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21) Animal mummies
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
From baboons to bulls, crocodiles to cows, a vast menagerie of animal mummies lie buried in Egyptian catacombs. Hi-tech imaging is now revealing what's inside the bundles and the strange role that animals played in ancient Egyptian beliefs.
Author
Series
Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University volume 56, no. 3-5
Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University volume 56, no. 3 and 4
Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University volume 56, no. 3 and 4
Publisher
Peabody Museum
Language
English
Author
Series
Schriften zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte volume 46
Publisher
Akademie Verlag
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
Deutsch
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"This is the first book to provide an overview and systematic examination of social zooarchaeology, a new approach that takes a holistic veiw of human-animal relations in the past. Until very recently, zooarchaeology was heavily focused on diet and subsistence economy, especially for prehistoric periods. This book argues that animals have always played much broader roles in human societies: as wealth, companions, spirit helpers, socrificial victims,...
29) Anthropological approaches to zooarchaeology: complexity, colonialism, and animal transformations
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Flakes, and small flakes in particular, are usually seen as by-products or debris of the knapping process, rather than as desired end-products with a specific potential use. In recent years, this particular category of small tools has attracted increasing interest among researchers, especially when focusing on technological aspects in Lower Palaeolithic contexts, while the functional role of these tools is still poorly investigated. 'Understanding...