Beastly questions : animal answers to archaeological issues / Naomi Sykes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sykes, Naomi Jane, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal remains (Archaeology).

Human-animal relationships--History--To 1500.

Human-animal relationships.

Social archaeology.

Animal remains (Archaeology)--Europe.

Human-animal relationships--Europe--History--To 1500.

Social archaeology--Europe.

History.

Europe--Antiquities.

Europe.

Antiquities.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 221 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Summary:

"Zooarchaeology, or the study of ancient animal remains, is a vital but frequently side-lined subject in archaeology. Many disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, and geography, recognise human-animal interactions as a key source of information for understanding cultural ideology. Archaeological records are also composed largely of debris from human-animal relationships, be they in the form of animal bones, individual artefacts or entire landscapes. By integrating knowledge from archaeological remains with evidence from texts, iconography, social anthropology and cultural geography, Beastly Questions : Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues provides an intellectual tool-kit to enable archaeological students, researchers and those working in the commercial sector to offer more engaging interpretations of the evidence at their disposal. Going beyond the simple confines of 'what people ate', this accessible but in-depth study covers a variety of high-profile topics in European archaeology and provides novel insights into mainstream archaeological questions. This includes cultural responses to wild animals, the domestication of animals and its implications on human daily practice, experience and ideology, the transportation of species and the value of incorporating animals into landscape research, the importance of the study of foodways for understanding past societies and how animal studies can help us to comprehend issues of human identity and ideology: past, present and future"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Animals and people : mirrors and windows

Animal "revolutions"

Wild animals and human societies

Animal diaspora and culture change

Ideas of landscape

The chapter about ritual

Friends, confidants and lovers

Meat

Animals and ideology : past, present and future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781472506757

1472506758

OCLC:

872655013

Publisher Number:

99959509936