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• Preface / Martin K. Jones
• Introduction / Manon Savard, Marco Madella, and Carla Lancelotti
• Part I. Methodologies in Archaeobotany
• Sample-Size Estimation and Inter-Assemblage Quantification in Archaeobotany / Gyoung-Ah Lee
• Regional Exchanges in South Eastern Arabia During the Late Pre-Islamic Period : The Contribution of Phytolith Analysis of Ceramic Thin Sections from ed-Dur (Umm al-Qaiwain, UAE) / Luc Vrydaghs, Paul De Paepe, Kris Rutten, and Ernie Haerinck
• Examining Agriculture and Climate Change in Antiquity : Practical and Theoretical Considerations / Alexia Smith
• Part II. Case Studies in Archaeobotany and Vegetation History
• Swahili Food Production : An Interim Archaeotanical Report from Pemba Island, Tanzania, Seventh through Sixteen Centuries AD / Sarah C. Walshaw
• Plant-Food Subsistence in Context : An Example from Epipalaeolithic Southwest Anatolia / Danièle Martinoli
• Vegetation Proxy Data and Climate Reconstruction : Examples from West Asia / Naomi F. Miller
• The Significance of Prehistoric Weed Floras for the Reconstruction of Interrelations of Environment and Crop Husbandry Practices During the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages (1600-700 BC) in the Near East / Simone Riehl
• Part III. Social Archaeobotany
• Historical Aspects of Early Plant Cultivation in the Uplands of Eastern North America / Kristen J. Gremillion
• Routine Activities, Tertiary Refuse, and Labour Organisation : Social Inferences from Everyday Archaeobotany / Dorian Q. Fuller, Chris Stevens, and Meriel McClatchie
• Of Crops and Food : A Social Perspective on the Agricultural Tradition of the Harappan Civilisation / Marco Madella
• Anthracological Research in the South-Southeastern Brazilian Coast : Palaeoenvironment and Plant Exploitation of Sambaqui Moundbuilders / Rita Scheel-Ybert and Maria Dulce Gaspar
• Part IV. Genetics in Archaeobotany
• Rice of Asian Origin / Yo-Ichiro Sato
• A Review on the Research on the Origin of Six-Row Barley / Ken-ichi Tanno
• Maize Cob Phytoliths as Indicators of Genetics and Environmental Conditions / Linda Scott-Cummings.

Mangroves and rice, six-row brittle barley and einkorn wheat. Ancient crops for prehistoric people. What do they have in common? All tell us about the lives and cultures of long ago, as humans cultivated or collected these plants for food. Exploring these and other important plants used for millennia by humans, Ancient Plants and People presents a wide-angle view of the current state of archaeobotanical research, methods, and theories.Food has a public and private role, and it permeates the life of all people in a society. Food choice, production, and distribution probably represent the most complex indicators of social life, and thus a study of foods consumed by ancient peoples reveals many clues about their lifestyles. But in addition to yielding information about food production, distribution, preparation, and consumption, plant remains recovered from archaeological sites offer precious insights on past landscapes, human adaptation to climate change, and the relationship between human groups and their environment. Revealing important aspects of past human societies, these plant-driven insights widen the spectrum of information available to archaeologists as we seek to understand our history as a biological and cultural species.Often answers raise more questions. As a result, archaeobotanists are constantly pushed to reflect on the methodological and theoretical aspects of their discipline. The contributors discuss timely methodological issues and engage in debates on a wide range of topics from plant utilization in hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists to uses of ancient DNA. Ancient Plants and People provides a global perspective on archaeobotanical research, particularly on the sophisticated interplay between the use of plants and their social or environmental context.
