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Heiko Reimer, Frank Forster, Michael Herb and Nadja Pollath (eds.), Desert Animals in the Eastern Sahara: Status, Economic Significance, and Cultural Reflection in Antiquity

Heiko Reimer, Frank Forster, Michael Herb and Nadja Pollath (eds.), Desert Animals in the Eastern... Afr Archaeol Rev (2012) 29:71–73 DOI 10.1007/s10437-012-9109-9 BOOK REVIEW Heiko Reimer, Frank Forster, Michael Herb and Nadja Pollath (eds.), Desert Animals in the Eastern Sahara: Status, Economic Significance, and Cultural Reflection in Antiquity Koln, Heinrich-Barth Institut, 2009, 369 pp. (ISBN 978-3-927688-36-0) Michael Brass Published online: 17 March 2012 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 In what is fast becoming a seminal publication, the outcome of a much-needed conference held in December 2007 at the University of Cologne was published in 2009. The interdisciplinary conference brought together archaeologists (including Egyptologists), archaeozoologists, art historians, biologists, conservationists, ecologists and zoologists under the auspices of ACACIA (Arid Climate, Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa). The themes running through the resulting publication are three-fold: (1) what have been the human and climatic impacts on the animals which lived in the Eastern Sahara, (2) to what extent does the cultural representation of the animals reflect the importance in which they were held by human groups, and (3) how do these representations inform the conceptual construction and subsequent perpetuation of wild animals in the Predynastic and Dynastic economies and ideologies? As such, in many ways the archaeology of Northeast Africa is finally beginning to catch up http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African Archaeological Review Springer Journals

Heiko Reimer, Frank Forster, Michael Herb and Nadja Pollath (eds.), Desert Animals in the Eastern Sahara: Status, Economic Significance, and Cultural Reflection in Antiquity

African Archaeological Review , Volume 29 (1) – Mar 17, 2012

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2012 by Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Subject
Social Sciences; Archaeology; Anthropology; Regional and Cultural Studies
ISSN
0263-0338
eISSN
1572-9842
DOI
10.1007/s10437-012-9109-9
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Afr Archaeol Rev (2012) 29:71–73 DOI 10.1007/s10437-012-9109-9 BOOK REVIEW Heiko Reimer, Frank Forster, Michael Herb and Nadja Pollath (eds.), Desert Animals in the Eastern Sahara: Status, Economic Significance, and Cultural Reflection in Antiquity Koln, Heinrich-Barth Institut, 2009, 369 pp. (ISBN 978-3-927688-36-0) Michael Brass Published online: 17 March 2012 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 In what is fast becoming a seminal publication, the outcome of a much-needed conference held in December 2007 at the University of Cologne was published in 2009. The interdisciplinary conference brought together archaeologists (including Egyptologists), archaeozoologists, art historians, biologists, conservationists, ecologists and zoologists under the auspices of ACACIA (Arid Climate, Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa). The themes running through the resulting publication are three-fold: (1) what have been the human and climatic impacts on the animals which lived in the Eastern Sahara, (2) to what extent does the cultural representation of the animals reflect the importance in which they were held by human groups, and (3) how do these representations inform the conceptual construction and subsequent perpetuation of wild animals in the Predynastic and Dynastic economies and ideologies? As such, in many ways the archaeology of Northeast Africa is finally beginning to catch up

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African Archaeological ReviewSpringer Journals

Published: Mar 17, 2012

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