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People with Animals : Perspectives and Studies in Ethnozooarchaeology, Paperback / softback Book

People with Animals : Perspectives and Studies in Ethnozooarchaeology Paperback / softback

Edited by Lee Broderick

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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.

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