Camels in Asia and North Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on their Past and Present Significance

  • Robin Bendrey Department of Archaeology, University of Reading

Abstract

Review of Camels in Asia and North Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on their Past and Present Significance. Eva-Maria Knoll and Pamela Burger, eds. 2012. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press), Wien (Vienna). Pp. 298, 111 colour illustrations, 33 black-and-white illustrations. €45.00 (paperback). ISBN 9783700172444.

Author Biography

Robin Bendrey, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading
I am currently an AHRC post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, UK. My research interests are: later prehistoric western Eurasia; zooarchaeology; evolution of human-animal relationships; animal domestication; evolution of pastoral economies; pastoral nomadism; isotope geochemistry; palaeopathology; zooarchaeological methodology; ethnoarchaeology.

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Published
2014-11-13
How to Cite
Bendrey, R. (2014). Camels in Asia and North Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on their Past and Present Significance. Ethnobiology Letters, 5, 129-131. https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.5.2014.261
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Reviews