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‘Ain Ghazal, 55–56
‘Ain Mallaha, 31–32
‘Apiru, 119–20
Aelian, 135
Akitu festival, 134
Akrotiri-Aetokremnos, 37
Alevi Muslims, 189–90
Amarna, 80–82
Amazigh, 178
Amsterdam, 190
Animal Rights, 21–22, 136, 182–83
Anthony, Saint, 170–71
Antiochus IV, 155
Arabs
Early history, 172
Origins of Islam, 172
Arslantepe, 57
Arsur, 177–78
Ashkelon, 125–26
Asiab, Teppeh, 39
Assyria, 134
Augustine of Hippo, 168
Ayios Konstantinos, 148
Baal, 87
Benedictions of Labarna, The, 84
Bet Yerah, Tel, 73–74
Beth Shean, 127
Beydar, Tell, 152
Bible
Writing of, 117, 118–19, 122, 130–33
Bigotry
Hate crimes involving pork, 6, 135–36, 160–61, 163, 168
Judensau, 186
Against Muslims, 163–64, 186, 188
Trump, Donald, 163–64
Against Christians, 185–89
Book of the Dead, 88–89
Brak, Tell, 69
Caledonian Boar, 149–50
Carthage, 136
Çatalhöyük, 55–56
Chalcolithic, 56
Chassidic, 162
Choga Mami, 55–56
Pig–keeping and, 177
Chthonic rituals, 85–86, 101–2
Circumcision, 129, 164, 165, 173–74, 188
Class,
Development of, 56–58
Pig–keeping and, 69–70, 72, 75–76, 106–7, 124, 151–52, 166
Record–keeping and, 77–78
Archaeological bias and, 82
Columella, 146–47
As pathway to domestication, 41
Complex societies, 48–49, 56–57
Cyprus, 37
Dendara, 72
Dental calculus, 53
Diener, Paul, 106–7
Disgust, 92–93, 100, 109–10, 189–90
DNA, see “Genetics”
Dogs, 27–28, 32, 36, 84, 85, 87, 89–90, 169
Domestication
Definition, 16
Features of domestic animals, 17–18, 34
Pig domestication, 18–19, 34–35, 41–42
China, 19–20
Zooarchaeological study of, 20, 43–44
Appearance of first domestic pigs, 44–45
Domuztepe, 55–56
Douglas, Mary, 103–4
Ebla, 75
Egalitarianism, 48–49, 55, 120–21
Ekron (Tel Miqne), 125–26
Elephantine, 123–24
Elephants, 150–51
Eloquent Peasant, The, 78–79
Elunum (festival), 83
Ephesus, 151–52
Epistle of Barnabas, 167
Equids, 65
Eros, 148
Erotic symbolism, 84
Erymanthian Boar, 149–50
Ethnicity
Archaeological detection of, 125
Eumaeus, 148–49
Europe, 51
Feasting, 38–39, 55, 56–57, 83
Frazer’s theories of pigs and, 101–2
Finkelstein, Israel, 119
Freud, Sigmund, 95
Gath (Tell es–Safi), 125–26
Göbekli Tepe, 39–40
Greek culture, 142
Pig husbandry in, 145
Pig sacrifice in, 148
Relation to Judaism, 154–55, 156–57
Greek Magical Papyri, 135
Gritille Höyük, 177
Hammurabi’s Code, 66
Hamoukar, Tell, 69
Harris, Marvin, 76–78
Hasmonean dynasty, 156
Hatra, 152
Hazor, Tel, 127
Herod, 157–58
Hisn al–Bab, 177
History of, 180–81
Homo erectus, 28
Hui Muslims, 190
Hunting of boar
Masculinity and, 29, 50–51, 87, 148–49, 183
Modern–day, 183–84
Hyksos, 89
Ibn Khaldun, 63
Iliad, The, 149–50
Institutions
Definition of, 62–63
Uses of livestock, 64–66
Uses of pigs, 69–70
Instrumentalism, see Ethnogenesis
Isotopes, 154
Israel
Pig husbandry, 182–83
Controversies about pork, 181–82
Settlements and wild boar, 184
