Economic archaeology is the study of how past peoples exploited animals and plants, using as evidence the remains of those animals and plants. The animal side is usually termed zooarchaeology, the plant side archaeobotany. What distinguishes them from other studies of ancient animals and plants is that their ultimate aim is to find out about human behaviour – the animal and plant remains are a means to this end. The 33 papers present a wide array of topics covering many areas of archaeological interest. Aspects of method and theory, animal bone identification, human palaeopathology, prehistoric animal utilisation in South America, and the study of dog cemeteries are covered. The long-running controversy over the milking of animals and the use of dairy products by humans is discussed as is the ecological impact of hunting by farmers, with studies from Serbia and Syria. For Britain, coverage extends from Mesolithic Star Carr, via the origins of agriculture and the farmers of Lismore Fields, through considerations of the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Outside Britain, papers discuss Neolithic subsistence in Cyprus and Croatia, Iron Age society in Spain, Medieval and post-medieval animal utilisation in northern Russia, and the claimed finding of a modern red deer skeleton in Egypt’s Eastern Desert. In exploring these themes, this volume celebrates the life and work of Tony Legge (zoo)archaeologist and teacher.

• Front Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Tony Legge – a bibliography
• PART I: BONE MAN: THE CAREER AND INFLUENCE OF TONY LEGGE
  • 1. Tony Legge (1939–2013)
  • 2. Tony Legge and continuing education in archaeology at the University of London 1974–2004
  • 3. ‘The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea …’ Tony Legge and the origins and spread of animal husbandry
  • 4. Reflections in a dustbin: froth flotation and origins of rice cultivation in South-east Asia
  • 5. How the pig parts got from Warrago to Web
  • 6. Tony Legge and the Blick Mead Project
• PART II: ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY
  • 7. Bone measurements and body weights from some Australian feral pigs
  • 8. A morphometric investigation of late Pleistocene and Holocene humeri of aoudad (Barbary sheep: Ammotragus lervia, Pallas 1777) recovered from the Haua Fteah, Cyrenaica, Libya
  • 9. Towards a metrical distinction between sheep and goat astragali
  • 10. Down among the dead men: wrong end epidemiology and its implications for palaeopathology
  • 11. A typology of dog deposition in archaeological contexts
  • 12. The boundaries of the world. The archaeology of humans and animals in southern South America
  • 13. Zooarchaeology in Britain: a partial history
• PART III: THE ZOOARCHAEOLOGY OF MILKING CONTROVERSY
  • 14. Calf mortality and milking: was Tony Legge right after all?
  • 15. Age-at-death in traditional Cypriot sheep and goat husbandry: implications for zooarchaeology
  • 16. A calf’s eye view of milk production: Tony Legge’s contribution to dairy husbandry studies
  • 17. Rethinking dairying in the Irish Iron Age: evidence from Dún Ailinne
  • 18. Answering zooarchaeological questions from the analysis of animal bones and organic pottery residues: a critical comparison
  • 19. Salt, cows, milk, and the earliest farmers of central Europe
• PART IV: FARMERS THAT HUNT
  • 20. Hunting by farmers: ecological implications
  • 21. Evaluating seasonality of birth in gazelles in the Middle Euphrates Valley: confirming ethological assumptions in the Abu Hureyra model
  • 22. Hunting and herding in the Middle Neolithic of central Serbia: a zooarchaeological analysis of Stragari-Šljivik, Serbia
• PART V: PREHISTORIC BRITAIN
  • 23. To the Upper Lake: Star Carr revisited – by birchbark canoe
  • 24. The first farmers in Britain and Ireland – whence and whither and how? Some reflections
  • 25. Integration of cereal cultivation and animal husbandry in the British Neolithic: the evidence of charred plant remains from timber buildings at Lismore Fields
  • 26. Taphonomy and cultural selection: Tony Legge and the Neolithic pits beside the Dorset Cursus
  • 27. Humans and animals in Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age Dorset
  • 28. Reconsideration of the ‘Mesolithic harpoon’ from Westward Ho!, Devon
• PART VI: CONTINENTAL EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN
  • 29. Revisiting the animal remains from Neolithic Kalavasos Tenta, Cyprus
  • 30. Neolithic subsistence at Vela Špilja on the island of Lošinj, Croatia
  • 31. Using faunal remains to evaluate social stratification in the Middle Iron Age: the fortified village of Mas Castellar de Pontós, north-east Iberian Peninsula
  • 32. The economy of medieval and post-medieval Vyborg, Russia, in its historical context
  • 33. Dear, oh deer! The adventures of compiling comparative collections: a cervid skeleton allegedly from Egypt’s Eastern Desert