Identifying Animal Management Strategies in Pre-domestication Contexts
Author(s): Lisa Janz
Year: 2023
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.
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Identifying Animal Management Strategies in Pre-domestication Contexts. Lisa Janz. Presented at The 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2023 ( tDAR id: 473692)
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Geographic Keywords
Asia: East Asia
Spatial Coverage
min long: 70.4; min lat: 17.141 ; max long: 146.514; max lat: 53.956 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 36450.0