Pig hunting and husbandry in prehistoric Italy: A contribution to the domestication debate

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society

Volumn 72, Issue , 2006, Pages 193-227

  Albarella, Umberto ^a   Tagliacozzo, Antonio ^b   Dobney, Keith ^c   Rowley Conwy, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Soprintendenza al Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L Pigorini   (Italy)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848906721     PISSN: 0079497X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1017/s0079497x00000827     Document Type: Article

References (99)

1. Albarella, U. 1987-88. Sito CL1: Fauna. In Albore Livadie, C., Fedele, F., Albarella, A., Matteis, F. de, Esposito, E. & Federico, R. Ricerche sull'insediamento tardo-neolitico di Mulino S. Antonio (Avella), 84-99. Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche 41, 65-103
2. Albarella, U. 1999. The animal economy after the eruption of Avellino pumice: the case of La Starza (Avellino, Southern Italy). In C. Albore Livadie (ed.), L'eruzione vesuviana delle 'Pontici di Avellino' e la facies culturale di Palma Campania (bronzo antico), 317-30. Bari: Edipuglia
3. Albarella, U. 2002a. Size matters: how and why biometry is still important in zooarchaeology. In K. Dobney & T. O'Connor (eds), Bones and the Man: studies in honour of Don Brothwell, 51-62. Oxford: Oxbow Books
4. Albarella, U. 2002b. S. Giovanni, Laurino. Le ossa di animali. Unpublished report
5. Albarella, U. & Davis, S. 1996. Mammals and Birds from Launceston Castle, Cornwall: Decline in Status and the Rise of Agriculture. Circaea 12(1)
6. Albarella, U, Davis, S., Deny, C. & Rowley-Conwy, P. 2006. Pigs of the "Far West": the biometry of Sus from archaeological sites in Portugal. Anthropozoologica 40(2), 27-54
7. Albarella, U., Dobney, K. & Rowley-Conwy P. forthcoming a. Size and shape of the Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa), with a view to the reconstruction of its Holocene history. Mammal Review
8. Albarella, U., Manconi, F., Vigne, J.-D. & Rowley-Conwy, P. forthcoming b. The ethnoarchaeology of traditional pig husbandry in Sardinia and Corsica. In U. Albarella, K. Dobney A. Ervynck & P. Rowley-Conwy (eds), Pigs and Humans. 10,000 Years of Interactions. Oxford: University Press
9. Albarella, U., Manconi, F., Rowley-Conwy, P & Vigne, J.-D. 2006 Pigs of Sardinia and Corsica: a biometrical reevalution of their status and history. In U. Tecchiati & B. Sala (eds), Archaeological Studies in Honour of Alfredo Riedel, 285-302. Bolzano: Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano
10. Albarella, U & Payne, S. 2005. Neolithic pigs from Durrington Walls, Wiltshire, England: a biometrical database. Journal of Archaeological Science 32(4), 589-99
11. Ammerman, A.J. & Cavalli-Sforza, L.L. 1973. A population model for the diffusion of early farming. In C. Renfrew (ed.), The Explanation of Cultural Change, 343-57. London: Duckworth
12. Ammerman A. & Biagi, P. (eds). 2003. The Widening Harvest. The Neolithic Transition in Europe: Looking Forward, Looking Back. Boston: Archaeological Institute of America (Colloquia and Conference Paper 6)
13. Apollonio, M., Randi, E. & Toso, S. 1988. The systematics of the wild boar (Sus scrofa L.) in Italy. Bollettino Zoologico 3, 213-21
14. Bagolini, B. 1992. Il Neolitico nell'Italia settentrionale. In A. Guidi & M. Piperno (eds), Italia Preistorica, 274-305. Bari: La Terza
15. Bailey, J.F., Richards, M.B., Macaulay, V.A., Colson, I.B., James, I.T., Bradley, D.G., Hedges, R.E. & Sykes, B.C. 1996. Ancient DNA suggests a recent expansion of European cattle from a diverse wild progenitor species. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B263, 1467-73
