Multispecies Archaeology

Multispecies Archaeology- Front Cover
Multispecies Archaeology
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of illustrations
	Figures
	Tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Multispecies archaeology in practice
	Living in the “Anthropocene”
	The multispecies ecology of the built environment
	Agrarian commitments: towards an archaeology of symbiosis
	The ecology of movement
	Conclusion
	References
PART I:
Living in the Anthropocene
Chapter 1: Calabrian hounds and roasted ivory (or, swerving from anthropocentrism)
	Epochs, humans, and other species
	The antiquity of other species
	Mammoth protagonists
	Giant species and human origins
	Species memory and the fossil archive
	Notes
	References
Chapter 2: The end of the ‘Neolithic’? At the emergence of the Anthropocene
	The close of an agrarian era?
	The Argive Plain, Greece: flora and their farmers
	Cattle City, Texas: urban herds
	A deep rupture?
	Archaeology unbound?
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: Rehearsing the Anthropocene in microcosm: the palaeoenvironmental
impacts of the Pacific rat (Rattus exulans) and other non-human
species during island Neolithization
	Introduction: Anthropocene as present singular or past plural?
	Neolithic packages as multi-component ecosystems
	Palaeoenvironmental transformations in the Pacific Islands
	Rehearsing the Anthropocene: a drama for several players
	Conclusions: the islands of the day before
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: Trans-Holocene human impacts on California mussels
(Mytilus californianus): historical ecological management
implications from the Northern Channel Islands
	Introduction
	Environmental and cultural background
	California mussel ecology
	Methods and materials
	Results
	Discussion and conclusions
	References
Chapter 5: Drift
	Prelude: Eidsbukta 70.96262°N 26.66342°Ø
	Patina
	Contours
	Tide
	Borderland
	Coincidence
	Drift
	Afterlife
	Environment
	Acknowledgements
	References
PART II:
Multispecies ecology of the built environment
Chapter 6: Symbiotic architectures
	Introduction
	Turf buildings and synanthropic species
	Turf building ecologies
	Turf buildings and symbiosis: traversing the animate/inanimate border
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 7: The eco-ecumene and multispecies history: the case of
abandoned Protestant cemeteries in Poland
	Introduction
	Multispecies history
	Humanitas comes from the Latin humando, meaning ‘burying’
	Cemeteries as an ecosystem and multispecies ecumene
	A proposition for the future
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
Chapter 8: Ecologies of rock and art in northern New Mexico
	Introduction
	From history to place in the Rio Grande Gorge
	Natural signs
	Life on rocks
	Multispecies art
	Notes
	References
Chapter 9: Oysters and mound-islands of Crystal River along the
Central Gulf Coast of Florida
	Introduction
	Shell architecture in the American Southeast
	Crystal River and the Roberts Island Complex
	Investigations at the Roberts Island Complex
	Dwelling in time and the watery landscapes of the Gulf Coast
	Traditions and shellfish
	Conclusions
	Acknowledgments
	Note
	References
Chapter 10: Multispecies dynamics and the ecology of urban spaces
in Roman antiquity
	Introduction
	Animals, nature, numbers, and the ancient city
	Commodity animals in Roman urban environments
	Pet animals in Roman urban environments
	Commensal and scavenger animals in Roman urban environments
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 11: Mammalian community assembly in ancient villages and
towns in the Jordan Valley of Israel
	Introduction
	The zooarchaeological record
	Case studies
	Discussion
	References
PART III:
Agrarian commitments: towards an archaeology of symbiosis
Chapter 12: Animals and the Neolithic: cui bono?
	References
Chapter 13: Making space from the position of duty of care: Early Bronze
Age human-sheep entanglements in Norway
	Introduction
	Interspecies relationships: the complexity
	Symbiosis and social contracts
	A social contract: socio-cultural ramifications
	Domestication discourses
	Domestication as an ethics of care
	A chain of domestications: changes in terms of engagement
	Trust, socialisation and habituation embedded in the architecture
	The power of early socialisation
	Conclusion: who’s who in the Anthropocene
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
Chapter 14: The history of the human microbiome: insights from archaeology
and ancient DNA
	The use of microbiology to examine multispecies archaeology
	The human microbiome
	The evolutionary history of the human microbiome
	Ancient DNA analysis
	Analysis of ancient microbiomes from preserved feces and dental plaque
	The ‘Neolithic Revolution’ and its impacts on human microbiome
	The Industrial Revolution impacts on the human microbiome
	Further alterations to human microbiota in the past century
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 15: An archaeological telling of multispecies co-inhabitation:
comments on the origins of agriculture and domestication
narrative in Southwest Asia
	Introduction
	Neolithic origins narratives
	Domestication and modernity
	Troubling the Neolithic narrative
	When (some) species meet – object(s) 1: carved animal bones
	When (and where) species meet 2: mortuary/burial contexts
	Endwords
	Acknowledgments
	References
PART IV:
The ecology of movement
Chapter 16: Legs, feet and hooves: the seasonal roundup in Iceland
	Introduction
	Becoming with is becoming worldly: landscape inhabitation
	Spatial networks
	Temporal networks
	Networks of social practice
	Sorting fold and earmarks: convergences and transformations
	A species that incarcerates another forges its own chains
	Conclusions
	Note
	References
Chapter 17: The rhythm of life: exploring the role of daily and seasonal rhythms
in the development of human-nonhuman relationships in the
British Early Mesolithic
	Introduction
	Human and nonhuman rhythms
	Tracing Mesolithic rhythms
	Site background and assemblage data
	Daily rhythms
	Inter-personal meetings
	Environmental rhythms
	Seasonal rhythms
	Conclusions
	Note
	References
Chapter 18: Seasonal mobility and multispecies interactions in the
Mesolithic northeastern Adriatic
	Introduction
	Environmental context and seasonality
	Multispecies paleoecology
	Human foraging ecology
	Archaeological context
	Seasonality and terrestrial fauna
	Vela Špilja Lošinj
	Seasonality of marine mollusc collection
	Season of site use
	Discussion: the seasonal round
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 19: The role of ostrich in shaping the landscape use patterns of humans
and hyenas on the southern coast of South Africa during
the late Pleistocene
	Introduction
	Background
	Methods
	Results
	Discussion and conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 20: Prey species movements and migrations in ecocultural landscapes:
reconstructing late Pleistocene herbivore seasonal spatial behaviours
	Introduction
	Spatial aspects of herbivore ethology and behavioural ecology
	Prey species’ movements and migrations in human niche and cultural geographies
	The insufficient analogue
	Reconstructing animal life-histories, past and present
	European reindeer in the late Pleistocene: a case study in isotope palaeoethology using intra-tooth strontium isotope analysis
	Concluding thoughts: towards a framework for prey species spatial palaeoethology and palaeoecology
	Acknowledgements
	References
Index