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Cover 1 Evolution of a Taboo 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 List of Figures 12 Acknowledgments 16 1. The Power of Pigs 24 Cairo’s Pig Problem 24 The Power of Zooarchaeology 26 Pigs as a Lens into the Past 28 2. Animals in a Landscape 33 The Setting: Geography of the Near East 33 Dramatis Personae: Pigs and Wild Boar 35 Pig Domestication 39 Raising Pigs 43 “Pig Principles” and Types of Data 47 3. From Paleolithic Wild Boar to Neolithic Pigs 50 Reluctant Hunters of the Lower and Middle Paleolithic 51 The Upper Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic 53 The Road to Domestication: The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A 55 The Intensification of Wild Boar Hunting at Hallan Çemi 58 Taking Boars on Boats to Cyprus 60 Wild Boars in Rituals 60 Domestication by Two Pathways 64 First Domestic Pigs: The Early and Middle PPNB 65 4. Out of the Cradle 71 The (Delayed) Adoption of Pig Husbandry in the Near East 72 The First European Pigs 74 New Approaches in the Late Neolithic 75 Penning Pigs 75 Feasting on Pork 77 Pigs in Other Rituals 78 Pigs in the Chalcolithic: The Great Transformation 79 5. Urban Swine and Ritual Pigs in the Bronze Age 85 Plows, Wool, Warhorses (and Wardonkeys), and Wealth 87 Regional Di

Author

Max D. Price;

Published

2020

Language

EN