Dear Jaqui and all the zooarchs,
Please note that the ICAZ organizers amended their email address, the valid email is:
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Sorry for the inconvenience
Cheers,
Eduardo
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"Jacqui Mulville" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>X-INFO: INVALID TO LINE
>Eduardo, I am having trouble with the ICAZ email address could you forward this
>to the organisers.....the address I was using was [log in to unmask] and it
>just bounced back saying no account.
>
>Hello Joaquin and Oscar,
>
>We would like to hold a session provisionally titled 'A walk on the wild side:
>the role of wild animals in farming societies'. This is a subject we are very
>interested at a UK-wide level and we think the subject has international appeal.
>
>The main question is for what purpose are wild animals procured, simply to
>provide materials unavialable from domestic species, to provide food at lean
>times of year or does hunting have a social and symbolic role? How can we as
>zooarchaeologists get beyond our economic interpretations of wild animal usage
>and expore the wider role of hunting in human societies.
>
>In the UK we seem to have only occassional use of wild animals post-neolithic
>however there is increasing evidence that our definitions of wild and domestic
>and the way the two groups of animals are regarded and procured and is far more
>complex than previously thought. For example, at the Neolithic site of
>Durrington Walls domestic pigs appear to have been hunted with bow and arrow,
>whilst at Neolithic Ascott-under-Wychwood Aurochs and domestic cattle have
>different dietary stable isotope signals, suggesting the two groups were
>deliberatly kept apart.
>
>Anyhow do you think this is a good idea? There is a whole body of ethnographic
>evidence for the social role of hunting and we are hoping to attract
>international speakers who could combine zooarchaeology and ethnography to
>provide a better insight into our use of non-domesticated species.
>
>Hope to hear from you soon.
>Yours Jacqui Mulville and Adrienne Powell
>
>
>
>Jacqui Mulville,
>Lecturer in Bioarchaeology,
>Examinations Officer
>Equal Oppourtunities Representative
>School of History and Archaeology
>Cardiff University
>Cardiff
>CF10 3XU
>
>http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/people/archaeology/jm1/
>
>Honorary Meeting Secretary,
>Prehistoric Society.
>
>Tel: + 44 (0) 29 2087 4247
>Fax: + 44 (0) 29 2087 4929
>
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Eduardo Corona-M.
Co-Organizador del Seminario Relaciones Hombre-Fauna
Laboratorio de Arqueozoologia,
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
Moneda 16, Col. Centro.
Mexico, 06060, D.F.
Mexico.
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