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  • Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks

    The Archaeology of Animal Disease

    The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites provides much valuable data concerning economic and husbandry practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and symbolic or ritual activity. Animal palaeopathology can identify diseases in archaeozoological assemblages but little interest has been expressed in investigating and understanding the cultural aspects of the ... Leer más

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  • Care or Neglect?

    Evidence of Animal Disease in Archaeology

    Edición de Laszlo Bartosiewicz, Erika Gal ...
    Animals have always been integral to culture. Their interaction with humans has intensified since the onset of domestication resulting in higher incidences of animal disease due to human intervention. At the same time, human care has counterbalanced pressures of natural selection, reducing morbidity among wild animals. Prior to the emergence of a veterinary record, animal disease can only be ... Leer más

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  • Connecting People and Ideas

    Networks and Networking in the History of Archaeology

    Series series History (R0)
    This book presents new research into social networks and the various networking modes that formed during the history of archaeology in distinct geographical settings in Europe, North America, and South Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The diverse range of international experts in this edited collection demonstrate that networks can be found everywhere in archaeology, making it a ... Leer más

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  • The Chora of Metaponto 2

    Archaeozoology at Pantanello and Five Other Sites

    From 1974 to the present, the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin has carried out archaeological excavations in the ancient territory (chora) of Metaponto, now located in the modern province of Basilicata on the southern coast of Italy. This wide-ranging investigation, which covers a number of sites and a time period ranging from prehistory to the Roman Empire, ... Leer más

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  • Medieval Animals on the Move

    Between Body and Mind

    Series series History (R0)
    This book investigates relations between humans and animals over several centuries with a focus on the Middle Ages, since important features of our perceptions regarding animals have been rooted in that period. Elucidating various aspects of medieval human-animal relationships requires transdisciplinary discourse, and so this book aims to reconcile the materiality of animals with complex cultural ... Leer más

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  • Ignorance

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    A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present dayA Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023“Ignorance: A Global History explores the myriad ways in which ‘not-knowing’ affects our lives, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill.”—Michael Dirda, Washington PostThroughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance ... Leer más

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  • Nationalism

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