Natural History of Domesticated Mammals Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	The meat supply of hunter-gatherers	10
Sect. I	Animal partners	25
2	The process of domestication	29
3	Selective breeding and the definition of a breed	40
4	Dogs	49
5	The origins of domestic livestock - why bother to farm?	62
6	Sheep and goats	69
7	Cattle	81
8	Pigs	91
9	Horses	100
10	Asses, mules, and hinnies	114
Sect. II	Exploited captives	129
11	Cats	133
12	Elephants	141
13	Camels and llamas	151
14	Reindeer	160
15	Asiatic cattle, excluding the zebu	167
Sect. III	Small mammals	177
16	The rabbit and the ferret	179
17	Rodents and carnivores exploited for food and fur	185
Sect. IV	Experimental domestication and ranching, past and present	193
18	The cheetah, aquatic mammals, deer, and bovids	199
	Conclusions: The geography of domestication	211
App. I	Nomenclature of the domestic mammals	219
App. II	Climatic sequences and archaeological divisions of the Quaternary Period	224
	References and publications for further reading	227
	Index	235