Pilaar Birch Multispecies Archaeology

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-317-48064-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 390 Seiten

Reihe: Archaeological Orientations

Multispecies Archaeology explores the issue of ecological and cultural novelty in the archaeological record from a multispecies perspective. Encompassing more than just our relationships with animals the book considers what we can learn about the human past without humans as the focus of the question. The volume digs deep into our understanding of interaction with plants, fungi, microbes, and even the fundamental building blocks of life, DNA. Multispecies Archaeology examines what it means to be human—and non-human—from a variety of perspectives providing a new lens through which to view the past.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pilaar Birch, Suzanne E.

Pilaar Birch, Suzanne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Living in the Anthropocene

1. Calabrian Hounds and Roasted Ivory (or, Swerving from Anthropocentrism)

Noah Heringman

2. The End of the ‘Neolithic’? At the emergence of the Anthropocene

Christopher Witmore

3. Rehearsing the Anthropocene in microcosm: the palaeoenvironmental impacts of the Pacific rat (Rattus exulans) and other non-human species during island Neolithization

Thomas P. Leppard

4. Trans-Holocene Human Impacts on California Mussels (Mytilus californianus): Historical Ecological Management Implications from the Northern Channel Islands

Breana Campbell, Todd J. Braje, and Stephen G. Whitaker

5. Drift

Þóra Pétursdóttir

Part II: Multispecies Ecology of the Built Environment

6. Symbiotic Architectures

Gavin Lucas

7. The Eco-Ecumene and Multispecies History: The Case of Abandoned Protestant Cemeteries in Poland

Ewa Domanska

8. Ecologies of Rock and Art in Northern New Mexico

Benjamin Alberti and Severin Fowles

9. Oysters and Mound-Islands of Crystal River along the Central Gulf Coast of Florida

Victor D. Thompson and Thomas J. Pluckhahn

10. Multi-species Dynamics and the Ecology of Urban Spaces in Roman Antiquity

Michael MacKinnon

11. Mammalian Community Assembly in Ancient Villages and Towns in the Jordan Valley of Israel

Nimrod Marom and Lior Weissbrod

Part III: Agrarian Commitments: Towards an archaeology of symbiosis

12. Animals and the Neolithic: cui bono?

Terry O’Connor

13. Making space from the position of duty of care: Early Bronze Age human - sheep entanglements in Norway.

Kristin Armstrong Oma

14. The History of the Human Microbiome: Insights from Archaeology and Ancient DNA

Laura S. Weyrich

15. An archaeological telling of multispecies co-inhabitation: comments on the origins of agriculture and domestication narrative in southwest Asia

Brian Boyd

Part IV: The Ecology of Movement

16. Legs, feet and hooves: the seasonal roundup in Iceland

Oscar Aldred

17. The Rhythm of Life: Exploring the role of daily and seasonal rhythms in the development of human-nonhuman relationships in the British Early Mesolithic

Nick J. Overton

18. Seasonal mobility and multispecies interactions in the Mesolithic northeastern Adriatic

Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch

19. The role of ostrich in shaping the landscape use patterns of humans and hyenas on the southern coast of South Africa during the late Pleistocene

Jamie Hodgkins, Petrus le Roux, Curtis W. Marean, Kirsty Penkman, Molly Crisp, Erich Fisher, and Julia Lee-Thorp

20. Prey species movements and migrations in ecocultural landscapes: reconstructing late Pleistocene herbivore seasonal spatial behaviors

Kate Britton

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Suzanne Pilaar Birch is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia with a joint appointment in the departments of Anthropology and Geography. She combines zooarchaeology and biogeochemistry to investigate changes in diet, environment, mobility, and settlement systems spanning the late Pleistocene and early Holocene.