Review of literature organized into ten themes : origins of earliest animaldomestication| domestication and dispersal of particular species| domesticatedanimals as agents in vegetation change| dairying and lactose intolerance| cattle complex
of Africa| the sacred cow of India| the pig complex of Melanesia| pastoralism| domesticatedanimals and human food| and domesticatedanimals and human diseases. - (DWG)
Brucellosis. Distribution in Man, domestic and wild animals.
Brucellosis has long been recognized by the FAO and WHO as one of the most insidious of chronic animal and human diseases, whose economic and sociomedical significance cannot be taken too seriously. In this book are new informations evaluated. Using
Domestication and the origins of agriculture : an appraisal
The first domestications of plants and animals, which occurred between 10 K years and 5 K years BP, and which underpinned the inception of agricultural systems, represent a major turning point in cultural and environmental history. New methods
of age estimation, notably by radiocarbon, have necessitated a reappraisal of the origins of agriculture in Mesoamerica, whilst biomolecular techniques are contributing to the identification of the wild relatives of domesticated plants and animals
Pastoral nomadism as an economic adaptation : a case study of the Pashtun pastoral nomads of Northeastern Afghanistan in Domesticated plants and animals of the Southwest Eurasian agro-pastoral culture complex. 2. Pastoralism.
Mutualism between Chenopodium, herd animals, and herders in the south central Andes
This paper offers a model for the domestication of quinoa, an Andean seed plant. The wild ancestor of this crop may have come into an early association with man by way of well-fertilized pastoral campsites where llamas were kept. - (DWG)
, gullying, and aeolian deflation. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal from Aboriginal cooking pits, exposed by this erosion, indicates that the current phase of incision of the valley floor has occurred since grazing of domesticanimals began about 140 years ago
Accelerated erosion by wind and water has taken place in arid western New South Wales since the introduction of domestic and feral herbivores by Europeans in the nineteenth century. This action led to widespread soil loss by sheetwash, rilling
domestication, la dynamique des populations, l'élevage, la chasse et l'utilisation économique de l'animal. Beaucoup de données portent sur les populations de l'URSS. - (FC)
on Sauer's most controversial work, with comments on animaldomestication in the Neotropics and West Africa. He also proposes to discuss and illustrate a major source of geographical information, language, which Sauer never used systematically.
Need for fodder to sustain domesticanimals has had an adverse impact on forests. Agricultural productivity is undergoing intensification to meet the population increases. - (D. W. Gade).
Domesticated cattle in the Sahara and their introduction into West Africa in The Sahara and the Nile. Quaternary environments and prehistoric occupation in northern Africa.
Afrique ; Afrique de l'Ouest ; Afrique du Nord ; Bovin ; Domestication ; Elevage ; Histoire de la géographie ; Préhistoire ; Sahara
Origins of plant domestication in the Sahara and the Nile Valley in The Sahara and the Nile. Quaternary environments and prehistoric occupation in northern Africa.
Afrique ; Domestication ; Histoire de la géographie ; Innovation technique ; Nil ; Plante cultivée ; Préhistoire ; Sahara
Historical records of the Qin (221-207 BC) and Han (207 BC-220AD) dynasties show that the present day bare hills and parched landscape of Gansu were forest-covered and grasslands supporting large herds of domesticanimals. It was due to over
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios from bones of contemporaneous Late Atlantic aurochs and early cattle in eastern Denmark are significantly different and provide information on the origin and feeding strategies of the earliest domestic
Examen critique du processus de domestication des animaux. L'A. passe en revue des écoles antérieures de pensée géographique sur la domestication. Perspective historique dans le cadre d'une politique narrative des idées sur l'unicité de l'homme, la