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Documenta Archaeobiologiae [ISSN 1611-7484] Edited by Gisela Grupe, George McGlynn and Joris Peters

[ DOAB 3 ]

Feathers, grit and symbolism.

Birds and humans in the ancient Old and New Worlds.
Proceedings of the 5th Meeting of the ICAZ Bird Working Group in Munich [26.7.-28.7.2004].

Gisela Grupe and Joris Peters (Eds.)

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This third volume of the yearbook contains a list of authors, an English foreword, 29 articles, and guidelines for authors. The first part deals with bird remains from non-anthropogenic deposits and methodological problems [species of turkeys, finds from Sesselfels Cave, distribution of species]. Part 2 is dedicated to the scientific analysis of bird bones [isotope analysis, radiography, histomorphometry]. Part 3 examines birds in prehistoric contexts from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages in Chile, Mexico, Spain, France, Scotland, the Baltic States, Turkey, Japan, and Polynesia. The fourth part investigates birds in historic milieus, e.g. domestic geese and ducks in Great Britain [Roman-Medieval], cranes, finds from a Syrian mosque and the Russian Kama Basin [MA], Korean falconry [MA], birds in pre-Hispanic Mexican medicine, poultry-farming in Roman Pannonia, Dacia, and Moesia, bird remains from a Roman sanctuary at Mayence, vultures on the Iberian peninsula, the Hellenistic bird fauna of Thessaly, Swedish place-names with a connection to birds, and representations of birds on English misericords.

Content:	396 pages, 193 illustrations, 93 tables		Cover:	Hardcover
Text:	English, German		Size:	21,0 x 29,7 cm / DIN A4
Abstracts in other languages:	English, German		weight:	1.580 g
Keywords:	animal bones, bird, environment, fauna		Series:	Documenta Archaeobiologiae
			ISSN:	1611-7484
			ISBN-13:	978-3-89646-618-1
			ISBN-10:	3-89646-618-6
			Place of Publication:	Rahden/Westf.
Price:	74,80 € (fPr)		Date of Publication:	2005