The Walking Larder: Patterns of Domestication, Pastoralism and Predation(2 One World Archaeology S.)

This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September l986. The series is the result of an attempt to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds who could lend their own expertise to the discussions at the Congress. The series addresses world archaeology in its widest sense, investigating how people lived in the past and how and why changes took place, resulting in the forms of society and culture which exist today. This is an account of the varying interactions which can exist between humans and mammals, birds, fish and invertebrates, in any society, in any part of the world and in both the past and the present. The contributors aim to show that this symbiosis is often more than a simple matter of economic contract and necessity. It is not only the technical and detailed problems of how to recognize animal domestication that are presented here, but also a view of the actual experience and meaning of the relationships humans have with other species and their capacity or lack of capacity to live in close proximity and in mutual interdependence with other living creatures. "The walking larder" explores the diversity of the past as well as documenting a range of social and cultural attitudes which cannot be disentangled from an economic domestication process. It also looks at the present and aims to demonstrate that the intimate cultural relationships between humans and other animals continue to be modified and altered by the encroachment and innovations of different cultures.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Domestication: pet-keeping and animal domestication - a reappraisal, James Serpell; definitions of animal domestication, Sandor Bokonyi; defining domestication - a clarification, Pierre Ducos; some observations on modern domestication processes, Sytze Bottema; feral mammals of the Mediterranean Islands - documents of early domestication, Colin P.Groves; escaped domestic animals and the introduction of agriculture to Spain, Iain Davidson; evidences for the impact of traditional Spanish animal uses in parts of the New World, Elizabeth S.Wing; osteological evidence for the process of animal domestication, Richard H.Meadow; animal exploitation and the phazing of the transition from the palaeolithic to the neolithic, Hans-Peter Uerpmann; a two-part, two-stage model of domestication, Frank Hole; the domestic horse of the pre Ch'in period in China, Chow Ben-Shun; utilization of domestic animals in pre- and protohistoric India,P.K.Thomas. Part 2 Pastoralism: the origins of migration and animal husbandry in the steppes of eastern Europe, Valentin Pavlovich Shilov; pastoralism in Southwest Asia - the second millennium BC, Juris Zarins; farming to pastoralism - effects of climatic change in the Deccan, M.K.Dhavalikar; the changing role of reindeer in the life of the Sami, Pekka Aikio; the geographical distribution and function of sheep flock leaders - a cultural aspect of the man-domesticated animal relationship in southwestern Eurasia, Yutaka Tani; cattle in ancient North Africa, Juliet Clutton-Brock; the development of pastoralism in East Africa, Peter Robertshaw; cattle and cognition - aspects of Maasai practical reasoning, John G.Galaty; prehispanic pastoralism in northern Peru, Tom McGreevy; Andean pastoralism and Inca ideology, Gordon Brotherston; origins and development of Andean pastoralism - an overview of the last 6000 years, David L.Browman; are llama-herders in the south central Andes true pastoralists, Mario A.Rabey. Part 3 Predation: did large predators keep humans out of North America, Valerius Geist; hunting in pre-Columbian Panama - a diachronic perspective, Richard G.Cooke and Anthony J.Ranere; shells and settlement - European implications of oyster exploitation, Derek Sloan; effects of human predation and changing environment on some mollusc species on Tongatapu, Tonga, Dirk H.R.Spennemann; Rocky Cape revisited - new light on prehistoric Tasmanian fishing, Sarah M.Colley and Rhys Jones; mutualism between man and honeyguide, Alex Hooper; Cova Negra and Gorham's Cave - evidence of the place of birds in Mousterian communities, Anne Eastham.