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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'.
Animals have always been integral to culture. Their interaction
with humans has intensified since the onset of domestication
resulting in higher incidences of animal disease due to human
intervention. At the same time, human care has counter-balanced
pressures of natural selection, reducing morbidity among wild
animals. Prior to the emergence of a veterinary record, animal
disease can only be traced by analysing pathological symptoms on
excavated animal remains. This volume presents a collection of
studies in the discipline of animal palaeopathology. An
international team of experts offer reviews of animal welfare at
ancient settlements from both prehistoric and historic periods
across Eurasia. Several chapters are devoted to the diseases of dog
and horse, two animals of prominent emotional importance in many
civilisations. Curious phenomena observed on the bones of poultry,
sheep, pig and even fish are discussed within their respective
cultural contexts. Many poorly healed bones are suggestive of
neglect in the case of ordinary livestock. On the other hand, a
great degree of compassion may be presumed behind the long survival
of seriously ill companion animals. In addition to furthering our
better technical understanding of animal disease in the past, this
volume also mirrors the diversity of human attitudes towards
animals during our millennia-long relationship. Some animal bones
show signs of extreme cruelty but others also reveal the great
attention paid to the recovery of sick animals. Such attitudes tend
to be a largely hidden yet are characteristic aspects of how people
relate to the surrounding world and, ultimately, to each other.
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.
A case study from Vac, Hungary. It is the author's ocntention that
during the late Middle Ages, the contribution of animals to urban
development intensified in Hungary since animal hubandry and
trading became a major form of accumulating wealth. Through his
archaeozoological survey of data he aims to provide illumination of
aspects of urban lifeways in the city of Vac which may not be clear
from previous examinations that have focused on other cultural
data.
The analysis of animal bone assemblages from archaeological sites
provides much valuable data concerning economic and husbandry
practices in the past, as well as insights into cultural and
symbolic or ritual activity. Animal palaeopathology can identify
diseases in archaeozoological assemblages but little interest has
been expressed in investigating and understanding the cultural
aspects of the diseases identified. Such assemblages represent the
cumulative effects of human attitudes, decisions and influences
regarding the keeping, care, treatment, neglect and exploitation of
animals which result in a range of conditions, non-infectious
diseases and injuries that can be recognised on ancient skeletal
material. Additionally, ever since the domestication of a handful
of animal species around 10,000 years ago, close physical proximity
has been a mutual source of infectious disease and traumatic injury
for humans and animals alike. Shuffling Nags, Lame Ducks provides
an invaluable guide to the investigation of trauma and disease in
archaeozoological assemblages. It provides a clear methodological
approach, and describes and explains the wide range of traumatic
lesions, infections, diseases, inherited disorders and other
pathological changes and anomalies that can be identified. In so
doing, it explores the impact that "man-made" decisions have had on
animals, including special aspects of culture that may be reflected
in the treatment of diseased or injured animals often incorporating
powerful symbolic or religious roles, and seeks to enhance our
understanding of the relationship between man and beast in the
past. Chapters include: * History of studying pathological animal
remains * Differences between human and animal palaeopathology *
Methodology * Growth, development and ageing * Traumatic lesions *
Inflammatory diseases and bone * Pathological lesions in working
animals * Diseases connected to the environment
Sixteen perspectives from archaeology, history and ethnology bring
together recent research on the origins, development and eventual
demise of transhumant pastoralism. All the papers except one were
presented at a symposium during the 12th International Congress of
Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences at Zagreb, July 1988, and
one of the ultimate aims of the collection is to present a series
of testable models that can be used to help identify the signs of
transhumant pastoral adaptation in the archaeological record, given
the difficulty of establishing its presence and significance in the
study of prehistoric cultural systems. Contributors: Anne-Marie
Brisebarre; Frederick Baker; Laszlo Bartosiewicz; Tone Cevc;
Ekaterini Chalkea; Claudia Chang; Eugen Comsa; Nikos Efstratiou;
Herbert Grassl; Haskel J. Greenfield; Joel Martin Halpern; Marta
Moreno Garcia; John G. Nandris; Michael L. Ryder; Jurij Senegacnik
and Inja Smerdel.
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