Animals as Neighbors: The Past and Present of Commensal Animals

Index

171 index Abu hureyra, syria, 49, 83 Accipiter gentilis, 132 Ach Valley, germany, 42 Acomys cahirinus, 47, 81, 89 African giant rat, 81 agonistic-dominance hierarchy, 48 agriculture, emergence of, 45–52 Ain Jamman, Jordan, 50 Ain mallaha, eynan, 47, 48 antanthropic, 58, 60, 126, 132 Anthropocene,13–14, 19, 20, 37 Apodemus spp., 83, 84, 128 archaeological record, nature and importance of, 25, 31–35, 37–55, 90 Aristotle, 28 Arvicola terrestris, 53 auk, 40 aurochs, 8, 33, 44, 45 Australian swamp rat, 96 baboon. See monkey badger, 69, 73 banded mongoose, 74 bell, Thomas, 28, 29 beni hasan, egypt, 63 berry, sam, 28 biophilia hypothesis, 123–24, 129–30 biophilic urbanism, 131–32 biotic homogenization, 19, 177 birdfeeders, technology of, 121 black-backed jackal, 67 black Death, 92 bocheński, Zbigniew, 43 Bos primigenius, 8, 33, 44, 45 bracken fern, 16 buczacki, stefan, 28 buddleia, 23 bullfinch, 2 bushbuck, 41 Caerleon, 84 Caerwent, 54 Calluna vulgaris, 16 Canidae, 66–72 Canis aureus, 67 Canis latrans, 26, 67, 68, 74, 78, 126, 131 Canis lupus, 42, 43, 44–45, 47–8, 66–67, 118 Canis mesomelas, 67 cat, 2, 11, 26, 28, 57–66; domestication of, 61–62; on islands, 58–62, 62; mrs. Chippy, 57, 65; as pest control, 59; in roman britain, 55 Çatal hüyük, 10, 49, 83, 125 cattle, heck, 3 Cervus nippon, 41 character displacement, 60, 128, 140 n 16 Charlie lake Cave, british Columbia, 43–44, 44, 114 chimpanzee, 38, 119 China, emergence of agriculture, 51–52 Chlorocebus spp., 75 chough, 43 Chroicocephalus ridibundus, 112, 112 Clare, John, 28 coevolution, 117–28, 131 Columba livia. See Pigeon commensal: animals as wildlife, 133; definition, 1, 6, 127 commensalism: and conservation, 132; definition, 117–18; emergence in europe, 118; human attitude toward, 119 common rat: breeding, 94; diet of, 94; introduction to europe, 94 companion animal, 1, 31, 129; definition, 126 competitive exclusion, 128 coprolite, 33 corvid, 43, 54–55, 72, 113–15, 115, 118; in roman and medieval York, 114; in urban Finland, 114–15 Corvus brachyrhynchus, 113 Corvus corax, 43–44, 113; in roman britain, 54–55 Corvus corone, 54–55 Corvus monedula, 31–32, 43, 54–55, 108, 108, 115 Corvus moneduloides, 113 Corvus splendens, 113, 115 coyote, 26, 67, 74, 78, 126, 131 Cricetomys gambianus, 81 crow family. See Corvid Cryptosporidium, 107 172| Index Culpepper, Thomas, 88 cuscus, 74 cute response, 122–23 Dama dama, 19 Danebury hillfort, 84 deer: fallow, 19; sika, 41 Defoe, Daniel, 27, 28 Dick, Philip K., 129 Didelphis virginiana, 68 disturbance. See Perturbation DnA, 32, 35, 61, 67, 85, 88–89, 92, 96 dodo, 3 dog: domestic, 66–67; in natufian, 47–48 domestication, definition, 8, 135 n 17, 140 n 26 domiciliary, 8, 24, 31, 54, 87, 127–28 Domuz Tepe, Turkey, 50 Dorchester, 53, 54 dovecote, 103–4, 104 Driver, Jonathan, 43–44 Dublin, 95 Dürer, Albrecht, 28, 30 Echinococcus multilocularis, 71, 71 edificarian, 127 egypt, 18, 24, 38; Ancient, 63; Predynastic, 63–64, 88 el Wad, 47, 50 elliot-smith, grafton, 88 emanuel Point, Florida, wreck, 92 english house Condition survey, 94–95 environment: definition, 15; human, 13–24; modified , 45; “natural,” 14, 37; urban, 13, 21, 53, 68 epipaleolithic, 46–48 Erinaceus europaeus, 26, 28 ethnophoresy, 117 facilitation, 10 Falco peregrinus, 10, 11, 24, 106, 119 Falco rupicolus, 41 feces, 33 felids, affiliative behavior in zoos, 61 Felis catus, 58 feral, definition, 8 Fertile Crescent, definition, 46 fire, prehistoric control of, 40, 41 Five Points, manhattan, 92 food web, 11, 20, 133 fox, 26, 33, 42–43, 43, 67–72, 78; breeding, 68; diet of, 68; human attitudes toward, 70–71; hunting of, 69–70; in medieval towns, 72; in roman britain, 54; UK population of, 70. Fox, george, 54 frog, 55 Fumane cave, italy, 122 Fusihatchee, Alabama, 92 gazelle, 46 gehrt, stanley, 27, 74 Giardia, 107 golden jackal, 67 goshawk, 132 gowlett, John, 41 green corridor, 21 gross Primary Productivity (gPP), 20, 34 gull, 23, 40, 111–12; black-headed, 112, 112; herring , 4, 23, 40, 112; lesser black-backed, 23, 112; yellow-legged, 24, 112 gussage All saints, 84 Haliaeetus albicilla, 5, 6 hallan Çemi Tepesi, Turkey, 50 harris, stephen, 27 hayonim Cave and Terrace, 47 heather, 16 hedgehog, 26, 28 hendrix, Jimi, 110, 146 n 42 hinton, martin, 88 hominin, 37–41, 137 n 3 Homo habilis, 39 Homo rudolfensis, 39 horse, wild, 3 house mouse, 81, 82–89; breeding, 86; human tolerance of, 86–87; introduction...