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Farm, hunt, feast, celebrate : animals and society in neolithic, bronze and Iron age northern France / Ginette Auxiette.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Auxiette, Ginette, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human-animal relationships--France, Northern--History--To 1500.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--France, Northern.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Neolithic period--France, Northern.
- Neolithic period.
- Bronze age--France, Northern.
- Bronze age.
- Iron age--France, Northern.
- Iron age.
- France, Northern--Antiquities, Prehistoric.
- France, Northern.
- Antiquities, Prehistoric.
- Northern France.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Building on the experience of twenty-five years of fieldwork and archaeozoological analyses carried out during research projects in various regions of northern France, this book examines animal husbandry and hunting practices over the 5000 year period from the first sedentary groups to the more evolved societies, corresponding to the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age. This approach is based on the processing of a very large amount of data, from sources as varied a.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Chrono-cultural background
- The Neolithic
- The Bronze Age
- The Iron Age
- 2. Domestic consumption on habitation sites
- The Metal Ages
- 3. Collective meals
- The Bronze Age and the Iron Age
- 4. Cultural manifestations
- Deposits containing entire animals, or animal parts, in "domestic" contexts
- Animal deposits in Y- and W-shaped pits: The Neolithic and Bronze Age
- 5. The animal in the funerary realm
- The Neolithic
- The Bronze Age and the Iron Age
- 6. Throwing light on social mechanisms
- An overview of Neolithic socio-economic systems
- An overview of Bronze and Iron Age socio-economic systems
- Evolution of cultual expressions through the ages
- The question of animal sacrifice through the ages
- 7. General conclusion
- References
- Appendices
- Biographies
- Blank Page
- Blank Page
- Notes:
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed December 10, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Auxiette, Ginette. Farm, Hunt, Feast, Celebrate.
- ISBN:
- 9464260238
- 9789464260236
- OCLC:
- 1285781960
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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