Overview

This book explores the interaction between animals, plants, and humans in ancient Egypt. It draws together different aspects of the bioarchaeology of Egypt: flora, fauna, and human remains. These come from sites throughout the country from Alexandria to Aswan, as well as material from museum basements. The material presented here includes the results of new and previously unpublished excavations in the Delta and Thebes, in-depth studies of different species of animal mummies, an analysis of animal cults, tentative identifications of wild dogs in Egyptian art, a variety of diseases from which the ancient Egyptians suffered, studies on human remains using traditional as well as state-of-the-art technologies, and the different foods that formed the diet of the ancient Egyptians. The studies blend traditional methodologies, often deployed in novel ways, such as examining the pelage of lions, as well as new 3D technologies used in the analyses of bioarchaeological material. The results of these studies deepen our knowledge of ancient Egypt, its inhabitants, and their interaction with their environment. The present volume is the proceedings of the Conference on the Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt & the Second International Symposium on Animals in Ancient Egypt (Cairo, 2019).

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Author:   Salima Ikram ,  Jessica Kaiser ,  Stéphanie Porcier
Publisher:   Sidestone Press
Imprint:   Sidestone Press
ISBN:  

9789464260366

ISBN 10:   946426036
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   28 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Curatorial Training in Human Remains for the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Hasnaa Askalany & Gehad Shawky Ibrahem   Hyperostosis frontalis interna in the Early Dynastic Period at Abydos, Egypt. Brenda J. Baker & Ahmed Mohamed Gabr   Humans and Animals together in the Journey to the Afterlife. The Burial in Area R11 under the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep II, Luxor, West Thebes – Italian Archaeological Project. Fabio Bona, Giovanna Bellandi, Letizia Cavallini, Anna Consonni, Tommaso Quirino & Angelo Sesana   To Be or Not to Be a Dog Mummy: How a Metric Study of the Skull can Inform on Selection Practices Pertaining to Canid Mummification in Ancient Egypt. Colline Brassard, Stéphanie Porcier & Cécile Callou   Newcomers in the Bestiary. A Review of the Presence of Lycaon pictus in Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Environment and Iconography. Axelle Brémont   Dévots et animaux sacrés. Alain Charron   Tuberculosis at Tell-el Amarna: A Theoretical Exercise in the Economic and Social Effects of Chronic, Terminal Disease in Ancient Egypt. Gretchen R. Dabbs   Burial Practices in the West Delta: Cases from Kom Aziza. Shereen El-Morsi & Aya M. Salem   A Structure-from-Motion Pipeline for Bone Morphology 3D Analysis. Margaret Farmer & Angelique Corthals   Lions and Science and Whorls, Oh My! Karen Polinger Foster   Human and Faunal Remains in Egypt: A New Department and a New Approach. Zeinab Hashesh & Ahmed Gabr   Creatures of the Sun, Creatures of the Moon: Animal Mummies from Lisbon’s National Archaeological Museum. Salima Ikram, Carlos Prates, Sandra Sousa & Carlos Oliveira   Brief Notes about a Mummified Crocodile from the National Archaeological Museum (MANN) of Naples, Italy. Ilaria Incordino & Cinzia Oliva   Faunal Remains at the Causeway of Sahura. Mohamed Ismail Khaled & Mohamed Hussein Ahmed   Venerunt, Viderunt, Vicerunt: The Roman Conquest and the Non-Elite. Jessica Kaiser   Iinteractions Between Teeth and Their Environment: A Study of the Effect on Age Estimation. Casey L. Kirkpatrick   Discovery of an Unexpected Textile Fiber in a Fish Mummy from the Musée des Conflunces (Lyon) Collection. Fleur Letellier-Willemin   Women’s Health Issues Reflected in Case Studies from Theban Tomb 16. Suzanne Onstine, Jesus Herrerín, Miguel Sanchez & Rosa Dinarès   Analyse des gazelles momifiées de Kom Mereh/Komir (Haute Egypte) conservées au Musée des Confluences (Lyon, France). Stéphanie Porcies & Louis Chaix   Did Egyptians Eat Donkeys? Reflections from Historical and Archaeological Data. Mathilde Prévost & Joséphine Lesur   What I Have Learned: Assumptions Bad, Intersections Good. Richard W. Redding   Biomolecular Stable Isotope and Carbon-14 Dates of Ancient Egyptian Food Offerings: A Case Study from a Provincial Cemetery of Deir el-Ballas. Amr Khalaf Shahat & Victoria Jensen   Animal Butchering Technology in Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt: The Shift from Stone to Metal Tools. Eleuterio Sousa & Haskel J. Greenfield   Anthropological Study of the Egyptian Mummy from the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Using Computed Tomography. Sergey Vasilyev, E.B. Yatsishina, R.M. Galeev, S.B. Borustkaya, M.V. Kovalchuk, O.A. Vasilieva, O.P. Dyuzheva & V.L. Ushakov   Intentionally Burnt Human Remains from the Kom Ombo Temple Salvage Excavation. Afaf Wahba

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Salima Ikram is Distinguished University Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, and has excavated extensively in Egypt as well as in Turkey. She has directed the Animal Mummy Project, the Amenmesse Project (KV10/KV63), the North Kharga Oasis Darb Ain Amur Project, and headed the archaeozoology team at Kinet Hoyuk in Turkey. She has a variety of research interests, especially the interaction between humans and animals, ancient Egyptian foodways, rock art, death, and mummies of both humans and animals. She has published extensively both for scholarly and non-specialist audiences, as well as for children, and is currently collaborating on the publication of the animal mummies in the Museo Egizio, Turin. Ikram is a member of the MAHES (Momies Animales et Humaines EgyptienneS) project. Jessica Kaiser is a bioarchaeologist currently finalizing her PhD in Human Osteology and Egyptian Archaeology at the University of California Berkeley. She spent ten years as the head osteologist of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project/AERA, where she also taught osteology. She has worked as an archaeologist and human remains specialist in Upper and Middle Egypt, Sweden, and the US. She has published on her work at Giza. Stéphanie Porcier is an Egyptologist and Archeozoologist specializing in the study of animals in ancient Egypt and especially animal mummies. She directs the inter- and multidisciplinary program MAHES (French acronym for Egyptian Animal and Human Mummies) which aims to study the most important collection of animal mummies outside Egypt kept at the Musée des Confluences, Lyon (France). Since 2017, she has conducted research on baboon mummies from the Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud as part of the Baboon Project. She has published several scientific papers on animals (worship, representation, food and mummy analysis) and is an authority on the Mnevis bull.

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