Israelites, 116–17,
Origins of, 119–21
Pig taboo among, 126–27, 128–29
Kagemni, Tomb of, 83
Kom al Ahmar, 151
Lagash, 78
Lamashtu, 87
Lard, 79–80
Larson, Greger, 137
Late Bronze Age
Pig husbandry in, 80–82
Collapse, 116
Leilan, Tell, 69
Lidar Höyük, 137–38
Lower Paleolithic, 28
Maimonides, 99–100
Majdal Yaba, 178
Manichaeism, 142–43
Marj Rabba, 73–74
Meat, symbolic importance of, 38–39, 94–95
Megiddo, 127
Meiri, Meirav, 138–39
Methen, Tomb of, 78
Mezraa–Teleilat, 53–54
Middle Paleolithic, 28–29
Milgrom, Jacob, 102
Mishnah, see Talmud
Mozan, Tell, 69, 85–86, 102, 152
Muslim–Christian Relations, 175–76, 185–86
Muslim–Jewish Relations, 173–74; 175–76, 185
Natufian, 31–32
Naukratis, 124
Nazareth, 178
Neanderthals, 27
Neolithic, traits of, 33
New Guinea, 22, 35, 45–46, 93, 100
Ohalo II, 31
Pastoralism, 109–10
Paul of Tarsus, 165–66
Pella, 177
Pergamon, 151
Petronius, 99
Philistines, 125
Pig husbandry and, 125–26
Genetic turnover in pigs and, 138–39
Phoenicians, 136
Pig Husbandry
Industrial, 21–22
Intensive, 21, 45–46, 52–53, 152–54
Environmental conditions and, 50, 51, 66, 76–77, 105
Pig principles, 24–25, 96, 126
Pliny, 150–51
Poggio Colla, 145
Pollan, Michael, 191
Pollution, 89–90
Porphyry of Tyre, 136
Prey pathway, 41
Primordialism, see Ethnogenesis
Prodigal Son, Parable of the, 169
Qasile, 125–26
Qiryat Ata, 73–74
Quran, 173–76
Rabbinic Judaism, 164
Redding, Richard, 110–11
Reform Movement (in Judaism), 192
Robkin, Eugene, 106–7
Roman culture, 142–43
Pork as delicacy in, 145–46
Pigs as wealth in, 147
Roman–Jewish relations, 98–99, 154–59
Pigs and, 159–64
Sacrifices of pigs, 83–84
Sagalassos, 153
Saqqara, 83–84
Sassanian Empire, 142–43, 152, 172
Scott, James, 66
Sea Peoples, 116
Secondary products
Definition of, 49
Revolution, 59
Schwartz, Seth, 88
Silberman, Neil Asher, 119
Simoons, Frederick, 107–8, 109–10
Skhul, 28–29
Soap, 79–80
Soler, Jean, 107–8
Strabo, 135–36
Substitution (in ritual), 86–87, 148, 169
Suidae, 13
Suovetaurilia, 148
Sus scrofa
Evolution, 13–14
Intelligence, 14
Reproductive Behavior, 14–15
Diet, 15
Water Requirements, 15
Swans, 114–15
Swine Flu, H1N1, 1
Sykes, Naomi, 114–15
Taboo
Etymology, 92
Definition, 92–93
Radioactivity metaphor for, 93
Gender and, 93
Liminality and, 93
Meat and, 94–95
Composition of biblical, 122
Archaeological detection of, 126–27
Thesmophoria, see Fertility rituals
Traction, see Secondary products
Trichinosis, 100
Troy, 72
Tsaf, Tel, 55
Üçağızlı Cave, 29
Ugarit, 87
Upper Paleolithic, 30–31
Pig husbandry and, 69, 127, 145, 177–78
Uruk, 78
Wisdom literature, Babylonian, 124, 127, 130, 134
Wool, see “Secondary products”
Yiftahel, 73–74
Younger Dryas, 27–28
Zabaleen
History of, 180–81
Ziyaret Tepe, 124
Zooarchaeology, 4–5
Feasting, 39
Domestication at Çayönü Tepesi, 43–44
Pig husbandry strategies, 52–54
Zoroastrianism, 142–43