Bruno Latour and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro provided the initial impetus for explicitly
ontological research in archaeology. Their impact on archaeologists, however, has been …

Proboscideans and humans have shared habitats across the Old and New Worlds for
hundreds of thousands of years. Proboscideans were included in the human diet starting …

Archaeology is a field of research that relies largely on the remains of past humans and
nonhuman animals and the traces of their interactions within a range of material conditions …

Pastoral nomadism encompasses an array of specialized knowledge concerned with the
daily rhythms and long-term tempos of caring for herd animals in order to extract subsistence …

Late Pleistocene hominins co-evolved with non-analogue assemblages of carnivores and
carnivorous omnivores. Although previous work has carefully examined the ecological and …

This book is written to fill two gaps in anthropology, in two of the discipline's research fields,
the one in hunter-gatherer studies, specifically its subfield of Bushman studies, the other in …

Compassionate conservation is based on the ethical position that actions taken to protect
biodiversity should be guided by compassion for all sentient beings. Critics argue that there …

Donkeys carried Christ into Jerusalem while in Greek myth they transported Hephaistos up
to Mount Olympos and Dionysos into battle against the Giants. They were probably the first …

Dogs' relationship with humans is pervasive and familiar, and human-dog social bonds
serve multiple functions. Yet the breadth and depth of this variation is poorly understood …

'Agency', the concept, its connections to ontology and its uses within archaeological theory,
are discussed and criticized. In recent archaeological theory, the term 'agency'has been …