Our Deer Relations: a deep time, holistic study of the relationship between red deer and people in Scotland

这个项目探索了马鹿的悖论；这个物种今天被认为是高地的象征，但在过去人们对它的了解很少。虽然大西洋海岸的地区性研究提供了诱人的关于高地和岛屿大学内零星移位、牛群管理甚至驯化的一瞥SGSAH Rd1：博士开放学生奖学金2022-23申请15史前和史前时期的第8页，这个项目将提供第一个关于马鹿和人之间关系的随时间推移的全国性研究。动物考古学方法将与对马鹿的文化意义的评估相结合，以探索这种关系在整个苏格兰从第一个人类到中世纪高峰期的变化。

This project explores theparadox of red deer; a species held as emblemic of the Highlands today, yet poorly understood in the deep past.Whilst regionalstudies along the Atlantic coast provide tantalising glimpses ofsporadictranslocation, herd management and even domesticationwithin University of the Highlands and IslandsSGSAH RD1: PhD Open Studentships 2022-23ApplicationPage 8of 15the prehistoric and protohistoric periods, this project will deliver the first nationalstudy of the relationship between red deer and peoplethrough time. Zooarchaeological approaches will be combined with an appraisal of the cultural significanceof red deer to explore variations in this relationshipacrossScotland, from its first peopling through tohighmedieveal times