Theme:
6. A Decade after the ‘Third Science Revolution in Archaeology’
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Revisiting Husbandry and Subsistence in Southwestern Asia Using Integrated Approaches and the Latest Development in Bioarchaeology
Content:
Animal husbandry is a fundamental component of the economy of agropastoral societies since the beginning of the domestication of ungulates. It can be defined, in zootechny, as a technical sub-system of resource exploitation articulated around the breeders, the herds and the environment. Domestication also revolutionised means of food procurements and introduced new commodities in human diet such as dairy products. For nearly ten millennia, in Southwest Asia, animal husbandry and pastoralism, especially of caprine, have played a major role in the development of societies.
Animal husbandry studies in archaeology allows a better understanding of the economic and socio-cultural systems of past societies by investigating the available resources, as well as the needs, practices and traditions associated with the exploitation of these resources. However, a comprehensive understanding of animal husbandry and exploitation remain difficult to attain due to the relative scarcity of archaeological remains compared to the abundance and diversity of past activities. Over the last decades, pluridisciplinary studies on bioarchaeological remains are becoming more common and allow a better understanding of animal husbandry and their exploitation for food procurement.
This session seeks to bring together papers presenting cross-disciplinary studies on bioarchaeological remains from the beginnings of domestication to explore husbandry and subsistence in Southwestern Asia. We particularly focus on recent bioarchaeological tools which allow to go beyond and complement the traditional methods. We welcome pluridisciplinary contributions such as - but not limited to - geometrics morphometric, seasonality, cementochronology, organic residues analyses, isotopic, proteomic and genetic methods applied to husbandry and subsistence in this region.
Keywords:
South-West Asia, husbandry, subsistence, pluridisciplinary approach
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Emmanuelle Casanova (France) 1
Co-organisers:
Manon Vuillien (France) 1
Hossein Davoudi (Iran) 2
Affiliations:
1. UMR7209 Archaeozoology and Archaeobotany: Societies Practices and Environments, National Museum of Natural History, CNRS
2. Archaeozoological section, Bioarchaeological laboratory, University of Tehran
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