Roger Blench, Kevin MacDonald

1: Introduction; 1: The origins of African livestock: indigenous or imported?; 2: A survey of ethnographic and linguistic evidence for the history of livestock in Africa; 2: Archaeology; 3: Cattle, sheep, and goats south of the Sahara: an archaeozoological perspective; 4: Bos africanus (Brehm)? Notes on the archaeozoology of the native cattle of Africa; 5: Climate and cattle in North Africa: a first approximation; 6: Livestock in Saharan Rock Art; 7: African livestock remains from Saharan mortuary contexts; 8: The origins and development of domesticated animals in arid West Africa; 9: Domestic animals from archaeological sites in Central and west-central Africa; 10: The origins and spread of domestic animals in East Africa; 11: The origins of the domesticated animals of southern Africa; 3: Genetics and Breed Characterization; 12: Genetics and the origins of African cattle; 13: Two Eves for taurusl Bovine mitochondrial DNA and African cattle domestication; 14: Molecular genetic analysis of African zeboid populations; 15: Characterization of the Kuri cattle of Lake Chad using molecular genetic techniques; 16: Characterizations of African cattle, sheep and goats and their contributions to archaeological understanding; 17: The characterization of indigenous goat types of Ethiopia and Eritrea; 18: Using morphobiometric indices to map goat resources in Africa; 19: Indigenous domesticated dogs of southern Africa: an introduction; 4: Linguistics and Ethnography; 20: African minor livestock species; 21: A history of donkeys, wild asses and mules in Africa; 22: A history of pigs in Africa; 23: Did chickens go west?; 24: Linguistic evidence for the prehistory of livestock in Sudan; 25: Ethnographic perspectives on cattle management in semi-arid environments: a case study from Maasailand; 26: The history of working animals in Africa; 27: Bees and bee-keeping in Africa