Product Description: Eyewitness Books

Text and photographs highlight the evolutionary history of dogs, their domestication, anatomy, behavior, and breeds, and offer guidance on dog care and training.

Text and photographs present the anatomy, behavior, habitats, and other aspects of wild and domestic cats.

Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, this latest addition to the Smithsonian Handbook series is filled with in-depth descriptions, fascinating facts, and annotated profiles of more than five hundred species of animals throughout the world. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Luristan in Western Iran was largely inaccessible to foreigners until the early 1960s when a new road linking the Great Khorasan Road with Susiana or Elam was built by the Danish engineering firm, Kampsax, which invited a team of Danish archaeologists to explore the Luristan Bronze culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Humans have manipulated and changed the way of life of other mammals for thousands of years. This new second edition of A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals explores recent progress in understanding the origins of domestication and its spread, both biologically and culturally, across the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Text and photographs highlight the evolutionary history of dogs, their domestication, anatomy, behavior, and breeds, and offer guidance on dog care and training

Product Description: The 22 essays on various aspects of archaeozoology in this volume form a Festschrift dedicated to Juliet Clutton-Brock. Contributors include: J Altuna (Northern mammals in the southern Pyrenees during the Upper Pleistocene); L Chaix (Environment and ecology of the Mesolthic hunters inn the northern Alps); C S Churcher (Dogs from Ein Tirghi cemetery, Balat, Egypt); J Paters and A von den Driesch (Mesolithic fishing in Central Sudan); A M Muniz (Ancient Iberian fishing industries from an archaeozoological perspective); H Muller (Horse skeletons of the Bronze Age in central Europe); E Tchernov (From sedentism to domestication in the southern Levant); H Uerpmann (Proposal for a separate nomenclature of domestic animals); E S Wing (The realm between wild and domestic); P Wyrost (The fauna of ancient Poland)...read more

Looks at cats in history and art, discusses their relationship with people from ancient Egypt to the present, and describes various breeds (view table of contents)

A blend of natural and social history follows the role that the horse has played in shaping human progress from the evolution of the wild ass to the concept of using horses for labor and transportation.

Product Description: This text looks at human-animal interactions, especially some of the less well known aspects of the field. A number of studies in the book document some of the vast changes humankind has wrought upon the natural environment through the movement of various species of animals around the world...read more

Product Description: First published in 1988 and now available in paperback, a survey of the cat and its 7,000 year relationship with mankind, with illustrations drawn from the collections of the British and Natural History Museums.

Product Description: Papers from an important conference on zooarchaeology, reflecting state-of-the-art work on the study of human relationship to animals in ancient times.