Dear colleagues,
Please find below a call for a session on
"GenevaHerding practices and techniques:
models and methodological tools for archaeozoological analysis" that we
are organizing for the 2006 ICAZ conference in Mexico. You
are very welcome to contact us and propose your participation. For now
we just need your name and a communication title, in order to elaborate
a preliminary program.
Best regards,
GenevaMarie Balasse, Hugo Yacobaccio,
Nicolas Goepfert, Daniel Helmer & Jean-Denis Vigne
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GenevaHerding practices and techniques:
models and methodological tools for archaeozoological analysis
Marie Balasse, Hugo Yacobaccio, Nicolas Goepfert, Daniel Helmer &
Jean-Denis Vigne
This session aims to highlight diversity in herding practices and
techniques, by distinguishing between constraints and choices, among
physiological, environmental and cultural factors modeling the herding
system. Participants are invited to join the session and share
observations on the husbandry of any domestic species from any part of
the world, environmental setting and/or historical period (ethnographic
and ethnoarchaeological observations of modern herders are also
welcome). Herding practices and techniques may include anything related
to reproduction control, demographic and genetic management (mate
choice, animal exchanges), feeding, protection, exploitation, and the
use of herding facilities (corrals, watering places). Ultimately the
aim is to define how reference models should be used (how transferable
are they, from one species and/or environment to another? How do they
reflect management practices?) and to discuss the appropriate
methodological tools to be used to infer this diversity in
archaeozoological assemblages. Eventually this should lead us towards
more qualified - and richer - statements and conclusions in our
archaeozoological analyses.
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Marie Balasse
Chargée de Recherche au CNRS, UMR 5197
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
Dept. Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité
USM 0303 Archéozoologie, Histoire des Sociétés humaines et des Peuplements animaux
GenevaCase postale 56 (Bâtiments d'Anatomie Comparée)
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