Seventeen papers demonstrate how zooarchaeologists engage with
questions of identity through culinary references, livestock
husbandry practices and land use. Contributions combine hitherto
unpublished zooarchaeological data from regions straddling a wide
geographic expanse between Greece in the West and India in the East
and spanning a time range from the latest part of the Palaeolithic
to the Middle Ages. The vitality of a hands-on approach to data
presentation and interpretation carried out primarily at the level
of the individual site - the arena of research providing the bread
and butter of zooarchaeological work conducted in southwest Asia -
is demonstrated. Among the themes explored are shifting identities
of late hunter-gatherers through interactions with settled agrarian
societies; the management of camp sites by early complex
hunter-gatherers; processes of assimilation of Roman culinary
practices among Egyptian elites; and the propagation of medieval
pilgrim identity through the use of seashell insignia. A wealth of
new data is discussed and a wide variety of applications of
analytical approaches are applied to particular case studies within
the framework of social and contextual zooarchaeology. The volume
constitutes the proceedings of the 11th meeting of the ICAZ Working
Group - Archaeozoology of Southwestern Asia and Adjacent Areas
(ASWA).
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