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• Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World : An Introduction / Benjamin Arbuckle and Sue Ann McCarty
• Chapter 1. Animals and the State : The Role of Animals in State-Level Rituals in Mesoamerica / Nawa Sugiyama, Gilberto Pérez, Bernardo Rodríguez, Fabiola Torres, and Raúl Valadez
• Chapter 2. Entering the Underworld : Animal Offerings at the foot of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan / Leonardo López Luján, Ximena Chávez Balderas, Belem Zúñiga-Arellano, Alejandra Aguirre Molina, and Norma Valentín Maldonado
• Chapter 3. The Luxury of Variety : Animals and Social Distinction at the Wari site of Cerro Baúl, Southern Peru / Susan D. deFrance
• Chapter 4. Shifting Patterns of Maya Social Complexity Through Time : Preliminary Zooarchaeological Results From San Bartolo, Guatemala / Ashley E. Sharpe, William A. Saturno, and Kitty F. Emery
• Chapter 5. Animals as Symbols, Animals as Resources : The Elite Faunal Record in the Mississippian World / H. Edwin Jackson
• Chapter 6. The Parrots of Paquimé : a Look at the Role of Aviculture in Thirteenth Century Northern Mexico / Abigail Holeman
• Chapter 7. Ritual, Cuisine, and Commensal Politics at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico / Adam S. Watson
• Chapter 8. Pelts and Provisions : Faunal Remains and the Emergence of Social Inequality in Central Coastal California / Charlotte K. Sunseri
• Chapter 9. Animals and Social Change : A Case of the Middle Neolithic in the North European Plain / Arkadiusz Marciniak
• Chapter 10. Inequality and the Origins of Wool Production in Central Anatolia / Benjamin S. Arbuckle
• Chapter 11. Tracing Inequality from Assur to Kültepe/Kanesh : Merchants, Donkeys, and Clay Tablets / Levent Atici
• Chapter 12. Animal, Human, God : Pathways of Shang Animality and Divinity / Roderick Campbell
• Chapter 13. Inequality on the surface : Horses, power, and community in the Mongolian Bronze Age / Joshua Wright
• Chapter 14. Pythons, Pigs, and Political Process in the Hueda Kingdom, Benin, West African A.D. 1650-1727 / Neil L. Norman
• Chapter 15. "Tails" of Romanization : Animals and Inequality in the Roman Mediterranean Context / Michael MacKinnon
• Chapter 16. Wool Production, Wealth and Trade in Middle Saxon England / Pam J. Crabtree and Douglas V. Campana
• Chapter 17. The Rhetoric of Meat Apportionment : Evidence for Exclusion, Inclusion and Social Position in Medieval England / Naomi Sykes.

"Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities. The authors provide a global range of case studies from both New and Old World archaeology--a royal Aztec dog burial, the monumental horse tombs of Central Asia, and the ceremonial macaw cages of ancient Mexico among them. They explore the complex relationships between people and animals in social, economic, political, and ritual contexts, incorporating animal remains from archaeological sites with artifacts, texts, and iconography to develop their interpretations. Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World presents new data and interpretations that reveal the role of animals, their products, and their symbolism in structuring social inequalities in the ancient world. The volume will be of interest to archaeologists, especially zooarchaeologists, and classical scholars of pre-modern civilizations and societies"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Basis of Everything is Water: Understanding Risk in Markets
• 3. Harvesting Olives: Alpha and Beta Strategies
• 4. The Code of Hammurabi: Reducing Risk
• 5. Not What They Care About: Having Targets Other Than Returns
• 6. Predicting the Eclipse: Searching for a Black Swan and Windows of Doom
• 7. In the Stars: Lateral Thinking to Understand Markets
• 8. The Silk Road and its Secrets: Is There Really a Secret Sauce in Trading?
• 9. The Father of History: This Time is Sometimes Different in Markets
• 10. A Last Word to Conclude.
