Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia
eBook - ePub

Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia

Insights from Modern Development Studies

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia

Insights from Modern Development Studies

Book details
Table of contents
Citations

About This Book

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.

Frequently asked questions

Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on “Cancel Subscription” - it’s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time you’ve paid for. Learn more here.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes, you can access Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia by Jill Goulder in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Geschichte & Altertum. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
ISBN
9781000763867
Edition
1
Topic
Geschichte
Subtopic
Altertum

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of figures
  9. List of tables
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Preface
  12. 1 Working donkeys then and now: approaches and contexts
  13. 2 Working animals in antiquity
  14. 3 Donkeys versus cattle
  15. 4 Working-animal supply logistics
  16. 5 Training, husbandry and feeding
  17. 6 Transport
  18. 7 Rethinking animal ploughing
  19. 8 Summing up: the way forward
  20. Appendices
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index