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DOCUMENT Citation Only Aripekka Junno. Hirofumi Kato. Sven Isaksson. Peter Jordan.

This paper investigates long-term human-animal interactions among Okhotsk cultures in Hokkaido, northern Japan. The Okhotsk Culture were maritime foragers and traders who expanded out from the Amur into Hokkaido and Sakhalin Island from about AD 600, with many of their distinctive traits and practices such as elaborate bear ceremonialism and other hunting rituals persisting into the historic Ainu cultures. Our ongoing research aims to understand the origins, spatiotemporal variability and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jasmine Lundy. Michelle M Alexander.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islamic material culture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The multifaith society of Medieval Spain experienced dramatic transitions between periods of Christian and Muslim political rule with shifting geographical frontiers. The coexistence of multiple faiths within this dynamic socio-political landscape influenced the practices of daily life such as cuisine. Diet and identity are inextricably linked....