People and animals in holocene Africa

InhaltsverzeichnisForewords Editorial Board Preface Part I - Herding in Africa: New Data on its Development and Diffusion Louis Chaix: A Review of the History of Cattle in the Sudan throughout the Holocene Diane Gifford-Gonzalez: East African Pastoralism: Routes, Outcomes, Questions Mary Prendergast: Hunters and herders at the periphery: the spread of herding in eastern Africa Joséphine Lesur, François Briois, Beatrix Midant-Reynes & Michel Wuttmann: Domesticates and wild game in the Egyptian Western Desert at the end of the 5th millennium BC: the fauna from KS 43, Kharga Oasis Katie Manning: The first herders of the West African Sahel: inter-site comparative analysis of zooarchaeological data from the Lower Tilemsi Valley, Mali Part II - exploiting the faunal diversity in Africa since the last glacial Maximum Nadja Pöllath: Surviving in a profoundly changing landscape: The mid-Holocene archaeofaunal record from Abu Tabari (NW-Sudan) Graham Avery: Holocene avian remains, human behaviour and seasonality on the South African coast Souhila Merzoug: Faunal remains from Medjez II (Epipalaeolithic, Algeria): Evidence of ostrich consumption and interpretation of capsian subsistence behaviors Hélène Jousse: African mammals over the last 18 000 years: Sharing data on their distribution, identification and biometry