16. Barfield, L.H. & Bagolini, B. 1976. The Excavations on the Rocca di Rivoli 1963-68. Verona: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona (II serie) Sezione Scienze dell'Uomo
17. Barker, G. 1975. Stock economy. In R.R. Holloway, Buccino: the Early Bronze Age village of Tufariello, 59-72. Journal of Field Archaeology 2, 11-81
18. Barker, G. 1981a. The animal bones, site catchment and discussion of the prehistoric economy. In L.H. Barfield, G.W.W. Barker, J.T. Chesterman, J.P. Pals & A. Voorrips, Excavations at Monte Covolo, Villanuova sul Clisi, Brescia (1972-73), 41-73. Brescia: Annali del Museo di Gavardo, N.13 - Anni 1977-79
19. Barker, G. 1981b. Landscape and Society: prehistoric central Italy. London: Academic Press
20. Barker, G. 1985. Prehistoric Farming in Europe. Cambridge: University Press
21. Barker, G. & Stoddart, S. 1994. The Bronze Age of central Italy: c. 2000-900 BC. In C. Mathers & S. Stoddart (eds), Development and Decline in the Mediterranean Bronze Age, 145-65. Sheffield: J.R. Collis
22. Bell, M. & Walker, M.J.C. 1992. Late Quaternary Environmental Change. Physical and Human Perspectives. Harlow: Longman
23. Benecke, N. 1994. Der Mensch und seine Haustiere. Die Geschichte einer jahrtausendealten Beziehung. Unpublished Thesis, University of Stuttgart
24. Biagi, P. 2003. A review of the late Mesolithic in Italy and its implications for the Neolithic transition. In Ammerman & Biagi (eds) 2003, 133-56
25. Biagi, P & Spataro, M. 2001. Plotting the evidence: some aspects of the radiocarbon chronology of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Mediterranean Basin. Atti della Societa' per la Preistoria e Protostoria della Regione Friuli Venezia-Giulia 12, 15-54
26. Bietti, A. 1976-77. The excavations 1955-59 in the Upper Paleolithic deposit of Palidoro (Rome, Italy): a brief general introduction. Quaternaria 19, 149-55
27. Binder, D. & Maggi, R. 2001. Le Néolithique ancien de l'arc liguro-provençal. Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française 98(3), 411-22
28. Bogucki, P.I. 1988. Forest Farmers and Stockherders. Cambridge: University Press
29. Bökönyi, S. 1983. Animal bones from test excavations of early Neolithic ditched villages on the Tavoliere, South Italy. In S. Cassano & A. Manfredini (eds), Studi sul Neolitico del Tavoliere della Puglia, 237-49. Oxford: British Archaeological Report S160
30. Bordaz, J. 1973. Current research in the Neolithic of south central Turkey: Suberde, Erbaba and their chronological implications. American Journal of Archaeology 77(3), 282-8
31. Cassoli, P.F. 1976-77. Upper Palaeolithic fauna at Palidoro (Rome): 1955 excavations. Quaternaria 19, 187-96
32. Cassoli, P.F & Tagliacozzo, A. 1993. 'La Marmotta', Anguillara Sabazia (RM). Scavi 1989. Analisi preliminare delle faune. Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana 84, 323-37
33. Cassoli, P.F. & Tagliacozzo, A. 1994. I macromammiferi tardopleistocenici delle Arene Candide (Savona, Italia): considerazioni paleontologiche e archeozoologiche. Quaternaria Nova 4, 101-26
34. Cassoli, P.F. & Tagliacozzo, A. 1995. I reperti ossei faunistici dell'area della piroga. In M.A. Fugazzola-Delpino & M. Mineo. La piroga neolitica del Lago di Bracciano ('La Marmotta I'), 267-88. Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana 86 ns 4, 197-288
35. Cavallo, C. 2000. Animals in the Steppe: a zooarchaeological analysis of Later Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria. Oxford: British Archaeological Report S891
36. Cazzella, A. & Moscoloni, M. (eds). 1999. Conelle di Arcevia. Un insediamento eneolitico nelle Marche. I. Lo scavo, la ceramica, i manufatti metallici, i resti organici. Roma: Gangemi Editore
