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This book investigates relations between humans and animals over
several centuries with a focus on the Middle Ages, since important
features of our perceptions regarding animals have been rooted in
that period. Elucidating various aspects of medieval human-animal
relationships requires transdisciplinary discourse, and so this
book aims to reconcile the materiality of animals with complex
cultural systems illustrating their subtle transitions 'between
body and mind'.
This book investigates relations between humans and animals over
several centuries with a focus on the Middle Ages, since important
features of our perceptions regarding animals have been rooted in
that period. Elucidating various aspects of medieval human-animal
relationships requires transdisciplinary discourse, and so this
book aims to reconcile the materiality of animals with complex
cultural systems illustrating their subtle transitions 'between
body and mind'.
The papers in this collection consider the ways in which material
culture has been deployed in different societies to construct and
support social memory. A range of topics are discussed including
Neolithic monumental culture, memory and material culture in
Aquincum, the Roman capital of Pannonia Inferior, early medieval
burial rites in Central Europe, ritual memory and Carolingian
kingship, as well as in Pavia, the Lombard capital, the use of
relics in combatting the Hussite Reformation, the holy "Sanjak"
peacock object in Yezidi religion, and Olvera Street in L.A., an
attempt to recreate an idealised Mexican past.
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Horses and Humans
Symposium, held in 2000 at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Powdermill Nature Preserve, in Rector, Pennsylvania, USA, in honor
of Mary Aiken Littauer. The four-day symposium brought together 35
academics from Eurasia and America from the disciplines of
archaeology, art history, history, paleontology, biology,
veterinary medicine, animal husbandry, and other fields for
presented papers, round-table discussions, demonstrations and much
lively debate in the evenings. The culmination was a one-day public
event at the St. Clair Showgrounds called the Celebration of the
Horse that involved a wide range of equestrian performances by over
50 horses and riders for a public audience of over 500. In addition
to the production of this volume, the symposium introduced many
equine scholars to each other and initiated both collaboration and
communication amongst this active community.
Thirty-six papers, from the 2nd meeting of the (ICAZ) worked Bone
Research Group held in Budapest in 1999, written by archaeologists
and archaozoologists, report on material from North and Central
America, Europe and South West Asia. The collection is divided into
six thematic sections (general theory, raw material exploitation,
manufacturing technology, function, social context and special
assemblages) and include reports on bone materials, objects and
tools that date from the Neolithic to the Viking and medieval
periods.
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