Food Provisioning in Complex Societies
University Press of Colorado (Verlag)
978-1-64642-098-8 (ISBN)
Taking a global perspective and including both prehistoric and historic case studies, the chapters in the volume reflect some of the current best practices in the zooarchaeology of complex societies. Embedding faunal evidence within a broader anthropological explanatory framework and integrating archaeological contexts, historic texts, iconography, and ethnohistorical sources, the book discerns myriad ways that animals are key contributors to, and cocreators of, complex societies in all periods and all places. Chapters cover the diverse sociopolitical and economic roles wild animals played in Bronze Age Turkey; the production and consumption of animal products in medieval Ireland; the importance of belief systems, politics, and cosmologies in Shang Dynasty animal provisioning in the Yellow River Valley; the significance of external trade routes in the kingdom of Aksum (modern Sudan); hunting and animal husbandry at El Zotz; animal economies from two Mississippian period sites; and more.
Food Provisioning in Complex Societies provides an optimistic roadmap and heuristic tools to explore the diverse, resilient, and contingent processes involved in food provisioning. The book represents a novel and productive way forward for understanding the unique, yet predictably structured, provisioning systems that emerged in the context of complex societies in all parts of the world. It will be of interest to zooarchaeologists and archaeologists alike.
Contributors: Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales, Fiona Beglane, Roderick Campbell, Kathryn Grossman, Patricia Martinez-Lira, Jacqueline S. Meier, Sarah E. Newman, Terry O'Connor, Tanya M. Peres, Gypsy C. Price, Elizabeth J. Reitz, Kim Shelton, Marcus Winter, Helina S. Woldekiros
Levent Atici is professor of anthropology and executive director of Undergraduate Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His zooarchaeological research covers the full spectrum of human-animal interactions with special emphases on the origins and spread of domesticated animals and specialized pastoral economies of early complex societies in southwest Asia in general and Turkey in particular. Benjamin S. Arbuckle is professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a zooarchaeologist whose research focuses on human-animal interactions in ancient Anatolia (modern Turkey). He is coeditor of Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World.
Erscheinungsdatum | 17.08.2022 |
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Verlagsort | Colorado |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 408 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
Technik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-64642-098-5 / 1646420985 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-64642-098-8 / 9781646420988 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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