Overview
- First book to address the archaeology of animal movement
- Addresses the effect of animal movement on human societies
- Presents the state-of-the art in the analysis of past animal movement and mobility
Part of the book series: Themes in Contemporary Archaeology (TCA)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- 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
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Archaeologies of Animal Movement. Animals on the Move
Editors: Anna-Kaisa Salmi, Sirpa Niinimäki
Series Title: Themes in Contemporary Archaeology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68744-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68743-4Published: 29 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-68746-5Published: 30 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-68744-1Published: 28 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2730-7441
Series E-ISSN: 2730-745X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 106
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology