Animal Secondary Products : Domestic Animal Exploitation in Prehistoric Europe, the near East and the Far East.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1: Introduction -- Part I: Other ways of thinking about secondary products -- 2A. Some reflections on the origins and intensification of dairying in the archaeological record -- 2B. And the last shall be first -- Part II: Zooarchaeology, artefacts, and secondary products -- 3A. The exploitation of domestic animal products from the Late Neolithic Age to the Early Bronze Age in the heartland of ancient China -- 3B. Assessing the archaeological data for wool-bearing sheep during the Middle to Late Neolithic at Bronocice, Poland -- 3C. Primary or Secondary Products?: The nature of Capra and Ovis exploitation within the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age levels at Portalón site (Atapuerca Hill, Burgos, Spain) -- Part III: Methodological issues in the application of zooarchaeological harvest profiles and other methods to the study of secondary products -- 4A. 'Crying over spilt milk': an evaluation of recent models, methods, and techniques on the origins of milking during the Neolithic of the Old World -- Appendix 4.1: Distribution of cattle (mandibles and loose teeth) by age classes (NISP) -- Appendix 4.2: Source data for corrected domestic cattle age percentage distributions (corrected NISP) displayed in Figure 4.2 -- Appendix 4.3: Distribution of ovicaprines (mandibles and loose teeth) by age classes (NISP) -- Appendix 4.4: Source data for corrected domestic Ovis and Capra and combined Ovis/Capra age percentage distributions (corrected NISP) displayed in Figure 4.3 -- Appendix 4.5: Distribution of pig remains (mandibles and loose teeth) by age classes (NISP) -- Appendix 4.6: Source data for corrected domestic pig age percentage distributions (corrected NISP) displayed in Figure 4.4 -- Appendix 4.7. Summary of pig data from Greenfield 1988a).

Appendix 4.8: Summary of cattle data from Greenfield (1988a) -- Appendix 4.9: Summary of ovicaprine data from Greenfield (1988a) -- Appendix 4.10: Summary of Ovis and Capra data -- 4B. The Secondary Products Revolution, mortality profiles, and practice of zooarchaeology -- 4C. The Second Revolution of Secondary Products: Do mortality profiles reflect herd management or specialised production? -- Part IV: Other indicators of secondary products exploitation -- 5A. ...Til the cows come home: the Secondary Products Revolution and Mesopotamian art in the 3rd millennium BCE -- 5B. The Secondary Products Revolution in light of textual evidence from Kültepe-Kanesh, central Turkey -- 5C. Herd mobility and secondary product exploitation in eastern Hungary during the Neolithic and Copper Age: strontium isotope analysis from zooarchaeological samples -- Part V: Zooarchaeological analysis of remains from Vinča-Belo Brdo -- 6A. The origins of secondary product exploitation and the zooarchaeology of the Late Neolithic, Eneolithic, and Middle Bronze Ages at Vinča-Belo Brdo, Serbia: the 1982 excavations -- Appendix 6.1: Distribution of body sections by taxon and period (NISP) -- Appendix 6.2: Frequency distribution of butchered bones by taxon and element (TNF) -- 6B. Harvest profile and dental cementum analysis of domestic taxa from Late Neolithic and Middle Bronze Age Vinča-Belo Brdo: some thoughts on subsistence and seasonality -- Appendix 6.3: Cementum analysis measurements used in the analysis.

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