A manifesto for a social zooarchaeology. Swans and other beings in the Mesolithic
Recent, non-anthropocentric explorations of the interaction between human and non-human animals have resulted in many groundbreaking studies. In this 'animal turn', zooarchaeology, which deals with and has access to the material traces of animals that existed alongside humans over the last...
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ftumanchesterpub:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/5f6242e1-9e4d-41b5-8baf-0b2c06fbc6f5 2023-11-12T04:27:57+01:00 A manifesto for a social zooarchaeology. Swans and other beings in the Mesolithic Overton, Nick J. Hamilakis, Yannis 2013-12 https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/5f6242e1-9e4d-41b5-8baf-0b2c06fbc6f5 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203813000159 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Overton , N J & Hamilakis , Y 2013 , ' A manifesto for a social zooarchaeology. Swans and other beings in the Mesolithic ' , Archaeological Dialogues , vol. 20 , no. 2 , pp. 111-136 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203813000159 animal studies anthropocentrism archaeology Mesolithic zoontology article 2013 ftumanchesterpub https://doi.org/10.1017/S1380203813000159 2023-10-30T09:13:40Z Recent, non-anthropocentric explorations of the interaction between human and non-human animals have resulted in many groundbreaking studies. In this 'animal turn', zooarchaeology, which deals with and has access to the material traces of animals that existed alongside humans over the last 2.5 million years, could occupy a privileged and influential position. Despite some encouraging efforts, however, zooarchaeology's ability to contribute to these discussions is heavily limited by the subdiscipline's firm footing within anthropocentric ontologies and reductionist epistemologies. This paper outlines a framework for a new social zooarchaeology that moves beyond the paradigm and discourse of 'subsistence' and of representationist and dichotomous thinking, which have treated non-human animals merely and often exclusively as nutritional or symbolic resources for the benefit of humans. Building on alternative zoontologies which reinstate the position of non-human animals as sentient and autonomous agents, this framework foregrounds the intercorporeal, sensuous and affective engagements through which humans and non-human animals are mutually constituted. These ideas are illustrated with two case studies focusing on human-whooper swan interactions in the Danish Later Mesolithic, based on the faunal assemblage from the site of Aggersund in North Jutland, and the whooper swan remains found associated with the Grave 8 at Vedbæk. © Cambridge University Press 2013. Article in Journal/Newspaper Whooper Swan The University of Manchester: Research Explorer Archaeological Dialogues 20 2 111 136 |
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Recent, non-anthropocentric explorations of the interaction between human and non-human animals have resulted in many groundbreaking studies. In this 'animal turn', zooarchaeology, which deals with and has access to the material traces of animals that existed alongside humans over the last 2.5 million years, could occupy a privileged and influential position. Despite some encouraging efforts, however, zooarchaeology's ability to contribute to these discussions is heavily limited by the subdiscipline's firm footing within anthropocentric ontologies and reductionist epistemologies. This paper outlines a framework for a new social zooarchaeology that moves beyond the paradigm and discourse of 'subsistence' and of representationist and dichotomous thinking, which have treated non-human animals merely and often exclusively as nutritional or symbolic resources for the benefit of humans. Building on alternative zoontologies which reinstate the position of non-human animals as sentient and autonomous agents, this framework foregrounds the intercorporeal, sensuous and affective engagements through which humans and non-human animals are mutually constituted. These ideas are illustrated with two case studies focusing on human-whooper swan interactions in the Danish Later Mesolithic, based on the faunal assemblage from the site of Aggersund in North Jutland, and the whooper swan remains found associated with the Grave 8 at Vedbæk. © Cambridge University Press 2013. |
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