Dear Friends,
Please find below the abstract of a session that I will be organising for the
ICAZ 2006 conference in Mexico City (already kindly approved by the conference
organisers). I would be grateful for any suggestions of contributions to this
session. At the moment even a preliminary title will be sufficient, as the
priority is to start organising the programme so that eventual gaps in
geographic and thematic coverage can eventually be sorted out through a more
targeted search of contributors. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheers,
Umberto
ETHNOZOOARCHAEOLOGY
Organiser: Umberto Albarella – Dept of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, UK
This session will address archaeological questions through the study of
human-animal relations in recent human societies. Any activities of traditional
societies interacting with animals, such as hunting and husbandry strategies,
slaughtering and butchering, ceremonial and ritual practices, techniques of
deposition and disposal etc., can be included. An explicit reference to the
potential of these studies for the understanding of zooarchaeological questions
will, however, be regarded as essential for inclusion in the session. This can
take the form either of a practical application to a specific archaeological
problem or a theoretical statement of the potential of this study for
archaeological interpretations. Analyses of recent human activities that have
disappeared but still survive in the written record and in the material culture
of a society will be welcome, but purely historical studies or those based on
experimental reconstructions of traditional activities will not be included. It
is expected that a few papers will discuss general problems such as the
theoretical potential of ethnography for zooarchaeology, the use of comparative
analogies in the ethnographic and zooarchaeological records, and the historical
developments of this discipline. Most papers will, however, deal with specific
case studies and a wide geographic coverage, hopefully including all
continents, will actively be sought. This broad geographic approach will also
provide the opportunity to present case studies of different types of
societies, ranging from hunter-gatherers to urban populations and from
horticulturalists, to traditional farmers and pastoralists. It is hoped that
such diversity of papers will also be reflected in the internationality of the
participants, and in the variety of approaches, ranging from anthropology, to
ethnohistory and pure zooarchaeology.
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Umberto Albarella
Department of Archaeology
University of Sheffield
Northgate House
West Street
Sheffield S1 4ET
United Kingdom
Telephone: (+) 44 (0) 114 22 22 943
Fax: (+) 44 (0) 114 27 22 563
http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/albarella.html
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