TY - BOOK ID - 138375355 TI - Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks : The Archaeology of Animal Disease AU - Bartosiewicz, László. AU - Gal, Erika. PY - 2013 SN - 1782971963 1782971947 PB - Havertown : Oxbow Books, DB - UniCat KW - Animal remains (Archaeology) KW - Animals KW - Death KW - Eukaryota KW - Anthropology, Cultural KW - Diseases KW - Pathologic Processes KW - Anthropology KW - Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms KW - Social Sciences KW - Animal Diseases KW - Archaeology KW - Cadaver UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138375355 AB - 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 effects of human attitudes, decisions and influences regarding the keeping, care, treatment, neglect and exploitation of animals which resu ER -