Recent, non-anthropocentric explorations of the interaction between human and non-human
animals have resulted in many groundbreaking studies. In this 'animal turn' …

The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural
surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented …

The Archaeology of Food explains how archaeologists reconstruct what people ate, and
how such reconstructions reveal ancient political struggles, religious practices, ethnic …

For Jorge Luis Borges, local color was overrated. In “the argentine writer and
tradition”(1951), borges responded to the charges of critics who valued indigenous traditions …

While agricultural origins have been recently revised in light of new genetic and
archaeological evidence, parallel synthesis of subsequent developments in agricultural …

It is well known that Anglo-Saxon England witnessed dramatic changes in landscape
organization, economy and social structure but this paper aims to demonstrate how a more …

In this book, Krish Seetah uses butchery as a point of departure for exploring the changing
historical relationships between animal utility, symbolism, and meat consumption. Seetah …

The discovery in Llanmaes, South Wales, of a large midden dating from the Early Iron Age
provided an opportunity to deepen our understanding of feasting in late prehistoric Britain …

Ethnographic descriptions of feasts reveal that consumption of meat is usually prominent.
Zooarchaeological evidence may thus provide the best way of seeing feasts in the …

This paper presents the results of the first comprehensive scientific study of the fallow deer, a
non-native species whose medieval-period introduction to Britain transformed the cultural …