Farm, Hunt, Feast, Celebrate : : Animals and Society in Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age Northern France.

• Author: Auxiette, Ginette.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hachem, Lamys.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Sidestone Press,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 pages)

Building on the experience of twenty-five years of fieldwork and archaeozoological analyses carried out during research projects in various regions of northern France, this book examines animal husbandry and hunting practices over the 5000 year period from the first sedentary groups to the more evol...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Chrono-cultural background
• The Neolithic
• The Bronze Age
• The Iron Age
• 2. Domestic consumption on habitation sites
• The Metal Ages
• The Neolithic
• 3. Collective meals
• The Neolithic
• The Bronze Age and the Iron Age
• 4. Cultural manifestations
• Deposits containing entire animals, or animal parts, in "domestic" contexts
• The Neolithic
• The Bronze Age and the Iron Age
• Animal deposits in Y- and W-shaped pits: The Neolithic and Bronze Age
• 5. The animal in the funerary realm
• The Neolithic
• The Bronze Age and the Iron Age
• 6. Throwing light on social mechanisms
• An overview of Neolithic socio-economic systems
• An overview of Bronze and Iron Age socio-economic systems
• Evolution of cultual expressions through the ages
• The question of animal sacrifice through the ages
• 7. General conclusion
• References
• Appendices
• Biographies
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