World Archaeoprimatology: Interconnections of Humans and Nonhuman Primates in the Past

ISBN-13: 9781108487337 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 400 str.

Opis

The first compendium of archaeoprimatological studies, covering past relationships between humans and nonhuman primates across the world.

Recenzje

'… this publication will be of interest to a broad array of scholars - from primatologists to zoo-archeologists to cultural anthropologists. Because it collates an impressive amount of information on human-primate interfaces worldwide, it will serve as an incredible reference.' Erin P. Riley, The Quarterly Review Of Biology

Spis treści

Foreword Raymond Corbey; Acknowledgments; World Archaeoprimatology: An introduction Bernardo Urbani, Dionisios Youlatos and Andrzej T. Antczak; Part I. The Americas: 1. Monkeys in the city of gods: on the primate remains and representations in Teotihuacan, central Mexico Bernardo Urbani, Carlos Serrano-Sánchez, Raúl Valadez-Azúa, Damián Ruiz-Ramoni and Rubén Cabrera-Castro; 2. Monkeys and the ancient maya: Using biological markers and behavior for primate species identification in maya iconography Katherine E. South and Susan M. Ford; 3. Monkeys on the islands and coasts of paradise: pre-hispanic nonhuman primates in the circum-Caribbean region (AD 300-1500) Bernardo Urbani, Andrzej T. Antczak, M. Magdalena Antczak, Nicole R. Cannarozzi, Roger H. Colten, Kitty F. Emery, Raymundo A.C.F. Dijkhoff, Thomas A. Wake, Michelle J. LeFebvre, Lisabeth A. Carlson, William F. Keegan and Dennis C. Nieweg; 4. Mirroring desert societies with monkeys: Primates in the late Prehispanic and early Colonial North Coast of Peru, Central Andes (circa AD 800-1600) Jorge Gamboa; 5. Alterity, authority and ancestors: Exploring monkey images in moche iconography of north coast Peru Aleksa K. Alaica; 6. Representations of primates in petroglyphs of the Brazilian Amazonia Edithe Pereira and José de Sousa e Silva Júnior; 7. Nonhuman primates in the archaeological record of Northeastern Brazil: A case study in Pernambuco state Albérico N. de Queiroz, Olivia. A. de Carvalho and Roberta R. Pinto; 8. Lice in howler monkeys and the ancient americas: exploring the potential cost of being past pets or hunting games R. Florencia Quijano, Debora R. Gilles, Jan Štefka and Martín M. Kowalewski; Part II. Europe: 9. The place of nonhuman primates in ancient roman culture: narratives and practices Marco Vespa; 10. Minoan monkeys: Re-Examining the archaeoprimatological evidence Bernardo Urbani and Dionisios Youlatos; Part III. Africa: 1. Primate behavior in ancient Egypt: The iconography of baboons and other monkeys in the old kingdom Lydia Bashfor; 12. The nonhuman primate remains from the baboon catacomb at Saqqara in Egypt Douglas Brandon-Jones and Jaap Goudsmit; 13. Primates in South African rock art: The interconnections between humans and baboons Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu; 14. Citizens of the Savanna: An account of three million years of interaction between baboons and hominins in South Africa Shaw Badenhorst; 15. Lemur Hunting in madagascar's present and past: The case of Pachylemur Natalie Vasey and Laurie R. Godfrey; Part IV. Asia: 16. The monkey in Mesopotamia during the 3rd Millennium BCE Marcos Such-Gutiérrez; 17. The great monkey king: carvings of primates in Indian religious architecture Alexandra A. E. van der Geer; 18. The prehistoric nonhuman primate subfossil remains at sigiriya potana cave, Sri Lanka Michael A. Huffman, Charmalie A.D. Nahallage, Tharaka Ananda, Nelum Kanthilatha, Nimal Perera, Massimo Bardi and Gamini Adikari; 19. Monkey hunting in early to mid-Holocene Eastern Java (Indonesia) Noel Amano, Thomas Ingicco, Anne-Marie Moigne, Anne-Marie Sémah, Truman Simanjuntak and François Sémah; 20. Dispersion, speciation, evolution, and coexistence of East Asian Catarrhine Primates and humans in Yunnan, China Gang He, He Zhang, Haitao Wang, Xueping Ji, Songtao Guo, Baoguo Li, Rong Hou, Xiduo Hou and Ruliang Pan; 21. Fossil and archaeological remain records of Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata) Yuichiro Nishioka, Masanaru Takai, Hitomi Hongo and Tomoko Anezaki; Index.