People and Animals in Holocene Africa

Forewords Editorial BoardPreface Part I - Herding in Africa: New Data on its Development and Diffusion Louis Chaix: A Review of the History of Cattle in the Sudan throughout the HoloceneDiane Gifford-Gonzalez: East African Pastoralism: Routes, Outcomes, QuestionsMary Prendergast: Hunters and herders at the periphery: the spread of herding in eastern AfricaJoséphine Lesur, François Briois, Beatrix Midant-Reynes & Michel Wuttmann: Domesticates and wild game in the Egyptian Western Desert at the end of the 5th millennium BC: the fauna from KS 43, Kharga OasisKatie Manning: The first herders of the West African Sahel: inter-site comparative analysis of zooarchaeological data from the Lower Tilemsi Valley, MaliPart II - exploiting the faunal diversity in Africa since the last glacial Maximum Nadja Pöllath: Surviving in a profoundly changing landscape: The mid-Holocene archaeofaunal record from Abu Tabari (NW-Sudan)Graham Avery: Holocene avian remains, human behaviour and seasonality on the South African coastSouhila Merzoug: Faunal remains from Medjez II (Epipalaeolithic, Algeria): Evidence of ostrich consumption and interpretation of capsian subsistence behaviors Hélène Jousse: African mammals over the last 18 000 years: Sharing data on their distribution, identification and biometry

Helene Jousse is a PhD geologist and archaeozoologist, currently post-doctorating at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France). Specialised in the analyses of Holocene vertebrate African fauna, her main research focuses on the relation between human subsistence patterns, paleoenvironmental changes and past history of fauna (size, distribution). Josephine Lesur is a PhD archaeozoologist, Maitre de Conferences at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France) and member of the UMR 7209 - Archeozoologie, Archeobotanique : Societes, Pratiques et Environnements. Her research interests mainly concern the origin and diffusion of herding in the Horn of Africa and in Egypt as well as the exploitation of animal resources by humans during the Holocene in the same regions.