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

动物在早期城市化社会中的作用：对伊拉克红铜时代晚期 Shakhi Kora 动物遗骸的多尺度动物考古学分析

• 批准号: 2881573
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2881573
• 关键词: Role; Animals; Early; Urbanising; Society

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.

许多与现代城市社会相关的社会政治特征，如中央管理，严格的社会等级制度，纪念性建筑和识字，首先在美索不达米亚（现代伊拉克）的铜器时代晚期（LC），也被称为“古希腊时期”（公元前4000 -3100年）发展起来。这一转型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一关键时期的日常实践提供独特的视角，为经济结构，饮食方式，文化身份和仪式习俗提供新的见解。然而，这一潜力尚未充分实现。传统的LC人/动物关系的研究方法往往简单地关注动物生产的单向集约化，而忽视了动物所拥有的能动性和社会权力。因此，这些古老的动物被渲染为经济资源被利用。这个博士项目将探索LC中人/动物相互作用的替代叙述，通过识别动物被宰杀，消耗和丢弃的各种方式。该项目还将探讨这些不同的人类/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是位于Sirwan/Diyala河西岸的伊拉克库尔德斯坦的一个LC遗址。本网站使用C。1000年不间断的占领，并提供了一个前所未有的机会，详细的历时分析人/动物的关系和他们在城市化进程中的作用。我还将对连续采样的绵羊/山羊臼齿进行稳定同位素研究，这将对这些动物的运动，饮食和生殖季节性产生高分辨率的见解。