Identifying Animal Management Strategies in Pre-domestication Contexts

Summary

This is an abstract from the "From the Altai to the Arctic: New Results and New Directions in the Archaeology of North and Inner Asia" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The concept of domestication highlights a form of human intervention in animal reproduction that is at the extreme in a continuum of human-animal relations. Despite the extreme nature of this category of interaction, domestication remains difficult to distinguish archaeologically and biologically. Moreover, there is increasing reason to believe that pre-domestication forms of management would have preceded biologically and archaeologically recognizable forms of domestication by hundreds or likely thousands of years. Such forms of human-animal relations are even more challenging to recognize in the archaeological record. This presentation frames the question of hunter-gatherer herd management within the context of a 7,000–8,000-year-old habitation site in far eastern Mongolia.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• From the Altai to the Arctic: New Results and New Directions in the Archaeology of North and Inner Asia   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36450.0