Cattle Production and Strategic Meat Distribution in Egypt and Nubia

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Breaking the Mold: A Consideration of the Impacts and Legacies of Richard W. Redding" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Richard Reddings‘s (1992) model developed at the site of Kom el-Hisn offered a means of understanding strategies by which ancient societies could strategically raise animals for the purpose of provisioning communities in multiple locations. This model proved useful for understanding meat provisioning strategies at the Egyptian fortress of Askut in Nubia (ca. 1850–1550 BC), in which local herders may have raised cattle for provisioning fortress residents while themselves consuming caprines.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Breaking the Mold: A Consideration of the Impacts and Legacies of Richard W. Redding   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38902.0