Food Provisioning in Complex Societies - Zooarchaeological Perspectives

Through creative combinations of ethnohistoric evidence, iconography, and contextual analysis of faunal remains, this work offers new insight into the mechanisms involved in food provisioning for complex societies.

About the author

Levent Atici is professor of anthropology and executive director of Undergraduate Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His zooarchaeological research covers the full spectrum of human-animal interactions with special emphases on the origins and spread of domesticated animals and specialized pastoral economies of early complex societies in southwest Asia in general and Turkey in particular.

Benjamin S. Arbuckle is professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a zooarchaeologist whose research focuses on human-animal interactions in ancient Anatolia (modern Turkey). He is coeditor of Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World.

Summary

Through creative combinations of ethnohistoric evidence, iconography, and contextual analysis of faunal remains, this work offers new insight into the mechanisms involved in food provisioning for complex societies.

Product details

• Authors: Levent Atici, Levent (EDT)/ Arbuckle Atici
• Assisted by: Benjamin S. Arbuckle (Editor), Levent Atici (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press Of Colorado
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2022
• EAN: 9781646420988
• ISBN: 978-1-64642-098-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology