Download Free Transitions To Animal Domestication In Southeast Asia Book in PDF and EPUB Free Download. You can read online Transitions To Animal Domestication In Southeast Asia and write the review.

The domestication of plants and animals was a pivotal process that significantly affected and shaped the trajectory of human history. However, this transition is still poorly understood in many parts of the world. For Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA), most researchers believe this transition was initialised by a migration of agricultural groups that spread from the Yangtze into MSEA following rivers and the coastline (Bellwood and Oxenham 2008; Matsumura et al. 2008; 2011). This hypothesis posits that these migrant populations brought domesticated crops and animals into the region and lived alongside indigenous hunter-gatherer groups. This thesis analyses the transition from hunting and gathering to domestication by comparing the taphonomic and taxonomic characteristics of the faunal assemblages of Cồn Cổ Ngựa (CCN) and Mán Bạc (MB) in northern Vietnam. Both sites were selected as they sit on either side of the presumed hunter-gatherer (CCN) and agricultural (MB) subsistence transition in Vietnam and have the potential to show crucial societal changes. Since CCN and MB are burial sites, human-animal interactions at the sites have the potential to portray the belief systems and ontology of the people. The ultimate aim was to contextualise CCN and MB within the framework of subsistence change in Southeast Asia (SEA) and determine how and whether human behaviour and human-animal relationships developed during this purported transitional phase in the Mid Holocene. A clear and perceivable shift in the faunal composition between CCN and MB was found, and this transition can be confidently attributed to the introduction of domesticated animals around 4,000 cal. BP to northern Vietnam. Further, results from the principal component analysis of sites throughout SEA showed that the relative proportions of certain taxa can be useful in separating hunter-gatherer and agricultural based sites across the region, as well as revealing outliers based on localised environments and/or choice. It was emphasised that this transition from 'hunting to farming' was by no means clear-cut. MB still had a strong emphasis on hunting wild taxa and fishing, and these permeable cultural-economic boundaries are also perceivable in other SEA sites. However, this thesis suggests that domestic and wild animals probably imbued different meanings and significance. Further, both CCN and MB were not 'simply middens' reflecting what people ate, rather they pose intriguing insights into human-animal interactions. At both sites there is a perceivable change in the engagement with animals and the landscape that, this thesis argues, involved a reconceptualising of this relationship.
Animals have played a fundamental role in shaping human history, and the study of their remains from archaeological sites - zooarchaeology - has gradually been emerging as a powerful discipline and crucible for forging an understanding of our past. This Handbook offers a cutting-edge, global compendium of zooarchaeology that seeks to provide a holistic view of the role played by animals in past human cultures. Case studies from across five continents explore ahuge range of human-animal interactions from an array of geographical, historical, and cultural contexts, and also illuminate the many approaches and methods adopted by different schools and traditions instudying these relationships.
Written during the height of the ecology movement, The Ecological Transition is a stunning interdisciplinary work. It combines anthropology, ecology, and sociology to formulate an understanding of cultural-environmental relationships. While anthropologists have been studying relationships between humans and the physical environment for a very long time, only in the last thirty years have questions inherent in these relationships broadened beyond description and classification. For example, the concept of environment has been extended beyond the physical into the social. Although anthropologists have adopted many of the concepts that Bennett develops in the book, he also feels that the central issues have never been addressed, either by anthropologists or by people in related disciplines. The most important of these, in Bennett's opinion, is the failure to incorporate a respect for the environmental in contemporary culture, which would allow making exceptions in certain human practices in order to protect the environment. His point in The Ecological Transition is that a basic cultural change in modern civilization is necessary to achieve this end. Both a theoretical and a practical work, The Ecological Transition emphasizes the relationships between human culture, the physical environment, technology, and social policy. The Ecological Transition is a challenging volume that makes us face the consequences of human behavior in the modern world: its effect on pollution, natural resources, agriculture, the economy, and population, to name just a few areas. The book remains a significant contribution to the discourse on social, economic, and environmental problems. While the book was first published in 1976, it still reads as a contemporary tract.
Historians of Southeast Asia have traditionally preferred to write about politics and culture rather than economics and ecology, and where they have looked at the history of agriculture they have most often concentrated on cash crops like sugar, coffee and rubber which figure prominently in colonial records. Smallholders and stockbreeders, by contrast, provides a rare survey of the history of foodcrop farming, and a unique look at the history of animal husbandry, in the Southeast Asian region. Thirteen contributions by an international selection of expert authors cover topics ranging from the agricultural economy of precolonial Java to the growth of rice production in the Mekong Delta since 1950, and from the breeding of horses on the northern borderlands of mainland Southeast Asia to the production and consumption of beef in the Philippines. New light is shed on old questions regarding the directions in which Southeast Asian agriculture has evolved over the centuries, and new questions raised regarding the cultural, demographic, economic and political determinants of farming practices. While the geographical and chronological scales of analysis vary, most chapters deal with relatively large areas and with developments over periods of 100 years or more. Besides production for subsistence, commercial aspects of livestock and foodcrop farming are also given due attention and prove to have been important in many parts of the region from very early periods. Smallholders and stockbreeders is essential reading for anyone interested in the agricultural history of Southeast Asia, whether for its own sake, or in connection with other aspects of regional history, or for purposes of comparison with other parts of the world.
The Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences address scientific topics of broad and current interest, cutting across the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Each year, four or five such colloquia are scheduled, typically two days in length and international in scope. Colloquia are organized by a member of the Academy, often with the assistance of an organizing committee, and feature presentations by leading scientists in the field and discussions with a hundred or more researchers with an interest in the topic. Colloquia presentations are recorded and posted on the National Academy of Sciences Sackler colloquia website and published on CD-ROM. These Colloquia are made possible by a generous gift from Mrs. Jill Sackler, in memory of her husband, Arthur M. Sackler.
We are living through a unique moment of transition, marked by a frenetic cycle of invention, construction, consumption and destruction. However, there is more to this transition than globalization, argue the authors of this unique and penetrating study. In their highly innovative approach, they set this transition against a broader evolutionary canvas, with the emphasis on the evolution of governance. The book's detailed analysis of five strategic sectors (economy, environment, health, information and security) points to an intricate and rapidly evolving interplay of geopolitical, cultural an.
Rapid and knowledge-based agricultural origins and plant domestication in the Neolithic Near East gave rise to Western civilizations.
This comprehensive volume provides teachers and students with broad and stimulating perspectives on Asian history and its place in world and Western history. Essays by over forty leading scholars suggest many new ways of incorporating Asian history, from ancient to modern times, into core curriculum history courses. Now featuring "Suggested Resources for Maps to Be Used in Conjunction with Asia in Western and World History".
In recent years the bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands has seen enormous progress. This new and exciting research is synthesised, contextualised and expanded upon in The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. The volume is divided into two broad sections, one dealing with mainland and island Southeast Asia, and a second section dealing with the Pacific islands. A multi-scalar approach is employed to the bio-social dimensions of Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands with contributions alternating between region and/or site specific scales of operation to the individual or personal scale. The more personal level of osteobiographies enriches the understanding of the lived experience in past communities. Including a number of contributions from sub-disciplinary approaches tangential to bioarchaeology the book provides a broad theoretical and methodological approach. Providing new information on the globally relevant topics of farming, population mobility, subsistence and health, no other volume provides such a range of coverage on these important themes.