Pigs and Humans: 10,000 Years of Interaction

Contents......Page 16
List of figures......Page 19
List of tables......Page 27
List of authors......Page 29
Introduction......Page 32
PART A: EVOLUTION AND TAXONOMY......Page 44
1. Current views on taxonomy and zoogeography of the genus Sus......Page 46
2. Current views on Sus phylogeography and pig domestication as seen through modern mtDNA studies......Page 61
3. The molecular basis for phenotypic changes during pig domestication......Page 73
PART B: THE HISTORY OF PIG DOMESTICATION AND HUSBANDRY......Page 86
4. The transition from wild boar to domestic pig in Eurasia, illustrated by a tooth developmental defect and biometrical data......Page 88
5. Culture, ecology, and pigs from the 5th to the 3rd millennium BC around the Fertile Crescent......Page 114
6. Hunting or management? The status of Sus in the Jomon period in Japan......Page 140
7. Wild boar and domestic pigs in Mesolithic and Neolithic southern Scandinavia......Page 162
8. The economic role of Sus in early human fishing communities......Page 187
9. An investigation into the transition from forest dwelling pigs to farm animals in medieval Flanders, Belgium......Page 202
PART C: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES......Page 226
10. Age estimation of wild boar based on molariform mandibular tooth development and its application to seasonality at the Mesolithic site of Ringkloster, Denmark......Page 228
11. A statistical method for dealing with isolated teeth: ageing pig teeth from Hagoshrim, Israel......Page 249
12. Morphometric variation between populations of recent wild boar in Israel......Page 259
13. A dental microwear study of pig diet and management in Iron Age, Romano-British, Anglo-Scandinavian, and medieval contexts in England......Page 272
14. The histopathology of fluorotic dental enamel in wild boar and domestic pigs......Page 286
15. Economic and ecological reconstruction at the Classical site of Sagalassos, Turkey, using pig teeth......Page 300
PART D: ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES......Page 314
16. Ethnoarchaeology of pig husbandry in Sardinia and Corsica......Page 316
17. Traditional pig butchery by the Yali people of West Papua (Irian Jaya): an ethnographic and archaeozoological example......Page 339
18. Pigs in the New Guinea Highlands: an ethnographic example......Page 361
PART E: PIGS IN RITUAL AND ART......Page 388
19. Wild boar hunting in the Eastern Mediterranean from the 2nd to the 1st millennium BC......Page 390
20. The pig in medieval iconography......Page 404
D......Page 420
G......Page 421
M......Page 422
R......Page 423
Z......Page 424
References......Page 426