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‘Sheep are your mother’: Rhyta and the interspecies politics in the Neolithic of the eastern Adriatic

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: This paper explores the relations between humans and animals through material culture, or more specifically, four-footed vessels also called rhyta (sing. rhyton). I want to suggest that rhyta are not merely artistic representations of something or some kind of cult paraphernalia, but that they embody effective social agency. I place them in the context of human-animal or interspecies politics in the Neolithic of the eastern Adriatic.

Source: Documenta Praehistorica

DOI: 10.4312/dp.34.20

Author: Dimitrij Mlekuž

Institutions: University of Ljubljana, Academic and Research Network of Slovenia

Language: English

Topic: Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Subfield: Paleontology

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2134654458

FWCI: 1.015

Cites: 28

Cited by: 23

Related to: 10