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

许多与现代城市社会相关的社会政治特征，如集中管理、严格的社会等级、纪念性建筑和识字，首先在美索不达米亚（现代伊拉克）的晚期铜石器时代（LC）发展起来，也被称为“乌鲁克时期”（公元前4000-3100年）。支撑这一转变时期的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活动提供独特的视角，为经济结构、食物方式、文化认同和仪式实践提供新的见解。然而，这种潜力尚未得到充分实现。传统的LC方法倾向于简单地关注动物生产的单向集约化，而忽略了动物拥有的代理和社会权力。这样，这些古老的动物就变成了可供开发的经济资源。这个博士项目将通过确定动物被管理、消耗和丢弃的不同方式，探索LC中人类/动物相互作用的另一种叙述。这个项目还将探讨这些不同的人类/动物关系的社会含义。这将主要通过对Shakhi Kora（位于伊拉克-库尔德斯坦锡尔万/迪亚拉河西岸的LC遗址）的动物群材料进行定性和定量的动物考古学分析来实现。该遗址跨越了约1000年的不间断占领，为详细分析人类/动物关系及其在城市化进程中的作用提供了前所未有的机会。我还将对绵羊/山羊臼齿的顺序取样进行稳定同位素研究，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见解。

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.