Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks: The Archaeology of Animal Disease

by László Bartosiewicz and Erika Gál

The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides much valuable data concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or ritual activity. Animal palaeopathology can identify diseases in archaeozoological assemblages but little interest has been expressed in investigating and understanding the cultural aspects of the diseases identified. Such assemblages represent the cumulative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782971890
• ISBN13: 9781782971894
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.4"