The Role of Animals in Early Urbanising Society: A Multiscalar Zooarchaeological Analysis of Faunal Remains from Late Chalcolithic Shakhi Kora, Iraqi-

与现代城市社会相关的许多社会政治特征，如中央集权管理、严格的社会等级制度、纪念碑建筑和识字，最早出现在查尔科利特晚期(LC)，也称为美索不达米亚(公元前4000-3100年)的“乌鲁克时期”(公元前4000年至公元前3100年)。这一变革时期的基础是人与动物之间不断变化的关系。动物考古学可以为人类历史上这个关键时刻发生的日常实践提供独特的视角，为经济结构、食物、文化身份和仪式实践提供新的见解。然而，这一潜力尚未完全实现。传统的人与动物关系的方法往往只关注动物生产的单向集约化，而忽视了动物所拥有的中介和社会权力。因此，这些古老的动物除了经济资源外什么都不是，只是有待开发的经济资源。这个博士项目将通过识别动物被处理、消费和丢弃的不同方式，探索LC中人与动物相互作用的另类叙事。该项目还将探索这些不同的人/动物关系的社会影响。这将主要通过对Shakhi Kora的动物群材料进行定性和定量的动物考古分析来实现，Shakhi Kora是一个LC遗址，位于锡尔万/迪亚拉河西岸的伊拉克-库尔德斯坦。这个网站跨越了约1000年的不间断占领，并提供了一个史无前例的机会，详细分析人类/动物关系及其在城市化进程中的作用。我还将对连续采样的绵羊/山羊磨牙进行稳定的同位素研究，这将对这些动物的运动、饮食和繁殖季节性产生高分辨率的洞察。

Many of the socio-political traits associated with modern urban societies, such as centralised administration, strict social hierarchies, monumental architecture, and literacy, first developed in the Late Chalcolithic (LC), also called the 'Uruk Period' (c.4000-3100 BCE), in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Underpinning this transformational period was a changing relationship between humans and animals.Zooarchaeology can offer unique perspectives into the everyday practices that took place at this critical time in human history, providing novel insights into economic structures, foodways, cultural identities, and ritual practices. This potential has yet to be fully realised, however. Traditional approaches to LC human/animal relationships tend to simply focus on the one-way intensification of animal production, and neglects the agency and social power that the animals possess. As such, these ancient animals are rendered as nothing but economic resources to be exploited.This PhD project will explore the alternative narratives of human/animal interactions in the LC, by identifying the varied ways animals were manged, consumed, and discarded. This project will also explore the social implications of these diverse human/animal relationships. This will be achieved primarily through a qualitative and quantitative zooarchaeological analysis of the faunal material from Shakhi Kora, a LC site located in Iraqi-Kurdistan, on the western bank of the Sirwan/Diyala River. This site spans c. 1000 years of uninterrupted occupation and provides an unprecedented opportunity for detailed diachronic analyses of human/animal relationships and their role in urbanising processes. I will also conduct a stable isotopic study of sequentially sampled sheep/goat molars, which will produce high-resolution insights into the movement, diet, and reproductive seasonality of these animals.