Dear colleagues,
Please find below a call for a session on "Herding 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,
Marie Balasse, Hugo Yacobaccio, Nicolas Goepfert, Daniel Helmer &
Jean-Denis Vigne
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Herding 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
Case postale 56 (Bâtiments d'Anatomie Comparée)
55 rue Buffon
75231 Paris Cedex 05
France
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