37. Clutton-Brock, J. 1987. A Natural History of Domesticated Animals. London: British Museum (Natural History)
38. Costantini, L. 1989. Plant exploitation at Grotta dell'Uzzo, Sicily: new evidence for the transition from Mesolithic to Neolithic subsistence in southern Europe. In D.R. Harris & G.C. Hillman (eds), Foraging and Farming. The Evolution of Plant Exploitation, 197-206. London: Unwin Hyman
39. Davis, S. 1981. The effects of temperature change and domestication on the body size of late Pleistocene to Holocene mammals of Israel. Palaeobiology 7, 101-14
40. Davis, S. 1987. The Archaeology of Animals. London: Batsford
41. Davis, S. 2006. Faunal Remains from Alcáçova de Santarém, Portugal. Lisboa: Instituto Português de Arqueologia, Trabalhos de Arqueologia 43
42. Dawson, A. 1998. Reflections on the interactions between people and pigs. In Nelson (ed.) 1998, 5-10
43. De Beaux, O & Festa, E. 1927. La ricomparsa del cinghiale nell'Italia settentrionale-occidentale. Memorie della Societa' Italiana di Scienze Naturali 9(3), 266-324
44. Döhle, H.-J. 1997. Husbandry and hunting in the Neolithic of Central Germany. Anthropozoologica 25-26, 441-8
45. Driesch, A. von den. 1976. A Guide to the Measurement of Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University, Peaboby Museum Bulletin 1
46. Ducos, P. 1968. L'Origine des Animaux Domestiques en Palestine. Bordeux: Delmas
47. Ervynck, A., Dobney, K., Hongo, H. & Meadow, R. 2002. Born free! New evidence for the status of pigs from Cayönü Tepesi, Eastern Anatolia. Paléorient 27(2), 47-73
48. Flannery, K.V. 1983. Early pig domestication in the Fertile Crescent: A retrospective look. In T.C. Young, P.E.L. Smith & P. Mortensen (eds), The Hilly Flanks. Essays on the Prehistory of Southwest Asia, 163-88. Chicago: Oriental Institute, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 36, University of Chicago
49. Fugazzola-Delpino, M.A. & Mineo, M. 1995. La piroga neolitica del Lago di Bracciano ('La Marmotta I'). Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana 86 ns 4, 197-288
50. Giuffra, E., Kijas, J.M.H., Amager, V., Carlborg, Ö, Jeon, J.-T. & Andersson, L.. 2000. The origin of the domestic pig: independent domestication and subsequent-introgression. Genetics 154, 1785-91
51. Grant, A. 1982. The use of tooth wear as a guide to the age of domestic ungulates. In B. Wilson, C. Grigson & S. Payne (eds), Ageing and Sexing Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites, 91-108. Oxford: British Archaeological Report 109
52. Groves, C. 1981. Ancestors for the Pigs: taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Sus. Canberra: Technical Bulletin 3, Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University
53. Guidi, A. & Piperno, M. (eds). 1992. Italia Preistorica. Bari: La Terza
54. Halstead, P. 1996. The development of agriculture and pastoralism in Greece: when, how, who and what? In D. Harris (ed.), The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia, 296-309. London: University College London Press
55. Hongo, H. & R. Meadow. 1998. Pig exploitation at Neolithic Çayönü Tepesi (Southeastern Anatolia). In Nelson (ed.) 1998, 77-98
56. Jarman, M.R. 1971. Culture and economy in the northern Italian Neolithic. World Archaeology 1.2 (3), 255-65
57. Jarman, M.R. 1975. The fauna and economy of Fiave'. Preistoria Alpina 11, 65-73
58. Jarman, M.R. 1976. Rivoli: the Fauna. In L.H. Barfield & B. Bagolini, The Excavations on the Rocca di Rivoli 1963-68, 159-73. Verona: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona (II serie) Sezione Scienze dell'Uomo
59. Jing, Y. & Flad, R.K. 2002. Pig domestication in ancient China. Antiquity 76, 723-32
