Flattening the Wild in the Ancient Near East

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ID4587407
AutoresBenjamin S Arbuckle (0000-0002-5445-5516), Christine Mikeska, Christine A Mikeska (0000-0002-2122-7269), Theo Mcleod Kassebaum
Ano2022
Volume85
Fascículo4
Páginas248-257
Data de publicação2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNear Eastern Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1094-2076 • E-ISSN: 1557-5594
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/722266
OpenAlexW4311183463
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas25

In this article the authors explore the impact of wild-domestic dualisms on how wild animals are conceived and framed in the zooarchaeology of the ancient Near East. They argue that this dominant framework flattens the wild into an artificially homogenous entity and funnels scholarly engagement with wild animals into a narrow range of topics. They explore examples from the archaeozoological literature as well as ancient texts that suggest that rather than being peripheral and exotic participants, wild animals were ubiquitous and important contributors to hybrid, multispecies Bronze Age societies. They further suggest a more robust zooarchaeology of the wild through application of flat ontologies and related decentering frameworks

Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze · Bronze Age · Genealogy · Geography · Sociology · Zooarchaeology · Ancient Near East History · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History