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History of domestic mammals in central and eastern Europe
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ISBN: 9630502518 Year: 1974 Publisher: Budapest : Akadémiai Kiadó,


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The donkey in human history : an archaeological perspective
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ISBN: 9780198749233 0198749236 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first animals that people ever rode, as well as the first used on a large-scale as beasts of burden. Associated with kingship and the gods in the ancient Near East, they have been (and in many places still are) a core technology for moving people and goods over both short and long distances, as well as a supplier of muscle power for threshing and grinding grain, pressing olives, raising water, ploughing fields, and pulling carts, to name just a few of the uses to which they have been put. Yet despite this, they remain one of the least studied, and most widely ignored, of all domestic animals, consigned to the margins of history like so many of those who still depend upon them. Spanning the globe and extending from the donkey's initial domestication up to the present, this book seeks to remedy this situation by using archaeological evidence, in combination with insights from history and anthropology, to resituate the donkey (and its hybrid offspring such as the mule) in the unfolding of human history, looking not just at what donkeys and mules did, but also at how people have thought about and understood them.

An osteology of some Maya mammals
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ISBN: 0873651995 9780873651998 Year: 1982 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press


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Livestock for sale : animal husbandry in a Roman frontier zone : the case study of the civitas Batavorum
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ISBN: 9789462980808 9462980802 9789048530281 9048530288 Year: 2016 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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The civitas Batavorum was a settlement on the north-western frontier of the Roman Empire, and it is now the site of numerous archaeological excavations. This book offers the most up-to-date look yet at what has been discovered, using the newest archaeological techniques, about the town and its economy, its military importance, and the religious and domestic buildings it held. It will be essential reading for anyone studying the economy of the Roman provincial countryside or the details of food supply for the Roman army and town.

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