Cat Tales

猫的故事

出版商： 泰晤士与哈德逊有限公司

发布日期： 2025年9月11日

版本： 第一版

语言： 英语

印刷长度： 272页

ISBN-10： 0500029539

ISBN-13： 978-0500029534

物品重量： 748 克

尺寸： 16.26 x 3.05 x 24.38 厘米

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

本书首次从考古学的角度探索了我们与猫之间不可思议的复杂关系，从昔日令人畏惧的敌人到如今温顺可爱的宠物。

猫曾被人们恐惧、敬畏和尊重，它们在人类历史和文明中留下了不可磨灭的印记。在英国，三分之一的家庭都养猫；截至2021年，约有4500万美国家庭拥有一只或多只猫，使猫成为世界上最受欢迎的宠物之一。在过去的200万年里，猫与人类以各种意想不到的方式互动，但你毛茸茸的朋友的祖先是捕食者，而非宠物。

本书中，人类学教授杰里·摩尔首次运用考古学的视角，揭示了猫从致命敌人到意想不到的室友的转变历程。从上新世令人胆寒的史前弯刀齿猫和旧石器时代肖维岩洞的狮子壁画开始，摩尔带领读者踏上一段与这些魅力十足的生物之间错综复杂的历史之旅。他沿着尼罗河，横跨地中海，航行至南美洲，探索跨越大陆和世纪的宠物墓地、猫木乃伊和精美雕像。

然而，我们试图将猫从寒冷的环境中带回家的努力并非总能迎来圆满的结局，摩尔在书中探究了乔·埃克索蒂克、西格弗里德·菲施巴赫和罗伊·霍恩等著名爱猫人士的故事。本书将令人惊叹的考古发现与当代媒体相结合，探讨了古今中外人类与猫（包括野生猫和家猫）之间的互动，并提出了一个简单却深刻的问题：究竟是谁驯化了谁？

The first book to explore from an archaeological perspective the incredible and improbable history of our relationship with cats, from fearsome foe to purring pet.

Feared, revered and respected, cats have left an indelible pawprint on the histories and civilizations of humankind. In Britain a third of all households have a cat, as of 2021, some 45 million American households owned one or more cats, making them one of the most popular pets in the world. Over the last two million years, cats and people have interacted in diverse and unexpected ways, but the predecessors of your furry friend were predators, not pets.

Here, for the first time, the path from deadly enemy to improbable roommate is set out through an archaeological lens by Professor of Anthropology Jerry Moore. Starting with the terrifying prehistorical scimitar-toothed cat of the Pliocene and the lion drawings of the Palaeolithic Chauvet caves, Moore journeys through our complicated history with these charismatic creatures. He travels along the Nile and across the Mediterranean, sailing on to South America, exploring pet cemeteries, cat mummies and exquisite statuary across continents and centuries.

However, our attempts to bring cats in from the cold have not always had happy endings, as Moore explores through such famous feline fanciers as Joe Exotic, Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn. Combining incredible archaeological finds with contemporary media, Cat Tales surveys ancient and modern interactions between humans and cats, wild and domestic, to ask a simple but profound question: who domesticated whom?

杰瑞·摩尔是一位考古学家、作家、编辑，也是加州州立大学多明格斯山分校的人类学教授。他的著作包括《家的史前史》（2012年出版，荣获美国考古学会大众图书奖）等。他曾为《考古学》和《贝尔福瓦》杂志撰稿，其作品已被翻译成法语、西班牙语、汉语、土耳其语和克罗地亚语。摩尔现居加州长滩，家中养着两只猫。

Jerry Moore is an archaeologist, writer, editor and professor of anthropology at California State University Dominguez Hills. His books include The Prehistory of Home (2012, winner of the Society for American Archaeology Popular Book Award) among many others. He has written for Archaeology and Berfois magazines and his writings have been translated into French, Spanish, Han Chinese, Turkish and Croatian. Moore lives in Long Beach, California, where he provides food service to two cats.