60. Kusatman, B. 1991. The Origins of Pig Domestication with Particular Reference to the Near East. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of London
61. Larson, G, Dobney, K, Albarella, U., Fang, M., Matisoo-Smith, E., Robins, J., Lowden, S., Finlayson, H., Brand, T., Willerslev, E., Rowley-Conwy, P., Andersson, L. & Cooper, A. 2005. Worldwide phylogeography of wild boar reveals multiple centres of pig domestication. Science 307, 1618-21
62. Magnell, O. 2004. The body size of wild boar during the Mesolithic in southern Scandinavia. Acta Theriologica 49(1), 113-30
63. Meadow, R. 1999. The use of size index scaling techniques for research on archaeozoological collections from the Middle East. In C. Becker, H. Manhart, J. Peters & J. Schibler (eds), Historia Animalium ex Ossibus. Festschrift für Angela von den Driesch, 285-300. Rahden/Westf: Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH
64. Nelson, S. (ed.). 1998. Ancestors for the Pigs: pigs in prehistory. Philadelphia. Mass.: MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology 15
65. Nemeth, D.J. 1998. Privy-pigs in prehistory? A Korean analog for Neolithic Chinese subsistence practices. In Nelson (ed.) 1998, 11-25
66. Nowak, R.M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. Volume II. Baltimore & London: John Hopkins University Press
67. Payne, S. & Bull, G. 1988. Components of variation in measurements of pig bones and teeth, and the use of measurements to distinguish wild from domestic pig remains. ArchaeoZoologia 2(1.2), 27-66
68. Peters, J., Helmer, D., Driesch, A. von den & Saña Seguí, M. 1999. Early animal husbandry in the Northern Levant. Paléorient 25(2), 27-47
69. Piper, L. 2001. Born to be wild? The problem with pigs in the North Italian Neolithic: A re-analysis of the animal bone assemblage from Rocca di Rivoli. Unpublished BA dissertation, University of Birmingham
70. Price, T.D. 2000. The introduction of farming in northern Europe. In T.D. Price (ed.). Europe's First Farmers, 260-300. Cambridge: University Press
71. Price, T.D., Gebauer, A.B. & Keeley, L.H. 1992. The spread of farming into Europe north of the Alps. In T.D. Price & A.B. Gebauer (eds), Last Hunters, First Farmers, 97-116. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press
72. Redding, R. & Rosenberg, M. 1998. Ancestral pigs: a New (Guinea) model for pig domestication in the Middle East. In Nelson (ed.) 1998, 65-76
73. Riedel, A. 1976a. La fauna del villaggio preistorico di Ledro. Archeo-zoologia e paleo-economia. Studi Trentini di Scienze Naturali 53(5B), 1-120
74. Riedel, A. 1976b. La fauna del villaggio preistorico di Barche di Solferino. Trieste: Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale - Trieste, Vol. 29-Fasc. 4, N.12
75. Riedel, A. 1976c. La fauna del villaggio preistorico di Isolone della Prevaldesca. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona 2, 355-414
76. Riedel, A. 1988. The Neolithic Animal Bone Deposit of Cornuda (Treviso). Ferrara; Universita' degli Studi
77. Riedel, A. 1992. The Bronze Age animal bone deposit of Nogarole Rocca I Camponi (Verona). Padusa 28 ns, 87-104
78. Rosman, A. & Rubel, P.G. 1989. Stalking the wild pig: hunting and horticulture in Papua New Guinea. In S. Kent (ed.), Farmers as Hunters, 27-36. Cambridge: University Press
79. Rowley-Conwy, P. 1997. The animal bones from Arene Candide. Final report. In R. Maggi (ed.), Arene Candide: functional and environmental assessment of the Holocene sequence, 153-277. Rome: Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, ns 5
80. Rowley-Conwy, P. 2003. Early domestic animals in Europe: imported or locally domesticated? In Ammerman & Biagi (eds) 2003, 99-117
81. Simpson, G.G., Roe, A. & Lewontin, R. C. 1960. Quantitative Zoology. New York: Harcourt Brace