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What can the ancient world teach us about modern money markets? How can we use examples from the ancient world, philosophers and writers to better understand the markets? Just as historians such as Herodotus living in ancient Greece examined the past, can traders look to their past to learn something new? In this exciting new book, Saeed Amen looks to the ancient world to help us better understand modern money markets, demonstrating what ancient philosophers can teach us about trading markets today, and showing readers how to maximize their returns. Based on the rationale that if your primary objective is purely to make money from trading quickly, you can make decisions that perversely increase the likelihood of losing; this book demonstrates how successful trading can actually be achieved as a byproduct of good trading. Relating concepts from the ancient world, such as water and risk, diversified knowledge, Herodotus and historical bias to the modern world money markets, Amen demonstrates that by focusing on goals that go beyond making money, lateral thinking, targeting risk adjusted returns, and keeping drawdowns in check, investors will indirectly make more money in the long run. Investors might be fooled by randomness on occasion, but luck can never be derided as an important factor, which helps investors succeed. Instead repeated success in investing capital over an extended period seems to be less a product of randomness, but instead a product of a profound understanding of markets.
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• Introduction
• The hunting workshop and its publication / Oliver Grimm and Ulrich Schmölcke
• The transition from the last hunters to the first farmers
• From the Mesolithic to the Neolithic : hunting strategies in the south-western Baltic Sea area / Sönke Hartz and Ulrich Schmölcke
• Hunting in the long run : some chosen aspects (Stone age to medieval times)
• Prehistoric reindeer hunting in south-west Norway with emphasis on the period 1000 BC to AD 1000 : overview, retrospect and perspectives / Sveinung Bang-Andersen
• 'Industrial' reindeer hunting in the south Norwegian mountains in the Viking Age and Early Middle Ages / Svein Indrelid
• Late Upper and Late Palaeolithic reindeer hunting in the Ahrensburg tunnel valley : differences between Hamburgian and Ahrensburgian hunting tactics / Mara-Julia Weber
• A short history of seals and seal populations in northern European waters / Ulrich Schmölcke
• Seal hunting at the Baltic Sea coast : a case study from the Late Mesolithic and earliest Neolithic Neustadt in Holstein, Germany / Aikaterini Glykou
• Barbed points through time : a hunting weapon between ethnoarchaeological argumentation and functional analysis / Ulf Ickerodt
• Mesolithic Dogs / Peter Vang Petersen
• Dogs in the Danish Viking age : the Ladby ship and other finds / Bodil Holm Sørensen
• The evidence for hunting dogs from Mesolithic times up to the Viking age from a zoological point of view : a survey / Ulrich Schmölcke
• From Stone age hunting bow to medieval weapon of war : selected examples of bows and arrows in the North / Harm Paulsen

• Late Bronze age and Hallstatt/early la Tène hunting
• Late Bronze age hunting in middle Sweden : evidence from "King Bjorn's mound" in Håga and the surrounding settlements / Maria Vretemark
• Hunting in the Hallstatt and early la Tène cultures : the economic and social importance / Peter Trebsche
• Hunting in the Hallstatt period : the example of the Eberdingen-Hochdorf "princely grave" / Leif Hansen
• Roman and late ancient Germanic hunting
• Hunting in the Roman period / Thomas Fischer
• Late ancient Germanic hunting in Gaul based on selected archaeological examples / Christoph Reichmann
• Bear hunting in the 1st millennium AD
• Bear-skins in northern European burials and some remarks on other bear-related furnishings in the north and middle of Europe in the 1st millennium AD / Oliver Grimm
• Svá beitum vér bjórnuna a morkinni norđr : bear hunting and its ideological context (as a background for the interpretation of bear claws and other remains of bears in Germanic graves of the 1st millennium AD) / Sigmund Oehrl
• Hunting in the long run : noble and royal hunt (AD 350-1500)
• Wiesbaden-Breckenheim, Tissø and beyond : some methodological remarks on bones of wild animals from continental and southern Scandinavian centres of power in parts of the 1st millennium AD / Oliver Grimm
• Early falconry in central Europe on the basis of grave finds, with a discussion of the origin of falconry / Claus Dobiat
• Falconry in continental settlements as reflected by animal bones from the 6th to 12th centuries AD / Wietske Prummel
• The Vendel Period royal follower's grave at Swedish Rickeby as starting point for reflections about falconry in Northern Europe / Maria Vretemark
• Continental royal seats, royal hunting lodges and deer parks seen in the mirror of medieval written sources / Martina Giese.