Overview
People with Animals emphasises the interdependence of people and animals in society, and contributors examine the variety of forms and time-depth that these relations can take. The types of relationship studied include the importance of manure to farming societies, dogs as livestock guardians, seasonality in pastoralist societies, butchery, symbolism and food. Examples are drawn from the Pleistocene to the present day and from the Altai Mountains, Ethiopia, Iraq, Italy, Mongolia and North America. The 11 papers work from the basis that animals are an integral part of society and that past society is the object of most archaeological enquiry. Discussion papers explore this topic and use the case-studies presented in other contributions to suggest the importance of ethnozooarchaeology not just to archaeology but also to anthrozoology. A further contribution to archaeological theory is made by an argument for the validity of ethnozooarchaeology derived models to Neandertals. The book makes a compelling case for the importance of human-animal relations in the archaeological record and demonstrates why the information contained in this record is of significance to specialists in other disciplines.
Full Product Details
Author: Lee Broderick
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Dimensions:
Width: 21.80cm
, Height: 0.80cm
, Length: 28.00cm
Weight: 0.408kg
ISBN: 9781785702471
ISBN 10: 1785702475
Pages: 156
Publication Date: 31 March 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Successfully demonstrates the varied roles that animals can play for human societies and the ways in which study of human-animal relations contributes to deeper understanding of those societies. Moreover, it clearly shows the usefulness of analogy for generating insight and avenues for research into past cultures, while acknowlkedging the constraints and importance of context when analogising. -- Kristopher Poole Medieval Archaeologyhaeology Anyone who is interested in these topics, and wishes to continue or extend his or her perspective in the field should have this book. After all the price of GBP38 would certainly not make me hesitate to add it to my own bookshelf. -- Julie Daujat Landscape History
Successfully demonstrates the varied roles that animals can play for human societies and the ways in which study of human-animal relations contributes to deeper understanding of those societies. Moreover, it clearly shows the usefulness of analogy for generating insight and avenues for research into past cultures, while acknowlkedging the constraints and importance of context when analogising. -- Kristopher Poole Medieval Archaeology haeology
Successfully demonstrates the varied roles that animals can play for human societies and the ways in which study of human-animal relations contributes to deeper understanding of those societies. Moreover, it clearly shows the usefulness of analogy for generating insight and avenues for research into past cultures, while acknowlkedging the constraints and importance of context when analogising. -- Kristopher Poole Medieval Archaeologyhaeology
Anyone who is interested in these topics, and wishes to continue or extend his or her perspective in the field should have this book. After all the price of GBP38 would certainly not make me hesitate to add it to my own bookshelf. * Landscape Hiostry * Framing animals beyond material purposes is far from an easy task... to such an end, books as [People with Animals] will no doubt pave the way. * Orbis Terrarum * Successfully demonstrates the varied roles that animals can play for human societies and the ways in which study of human-animal relations contributes to deeper understanding of those societies. Moreover, it clearly shows the usefulness of analogy for generating insight and avenues for research into past cultures, while acknowlkedging the constraints and importance of context when analogising. * Medieval Archaeology *
Author Information
Lee G. Broderick is a zooarchaeologist and ethnoarchaeologist. Primarily interested in pastoralism, taphonomy, palaeoecology (including the interaction of environment and subsistence) and archaeological theory he often takes a landscape approach to understanding the zooarchaeological record. He has carried out research into several different cultures, periods and places including the British Isles, Ethiopia, Mongolia and Tanzania.
