Animal Husbandry and Hunting in the Central and Western Balkans Through Time

Contents

Foreword – Nemanja Markovic and Jelena Bulatovic ;
Eating well on Adriatic palaeoshore – marine and terrestrial molluscs as evidence of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene cuisine in Vlakno Cave, Dugi Otok, Croatia – Antonela Barbir, Nikola Vukosavljevic and Dario Vujevic ;
Bone technology from the Early Neolithic site of Bataševo (Serbia) – Selena Vitezovic, Nemanja Markovic and Velibor Katic ;
Herding and hunting at Vinca – Belo Brdo and Stubline during the Late Neolithic, a stable isotopic perspective – Rosalind E. Gillis, Jelena Bulatovic, Kristina Penezic, Miloš Spasic, Nenad N. Tasic and Cheryl A. Makarewicz ;
Fishing techniques in the Late Neolithic Vinca culture: fish hooks from the site of Vinca – Belo Brdo – Selena Vitezovic ;
Storage practice and problems with pests in the Late Neolithic: two examples from the central Balkans – Ðurda Obradovic ;
Images of half-persons, hybrids and surreal creatures in the Late Neolithic Vinca culture – Miloš Spasic ;
Animals in the Early Bronze Age funerary practice at Mokrin and Ostojicevo cemeteries, Serbia – Tamara Blagojevic ;
New data from the old records: zooarchaeological remains from Late Bronze and Early Iron Age sites in northern Bosnia – Jelena Bulatovic and Aleksandar Jašarevic ;
Zooarchaeological research of the Late La Tène period in Serbia: an overview of the data – Teodora Radišic ;
Animal husbandry and hunting in Roman provinces in Serbia: a zooarchaeological overview – Sonja Vukovic ;
The potential for horse breeding in the vicinity of Viminacium – Dimitrije Markovic and Ilija Dankovic ;
Fish consumption and trade in Early Byzantine Caricin Grad (Justiniana Prima) – Henriette Baron and Nemanja Markovic ;
Animal exploitation in the territory of present-day Serbia during the Medieval period: a zooarchaeological perspective – Teodora Mladenovic and Mladen Mladenovic

About the Author

Nemanja Markovic is a research associate at the Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade (Serbia), specialising in zooarchaeology. The focus of his research is the reconstruction of past human-animal relationships, mainly in the field of animal economy, strategies in animal husbandry and palaeopathology. ;

Jelena Bulatovic is a research associate at the Laboratory for Bioarchaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade (Serbia). Her research interests focus on zooarchaeology, studying human-animal interrelationships in the central and western Balkans from the Early Neolithic to the Late Iron Age.