In this paper, we aim to investigate changes in sociocultural traditions and innovations that involved humananimal interaction. Our aim is to stress that these relationships did not always follow cause-effect and evolutionary trajectories. Instead, they refl ected non-linear and rhizomatic patterns depending on the diversity of the social, economic and cultural structures inventing, adopting, re-appropriating or rejecting them. In particular, we would like to identify the different roles of specialised animal husbandry strategies in different social and chronological contexts and understand how and where a secondary product revolution (SPR) did or did not accompany the emergence of political hierarchies. Our site of reference is Arslantepe in eastern Anatolia, which, during the late 4th and early 3rd millennium BC, provides the backdrop to the development of a complex relationship between cultural change and innovation, linked to trans-regional interaction networks in which the communities living on the site were engaged.
Uruk, Pastoralism and Secondary Products: Was it a Revolution? A View from the Anatolian Highlands
G. Palumbi
2017-01-01
Abstract
In this paper, we aim to investigate changes in sociocultural traditions and innovations that involved humananimal interaction. Our aim is to stress that these relationships did not always follow cause-effect and evolutionary trajectories. Instead, they refl ected non-linear and rhizomatic patterns depending on the diversity of the social, economic and cultural structures inventing, adopting, re-appropriating or rejecting them. In particular, we would like to identify the different roles of specialised animal husbandry strategies in different social and chronological contexts and understand how and where a secondary product revolution (SPR) did or did not accompany the emergence of political hierarchies. Our site of reference is Arslantepe in eastern Anatolia, which, during the late 4th and early 3rd millennium BC, provides the backdrop to the development of a complex relationship between cultural change and innovation, linked to trans-regional interaction networks in which the communities living on the site were engaged.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
