Dear All,
Apologies for cross posting.
This is the final call for submissions to the 'Dairying of non Bos domesticates' session for the ICAZ 2014 conference to be held in Argentina in September. We already have a number of speakers confirmed, but would welcome further participation, particularly from outside of Europe. Please circulate this widely among potentially interested colleagues and students. It is anticipated that a peer reviewed volume will result from this session.
Abstracts must be submitted via the ICAZ 2014 conference website by March 1st.
We would also request that a copy of your abstract is sent to the session organisers Julia Cussans ([log in to unmask]) and Jacqui Mulville ([log in to unmask]).
Session 15. DAIRYING OF NON BOS DOMESTICATES
In the past much of the research and debate into dairying practices, particularly in Britain, has been focused on cattle and a high presence of neonate animals. Payne’s (1973) mortality models, for sheep/goats show high infant mortality as indicative of dairying inferring that the mortality patterns seen in cattle dairying herds are likely to be reflected in other domesticates exploited for dairy products. However some recent studies of sheep/goat assemblages which do not follow Payne’s idealised mortality model for milking have been interpreted as representing dairy economies (e.g. Cussans in press). It seems likely that this is due to physiological differences between cattle and sheep in terms of milk let down. Therefore it is necessary to more closely examine the evidence for dairying in domestic species other than cattle to determine to what extent such practices were carried out and how they may be recognised in the archaeological record. This session follows on from and develops themes explored in previous ICAZ sessions, for instance, the secondary products session (Paris 2010) and the fats, oils and dairying session (Durham 2002), it also links with recent advances made by the European research network LeCHE. This session offers the opportunity to bring together dairying research from around the world on a variety of different species, including horses, sheep, goats and camelids.
Lines of inquiry may include, but are not limited to:
* Physiological differences between cattle and other domesticates
* Archaeozoological case studies, particularly including age and sex profiles
* Ethnographic case studies
* Isotopic analyses
* Lipid residue analyses
* Artefact studies
* Studies of any non Bos species from all around the world are welcomed
Cussans, J.E.M. In press. Animal Bone. In I. Armit and J.T. McKenzie (eds.) An Inherited Place: Broxmouth hillfort and the southeast Scottish Iron Age. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph Series
Payne, S. 1973, ‘Kill-off patterns in sheep and goats: the mandibles from Aşvan Kale’, Anatolian Studies 23, 281-305
Dr Julia E. M. Cussans
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