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Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Hessen, Kropp, Claus and Zoll, Lena (Eds.): Draft Animals in the Past, Present and Future, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2022. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1120

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ISBN 978-3-96929-197-9 (PDF)

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10/05/2022

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Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Hessen (Ed.), Claus Kropp (Ed.), Lena Zoll (Ed.)

Draft Animals in the Past, Present and Future

For millennia, draft animals played a key role in the survival of many cultures. Even today, they still secure the livelihood of millions of people around the globe. Be it in transportation, agriculture, or forestry: draft animals can offer sustainable, eco-friendly and economically valuable ways of land use. Nevertheless, there are a lot of challenges, be it the pressure of high-profit markets or politics, in animal welfare, breeding and harnessing. Furthermore, the total number of draft animals is declining. In 2021, an international, virtual conference has addressed these challenges. Participants from around the globe discussed the history, preservation, education and future of draft animals. The conference proceedings represent a comprehensive result of these efforts.

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Table of Contents
Pages
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Cover
1
Claus Kropp
Acknowledgments
3
Kirsten Worms
Welcoming words
4
Hermann Schefers
Prologue
5
Lena Zoll, Claus Kropp
Editors' Preface
6
Inhaltsverzeichnis
7-8
Paul Starkey, Bertha Mudamburi
Draft animals in the world
9-28
Bertha Mudamburi, Paul Starkey
Draft animal issues, constraints and opportunities in Africa
29-44
Eva Rosenstock
Speeding up. Prehistoric animal traction and the revolute joint
45-62
Matilda Holmes, Richard Thomas
“…in winter, plough”: Zooarchaeological evidence for the changing role of draught cattle and horses in medieval England AD 400-1400
63-70
Bob Powell
Scottish Farm Horsemen’s Society
71-78
Cozette Griffin-Kremer
Eye-to-eye with animal draft in France – a case study in a broader ecosystem
79-86
Marcel Scheidweiler
The introduction of draft donkey in Burkina Faso, West Africa
87-94
Jill Goulder
Draught animals in ancient Mesopotamia and today: the invaluable donkey
95-106
Barbara Sosič
How museum collections tell us stories about draft animals
107-112
Witold Wołoszyński, Julia Hanulewicz
Draft animals in museum education at the National Museum of Agriculture and Agri-Food Industry in Szreniawa (Poland)
113-122
Claus Kropp
The role of draft cattle in (Archaeological) Open-Air Museums and Living History Farms – A personal Essay
123-128
Peter Moser
Working animals – a historical approach
129-136
Andrew B. Conroy
Oxen: Status, Uses and Practices in the U.S.A., Encouraging a Historic Tradition to Thrive
137-152
Dale K. Stoltzfus
Amish Animal Traction
153-156
Paul Schmit
Horsepower – Innovation in small-scale agriculture and gardening
157-164
Hugo Samuel Sanhueza Leal, Oscar Leonardo García Navarrete, Hugo A. González Sánchez
Animal Drawn BioMechanical System (ADBIS) for Tillage in Colombia
165-176
Philippe Lhoste
Modernizing mechanization in draft animal use for a sustainable peasant agriculture
177-182
Philippe Lhoste
A homage to Jo Ballade
183-184
Antonio Perrone
A tool for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals set up by United Nations
185-190
Rick Thomas
Sterling College degree program “Sustainable Agriculture and Draft Animal Power Systems”
191-196
Timothy Harrigan
Refining Animal Traction: Linking Physical and Social Processes
197-210
João B. Rodrigues, Pit Schlechter
Animal traction in Europe in the XXI century: challenges, threats and opportunities
211-216
Astrid Masson
Epilogue
217-218
Imprint
219

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