Archaeologies of Animal Movement. Animals on the Move

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Reindeer on the Move: An Introduction to the Archaeology of Animal Movement

   • Anna-Kaisa Salmi, Sirpa Niinimäki

   Pages 1-9

3. Scaling with Size in Horses May Have Implications for Reconstructing Activity from Entheseal Changes

   • Markku Niskanen, Marion Bindé

   Pages 11-19

4. Preliminary Reflections on Horse – Human Relationship in Early Medieval Poland on the Basis of History and Archaeozoology

   • Daniel Makowiecki, Wojciech Chudziak, Martyna Wiejacka

   Pages 21-32

5. Pathological Peculiarities Between Modern Ecotypes of Fennoscandian Reindeer: Injury Patterns and Implications for Domestication and Paleoecology Studies

   • Emily Hull, Hanna-Leena Puolakka, Mitchell Semeniuk

   Pages 33-43

6. Reindeer Physical Activity Patterns and Reconstruction of Feeding Behaviour: Implications for Reindeer Domestication and Human-Reindeer Interaction

   • Anna-Kaisa Salmi, Sirpa Niinimäki

   Pages 45-57

7. Feeding Patterns and Management of Dogs and Chickens from Ancient to Medieval Sites of Ukraine: A Stable Isotope Analysis

   • Aurora Grandal-d’Anglade, Leonid Gorobets, Ana García-Vázquez, Dmitry V. Ivanoff

   Pages 59-72

8. Complex Cattle Exchange in the Scandinavian Funnel Beaker Culture. The Case of Falbygden, Sweden

   • Karl-Göran Sjögren, Tony Axelsson, Maria Vretemark, David Meiggs, T. Douglas Price, Alistair Pike

   Pages 73-83

9. Animals, Households, and Communities in Bronze and Iron Age Central Eurasia

   • Tekla M. Schmaus

   Pages 85-93

10. Spread of Foreign Cattle in Lithuania in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods

    • Giedrė Piličiauskienė, Viktorija Micelicaitė

    Pages 95-104

11. Back Matter

    Pages 105-106

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This book presents the state-of-the art in the analysis of animal movements in the past and its implications for human societies. It also addresses the importance of animal activity and mobility for understanding past human societies and past human-animal relationships through cases studies from different periods and areas. It is the first book to focus on the archaeology of animal movement on different scales – from fine-tuned muscle movements of working animals to feeding behavior and to long-distance movements across landscapes and regions.

With the recent development of fine-tuned methodologies such as stable isotope analysis and physical activity assessment, the potential to understand how animals moved about in the past has increased substantially. While the chapters in the volume utilize a wide range of archaeological methods, they are all united by an emphasis on understanding animal activity and mobility patterns as something that has a major impact on human societies and human-animal relationships. Chapters in this volume show that animal activity patterns provide information on multiple aspects of human-animal relationships, including analysis of animal management practices, transhumance, global and regional trade networks, and animal domestication. This volume is of interest to scholars working in zooarchaeology and early human societies.

• Animal Domestication
• Animals, Households, and Communities in Bronze and Iron Age
• Animal Mobility in archaeology
• Cattle exchange in the Scandinavian Funnel Beaker Culture
• Domesticated animals in archaeology
• Environmental Archaeology
• Feeding patterns and management of chickens in archaeology
• Feeding patterns and management of dogs in archaeology
• Horse - human relationship in Early Medieval Poland
• Human-animal Relationships
• Human-animal Studies
• Modern ecotypes of Fennoscandian reindeer
• Multispecies Archaeology
• Paleopathology
• Physical Activity Reconstruction
• Reindeer physical activity patterns in archaeology
• Spread of foreign cattle in Lithuania
• Stable Isotope Analysis
• Stable isotope analysis of animals
• Zooarchaeology

• History, Culture and Communication Studies, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

  Anna-Kaisa Salmi, Sirpa Niinimäki

Anna-Kaisa Salmi is an Academy Research Fellow and Associate professor in Archaeology at the University of Oulu. Her research interests include northern human-animal relationships, the roles of animals in ritual and religion, and working animals. She currently leads ERC and Academy of Finland funded project on reindeer domestication.

Sirpa Niinimäki is a postdoctoral researcher in Archaeology at the University of Oulu. She is working on methodological aspect of skeletal activity markers as well as their utilization on archaeological material. Her study species include both human and reindeer skeleton.

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