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"This is the first book to provide an overview and systematic examination of social zooarchaeology, a new approach that takes a holistic veiw of human-animal relations in the past. Until very recently, zooarchaeology was heavily focused on diet and subsistence economy, especially for prehistoric periods. This book argues that animals have always played much broader roles in human societies: as wealth, companions, spirit helpers, socrificial victims, totems, centerpieces of feasts, and objects of taboos, and so on. Exploring the briader significance of ancient animals provides a richer ppicture of past societies, Even those primarily interested in utuilitarian aspects of animal use need to account for that social factors that shaped zooarchaeological assemblages as much as taphonomic processes"--
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Human remains (Archaeology), Human-animal relationships, Animal remains (Archaeology), Social archaeology, NATURE / Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Prehistoric peoples, History, Animal remains (archaeology), Human remains (archaeology), Prehistoric Rites and ceremonies, Animals and civilizationShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Social zooarchaeology: humans and animals in prehistory
2012, Cambridge University Press
in English
0521767377 9780521767378
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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