82. Siracusano, G. 1991. Prima valutazione delle misurazioni osteometriche dei resti faunistici di Coppa Nevigata. Scienze dell'Antichita'. Storia, Archeologia, Autropologia 5, 265-89
83. Skeates, R. 1996. Towards an absolute chronology for the Copper Age in central Italy: a note based on the Conelle site and culture. Papers of the British School at Rome 64, 273-9
84. Skeates, R. 2003. Radiocarbon dating and interpretations of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Italy. In Ammerman & Biagi (eds) 2003, 157-87
85. Sorrentino, C. 1999. Faune terrestri. In S. Tine' (ed.), Il Neolitico nella Caverna delle Arene Candide (Scavi 1972-1977), 66-108. Bordighera: Istituto Internazionale Studi Liguri, Collezione di Monografie Preistoriche ed Archeologiche 10
86. Tagliacozzo, A. 1992. I mammiferi dei giacimenti pre- e protostorici italiani. Un inquadramento paleontologico e archeozoologico. In A. Guidi & M. Piperno (eds), Italia Preistorica, 68-102. Bari: La Terza
87. Tagliacozzo, A. 1993. Archeozoologia della Grotta dell'Uzzo, Sicilia. Roma: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato vol. 84 ns 2
88. Tagliacozzo, A. 1997. Dalla caccia alla pastorizia: la domesticazione animale. Le modificazioni economiche tra il mesolitico ed il neolitico e l'introduzione degli animali domestici in Sicilia. In Prima Sicilia: alle origini della societa' siciliana, 227-47. Palermo: Regione Siciliana
89. Tagliacozzo, A. 2000. I dati archeozoologici, strategie di allevamento e caccia a Grotta della Madonna di Praia a Mare (CS), nel quadro del Neolitico, Eneolitico e Eta' del Bronzo dell'Italia meridionale. In La grotta del Santuario della Madonna (Praia a Mare - Cosenza). Livelli olocenici, 101-50. Roma: Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana
90. Tagliacozzo, A. & Curci, A. 2001. I dati archeozoologici: allevamento e caccia nell'eta' del bronzo. In F. Trucco & L. Vagnetti (eds), Torre Mordillo 1987-1990. Le relazione egee di una comunita' preistorica nella Sibaritide, 347-418. Roma: CNR - Istituto per gli Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici
91. Thorpe, I.J. 1996. The Origins of Agriculture in Europe. London: Routledge
92. Troy, C.S., MacHugh, D.E., Bailey, J.F., Magee, D.A., Loftus, R.T., Cunningham, P., Chamberlain, A.T., Sykes, B.C. & Bradley, D.G. 2001. Genetic evidence for Near-Eastern origins of European cattle. Nature 410, 1088-91
93. Trump, D.H. 1960-61. Scavi a La Starza, Ariano Irpino. Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana 13, 221-31
94. e Suppl. Gallia
95. Vigne, J.-D. 2000. Les Débuts Néolithiques de l'Élevage des Ongulés au Proche Orient et en Mé diterranée: acquis récents et questions. In J. Guilaine (ed.), Premiers Paysans du Monde: Naissances des Agricultures, 143-68. Paris: Editions Errance
96. Vigne, J.-D. & Buitenhuis, H. 1999. Les premiers pas de la domestication animale à l'Ouest de l'Euphrate: Chypre et l'Anatolie centrale. Paléorient 25, 49-62
97. Wilkens, B. 1999. I resti faunistici. In A. Cazzella & M. Moscoloni (eds), Conelle di Arcevia. Un insediamento eneolitico nelle Marche. I. Lo scavo, la ceramica, i manufatti metallici, i resti organici, 213-59. Roma: Gangemi Editore
98. Zeder, M., Bradley, D., Emshwiller, E. & Smith B. (eds). 2006. Documenting Domestication: new genetic and archaeological paradigms. Berkeley: University of California Press
99. Zvelebil, M. 1995. Hunting, gathering, or husbandry? Management of food resources by the late Mesolithic communities of temperate Europe. In D.V. Campana (ed.), Before Farming: hunther-gatherer society and subsistence, 79-104. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: MASCA Research Papers in Science and Archaeology, Supplement to Volume 12