Dear all,
I am new to this list but not to zooarchaeology. I recently completed a
Ph.D on human responses to the wolf and its environment in medieval
Britain and Scandinavia, and I will be starting post-doctoral research
on broader human-animal relations in medieval Europe from October 2003.
Both Ph.D and post-doc take an interdisciplinary approach. I have been
invited to organise a session at TAG 2003 and a call for papers is
included below:
Call for Papers: Just Skin and Bones? New Perspectives on Human-Animal
Relations in the Historic Past
TAG 2003, University of Wales, Lampeter, 17th-19th December
(apologies for cross-posting to those I have already contacted and those
also on medieval lists)
Animals were fundamentally important to human society in the past on a
level we can barely begin to appreciate in the present. The diversity of
human responses to animals and their environment in the historic past is
clearly evident from the extensive range of material culture and written
sources, but remains largely unexplored within modern scholarship – in
fact, much is taken for granted. These responses were both ‘physical’
and ‘conceptual’, and our understanding of human-animal relations in the
historic past is fragmented into a series of specialist insights, which
typically fall into one category or the other. Only by bringing together
studies of faunal remains, artefacts, art, written sources, ecological,
ethological and ethnographic analogues, can we begin to fill in the
gaps, and attain a more holistic understanding of the complex
relationships between humans, animals and their shared environments in
the historic past. This session aims to bring together research that
presents new and exciting ways of looking at animals, with the hope of
breaking down some of the artificial boundaries that exist between the
disciplines.
If you’d like to propose a paper, please contact me (details below):
Provisional deadline for paper abstracts of 200 words is 25th August
2003 - TAG deadline for submissions is the 1st of September.
Many thanks,
Aleks Pluskowski
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Department of Archaeology
University of Cambridge
Downing Street
Cambridge CB2 3DZ
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