| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 376 pages) |
| Series |
Archaeological orientations |
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Archaeological orientations.
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| Contents |
Part I. Living in the Anthropocene -- Calabrian hounds and roasted ivory (or, swerving from anthropocentrism) / Noah Heringman -- The end of the Neolithic? At the emergence of the Anthropocene / Christopher Witmore -- 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 -- 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 -- Drift / Þóra Pétursdóttir -- Part II. Multispecies ecology of the built environment -- Symbiotic architectures / Gavin Lucas -- The eco-ecumene and multispecies history: the case of abandoned protestant cemeteries in Poland / Ewa Domanska -- Ecologies of rock and art in northern New Mexico / Benjamin Alberti and Severin Fowles -- Oysters and mound-islands of crystal river along the central gulf coast of Florida / Victor D. Thompson and Thomas J. Pluckhahn -- Multi-species dynamics and the ecology of urban spaces in Roman antiquity / Michael MacKinnon -- 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 -- Animals and the Neolithic: cui bono? / Terry O'Connor -- Making space from the position of duty of care: early Bronze Age human-sheep entanglements in Norway / Kristin Armstrong Oma -- The history of the human microbiome: insights from archaeology and ancient DNA / Laura S. Weyrich -- 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 -- Legs, feet and hooves: the seasonal roundup in Iceland / Oscar Aldred -- 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 -- Seasonal mobility and multispecies interactions in the Mesolithic northeastern Adriatic / Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch -- 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 -- Prey species movements and migrations in ecocultural landscapes: reconstructing late Pleistocene herbivore seasonal spatial behaviors / Kate Britton |
| Summary |
"Multispecies Archaeology explores the issue of ecological and cultural novelty in the archaeological record from a multispecies perspective. Human exceptionalism and our place in nature have long been topics of academic consideration and archaeology has been synonymous with an exclusively human past, to the detriment of gaining a more nuanced understanding of one that is shared. 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. Challenging not only the subject or object of archaeology but also broader disciplinary identities, the volume is a landmark in this new and evolving area of scholarly interest."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 23, 2018) |
| Subject |
Environmental archaeology -- Research
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Social archaeology -- Research
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Human ecology -- History -- To 1500
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- History -- To 1500
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Paleoecology -- Research
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Animal remains (Archaeology)
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Plant remains (Archaeology)
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Geology, Stratigraphic -- Anthropocene.
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Holocene.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Animal remains (Archaeology)
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Environmental archaeology -- Research
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Geology, Stratigraphic
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Human ecology
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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Paleoecology -- Research
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Plant remains (Archaeology)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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handbooks.
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History
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pilaar Birch, Suzanne E., editor.
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| LC no. |
2017053076 |
| ISBN |
9781317480648 |
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1317480643 |
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9781317480655 |
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1317480651 |
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9781315707709 |
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1315707705 |
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