The Origins and Development of African Livestock : Archaeology, Genetics, Linguistics, and Ethnography Book

	Preface	viii
	Acknowledgements	xi
	List of Illustrations	xii
	List of Tables	xvi
	List of Contributors	xix
Part 1	Introduction	1
1	The origins of African livestock: indigenous or imported?	2
2	A survey of ethnographic and linguistic evidence for the history of livestock in Africa	18
Part 2	Archaeology	29
3	Cattle, sheep, and goats south of the Sahara: an archaeozoological perspective	30
4	Bos africanus (Brehm)? Notes on the archaeozoology of the native cattle of Africa	38
5	Climate and cattle in North Africa: a first approximation	61
6	Livestock in Saharan Rock Art	87
7	African livestock remains from Saharan mortuary contexts	111
8	The origins and development of domesticated animals in arid West Africa	127
9	Domestic animals from archaeological sites in Central and west-central Africa	163
10	The origins and spread of domestic animals in East Africa	191
11	The origins of the domesticated animals of southern Africa	222
Part 3	Genetics and Breed Characterization	239
12	Genetics and the origins of African cattle	240
13	Two Eves for taurus? Bovine mitochondrial DNA and African cattle domestication	244
14	Molecular genetic analysis of African zeboid populations	251
15	Characterization of the Kuri cattle of Lake Chad using molecular genetic techniques	259
16	Characterizations of African cattle, sheep and goats and their contributions to archaeological understanding	269
17	The characterization of indigenous goat types of Ethiopia and Eritrea	280
18	Using morphobiometric indices to map goat resources in Africa	290
19	Indigenous domesticated dogs of southern Africa: an introduction	302
Part 4	Linguistics and Ethnography	313
20	African minor livestock species	314
21	A history of donkeys, wild asses and mules in Africa	339
22	A history of pigs in Africa	355
23	Did chickens go west?	368
24	Linguistic evidence for the prehistory of livestock in Sudan	449
25	Ethnographic perspectives on cattle management in semi-arid environments: a case study from Maasailand	462
26	The history of working animals in Africa	478
27	Bees and bee-keeping in Africa	503
	Index	527