The social role of hunting and wild animals in late Bronze Age Crete : a social zooarchaeological analysis
This thesis investigates the social role of hunting and wild animals in Late Bronze Age west Crete, particularly in Chania. The areas addressed are: the nature of human interaction with wild animals (red and fallow deer and agrimia) in Late Bronze Age Crete, including how might concepts of âwildâ and âdomesticâ have been perceived and enacted; the evidence for the âsocialâ role played by wild animals in Late Bronze Age Crete; and the role human-(âwildâ)animal engagement played in the social and political transformations that were taking place in Late Bronze Age west Crete. These questions are investigated predominantly through primary zooarchaeological analysis, but also referring to other categories of data such as iconographic material. This analysis is situated within a broader body of theoretical approaches to understanding human-animal relationships and adopts, as far as possible, a non-anthropocentric approach. In order to investigate the data, a framework of analysis was devised to link the relationships with the living animal, with the dead animal, and with the animal bone remains, as an interconnected series of embodied events, termed here âa cycle of engagementâ. It is concluded
Harris, Kerry
CC Archaeology
The social role of hunting and wild animals in late Bronze Age Crete : a social zooarchaeological analysis. This thesis investigates the social role of hunting and wild animals in Late Bronze Age west Crete, particularly in Chania. The areas addressed are: the nature of human interaction with wild animals (red and fallow deer and agrimia) in Late Bronze Age Crete, including how might concepts of âwildâ and âdomesticâ have been perceived and enacted; the evidence for the âsocialâ role played by wild animals in Late Bronze Age Crete; and the role human-(âwildâ)animal engagement played in the social and political transformations that were taking place in Late Bronze Age west Crete. These questions are investigated predominantly through primary zooarchaeological analysis, but also referring to other categories of data such as iconographic material. This analysis is situated within a broader body of theoretical approaches to understanding human-animal relationships and adopts, as far as possible, a non-anthropocentric approach. In order to investigate the data, a framework of analysis was devised to link the relationships with the living animal, with the dead animal, and with the animal bone remains, as an interconnected series of embodied events, termed here âa cycle of engagementâ. It is concluded
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