Animal Husbandry in Ancient Israel: A Zooarchaeological Perspective on Livestock Exploitation, Herd Management and Economic Strategies

by Sasson,Aharon

• ISBN13: 9781845531799
• ISBN10: 1845531795
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-08-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Animal Husbandry in Ancient Israel demonstrates four diverse and innovative perspectives on the study of caprine and cattle husbandry in the Southern Levantine Bronze and Iron Age.

Author Biography

Aharon Sasson is a co-director of the San Diego Zooarchaeology Lab, in the Department of Birds and Mammals, San Diego Natural History Museum. He received his PhD in Zooarchaeology from Tel-Aviv University. His main research interests include animal husbandry in the Old World and New World, zooarchaeology, taphonomy and ancient economies.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
Lis of Tables	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
On the zooarchaeological perspective	p. 1
The zooarchaeological research of the Bronze and Iron Age in Israel: a brief overview	p. 2
What is this book about	p. 4
A Comparative Perspective: The Survival Subsistence Strategy-Animal Husbandry and Economy Strategies in the Bronze and Iron Age	p. 6
Introduction	p. 6
The survival subsistence strategy	p. 10
Subsistence strategies of pastoral-nomads	p. 14
'Homo sapiens sedentus' and 'Homo sapiens nomadus'	p. 23
Economic strategies of sedentists	p. 29
The survival subsistence strategy: summary and conclusions	p. 60
The Faunal Remains from Tel Beer-Sheba, Stratum II	p. 62
Methods	p. 62
Results and discussion	p. 63
A Spatial Perspective: Controlling Space and the Zooarchaeological Record-A GIS Spatial Analysis of Faunal Remains in Stratum II, Tel Beer-Sheba	p. 74
Methods and materials	p. 75
The nature of faunal remains in archaeological sites	p. 75
Results and discussion	p. 76
A Sagittal Perspective: Taphonomic Study of Tel Sites-A Case Study from Tel Beer-Sheba	p. 93
Introduction	p. 93
the death assemblage	p. 94
pre-depositional processes	p. 98
post-depositional processes	p. 100
the archaeological excavation	p. 103
Conclusions	p. 105
An Ethnographic Perspective: Animal Husbandry and Human Diet-Ethnographic Study of Premodern Villages in Mandatory Palestine	p. 108
Introduction	p. 108
The research area	p. 108
Methodology	p. 111
Discussion	p. 114
Conclusions	p. 117
Conclusions	p. 119
The six pillars of the survival subsistence strategy	p. 119
The survival subsistence strategy and the zooarchaeological perspective	p. 121
References	p. 124
Index	p. 146
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