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Cotsen Friday Seminar Series: If Animals Could Only Talk
If Animals Could Only Talk: Rethinking Food Provisioning in Complex Societies and Urban Centers Professor Levent Atici, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
| What | Cotsen Advanced Seminar |
|---|---|
| When |
May 18, 2012 04:00 PM
May 18, 2012 06:00 PM
May 18, 2012 from 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm |
| Where | A222 Fowler |
| Contact Name | Hannah Lau |
| Contact Email | Hannah.Lau@ucla.edu |
| Contact Phone | 310-825-4169 |
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Atici will probe whether there is a correlation between patterns of
sociopolitical organization and of animal exploitation using
archaeofaunal assemblages from Kültepe/Kanesh, capital of the
Assyrian Trading Colonies in Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age (ca.
2000-1750 BC). A large corpus of cuneiform tablets written in an Old
Assyrian dialect unearthed at the celebrated Kültepe/Kanesh provide
direct evidence for many aspects of life including animal food
consumption patterns during the Middle Bronze Age in central Anatolia.
Hence, Kültepe/Kanesh provides us with a unique opportunity to
investigate and test the relationships between textual and
archaeological evidence. Given that various socioeconomic aspects of the
Bronze Age societies have been studied from the perspective of
archaeology and philology, a zooarchaeological approach with specific
reference to food acquisition, production, consumption, and
redistribution techniques at Kültepe/Kanesh can provide fresh insights
into life during the Middle Bronze Age. I also seek to test assumptions
about urban food provisioning strategies and to answer whether there is
such a phenomenon as a “typical” urban faunal assemblage.
Co-sponsored with the UCLA G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies
