The origins and spread of domestic animals in southwest Asia and Europe / edited by Sue Colledge, James Conolly, Keith Dobney, Katie Manning and Stephen Shennan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Origins and Spread of Stock-Keeping / Keith Dobney, Joris Peters, Sue Colledge, James Conolly, Katie Manning and Stephen Shennan -- 2. Archaeological, Morphological and Genetic Approaches to Pig Domestication / Linus Girdland-Flink and Greger Larson -- 3. Inferring Processes of Neolithic Gene-Culture Co-Evolution Using Genetic and Archaeological Data : The Case Of Lactase Persistence and Dairying / Pascale Gerbault, Ruth Bollongino, Joachim Burger and Mark G. Thomas -- 4. Diverse Strategies : Evaluating the Appearance and Spread of Domestic Caprines in the Southern Levant / Louise Martin and Yvonne Edwards -- 5. The Long and Winding Road : Ungulate Exploitation and Domestication in Early Neolithic Anatolia (10,000-7,000 Cal BC) / Joris Peters, Hijlke Buitenhuis, Gisela Grupe, Klaus Schmidt and Nadja Pöllath -- 6. Domestication Process and Domestic Ungulates : New Observations from Cyprus / Jean-Denis Vigne -- 7. Early Stock-keeping in Greece / Paul Halstead and Valasia Isaakidou -- 8. Early Farming Adaptations of the Northeast Adriatic Karst / Clive Bonsall, Dimitrij Mlekuž, László Bartosiewicz and Catriona Pickard -- 9. Early Domestic Animals in Italy, Istria, the Tyrrhenian Islands and Southern France / Peter Rowley-Conwy, Lionel Gourichon, Daniel Helmer and Jean-Denis Vigne -- 10. Domestication of Animals in the Iberian Peninsula / Maria Saña -- 11. Origin Of Stock-Keeping and Spread of Animal Exploitation Strategies in the Early and Middle Neolithic Of The North European Plain / Arkadiusz Marciniak -- 12. Animal Exploitation in the Early Neolithic of the Balkans and Central Europe / Katie Manning, Barbara Stopp, Sue Colledge, Sean Downey, James Conolly, Keith Dobney and Stephen Shennan -- 13. Zooarchaeological Data from Late Mesolithic and Neolithic Sites in Switzerland (ca. 6000-3500 cal BC) / Jörg Schibler -- 14. Early Neolithic Pastoral Traditions and Cultural Groups in Northern France / Rose-Marie Arbogast and Christian Jeunesse -- 15. North of the Frontier : Early Domestic Animals in Northern Europe / Peter Rowley-Conwy -- 16. On the Northwestern Fringes : Earlier Neolithic Subsistence in Britain and Ireland as Seen Through Faunal Remains and Stable Isotopes / Rick Schulting.

This volume tackles the fundamental and broad-scale questions concerning the spread of early animal herding from its origins in the Near East into Europe beginning in the mid-10th millennium BC. Original work by more than 30 leading international researchers synthesizes of our current knowledge about the origins and spread of animal domestication. In this comprehensive book, the zooarchaeological record and discussions of the evolution and development of Neolithic stock-keeping take center stage in the debate over the profound effects of the Neolithic revolution on both our biological and cultural evolution.