Dear Colleagues,
Ever since the Neolithic domestication, animals induce got been business office of everyday human life, imagination, in addition to religion. In antiquity, many human pursuits, from plowing the plain to fighting on the battlefield, from consumption of nutrient to sacrificing to the gods, were shaped by, in addition to relied upon, a symbiotic or interdependent human relationship amongst animals. Animals were hunted or tamed, kept for amusement or fifty-fifty worshipped. Material civilisation provides of import prove every bit representations in addition to illustrations, expressions in addition to mediations of ancient ideas in addition to attitudes about, likewise every bit experiences in addition to interactions amongst the creature Blue Planet which surrounded them. Iconographic representations may, for instance, reverberate social condition every bit much every bit religious practices. Such imagery tin offering visual clues for the dissemination of creature husbandry likewise every bit for beliefs inward mythic creatures.
The theme of this Special Issue, "Animals inward Ancient Material Cultures", broadly includes the Mediterranean Blue Planet in addition to the Near East, from ca. 10,000 ʙᴄᴇ to 500 ᴄᴇ (although exceptions inward catamenia or part may endure considered). Approaching this dependent area from a wide chronological in addition to geographical perspective allows the contributors to focus on a specific region, period, animal, and/or creature. Papers may describe on (zoo-)archaeological, physical, visual, and/or cultural cloth to essay out the dispersal in addition to exchange, appropriation, in addition to acculturation of practices in addition to beliefs. This Special Issue aims to convey together specialists from unlike fields of expertise, including but non limited to fine art history, ancient history, classics, classical archaeology, in addition to zooarchaeology. Proposed subjects comprise topics such every bit pastoralism, human–animal relations, iconography, in addition to cultic practices.
The principal operate of this outset book is to convey together a collection of papers associated amongst 2 dissever conferences on animals inward antiquity, namely, "The Living World of Animals inward Antiquity", a panel organized past times Sian Lewis in addition to Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones at the Eighth Celtic Conference inward Classics, on 25–28 June 2014, at the University of Edinburgh, in addition to "Animals inward Ancient Material Cultures", organized past times the undersigned at the Allard Pierson Museum, on 15–16 Oct 2015. Contributions are invited for a minute book on the same subject.
Dr. Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter
Dr. Chiara Cavallo
Guest Editors
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