Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia

Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9781000763867
ISBN-13 : 1000763862
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Book Synopsis Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia by : Jill Goulder

Download or read book Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia written by Jill Goulder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia: Insights from Modern Development Studies is a reassessment of the role and impact of working-animal adoption in antiquity, focusing on 4th-3rd millennium BC Mesopotamia but applicable to other periods and regions. This book is driven by a novel interdisciplinary process of analogy with modern use of working donkeys and cattle in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. The author uses close qualitative analysis of nearly 400 published official and NGO development studies of the complex practicalities of adoption of working animals in developing regions worldwide, in particular of the invisible and under-appreciated donkey. This material, little-used as yet in Ancient Near Eastern archaeology, sheds light on the day-to-day practicalities of working-animal adoption and management – breeding, training, husbandry, hiring and lending. While archaeology will always have need of large-scale anthropological models, the author argues for a parallel bottom-up ethological approach, envisaging the 4th and 3rd millennia BC in Mesopotamia from a viewpoint explicitly acknowledging the major presence of working animals and their daily impact on human activity and the consequent archaeological record. This innovatory investigation of the role and impact of the donkey in the Ancient Near East and today is an essential handbook for Ancient Near Eastern archaeology and zooarchaeology researchers and students, as well as historians, anthropologists and ethnographers examining the impact of working animals on past and present societies. Wider audiences include the growing sector of human-animal relationship studies, and NGOs concerned with the use of working donkeys worldwide.


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