Animals and inequality in Chalcolithic central Anatolia

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• 作者：Benjamin S. Arbuckle ^{benjamin_arbuckle@baylor.edu}
• 关键词：Sheep ; Goats ; Herd management ; Chalcolithic ; Social complexity ; Anatolia
• 刊名：Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：136_02784165
• 类别：soc
• 出版时间：September, 2012
• 卷：31
• 期：3
• 页码：302-313
• 文件大小：848 K

摘要

This paper explores the changing social and economic roles of livestock within three increasingly complex societies in Chalcolithic central Anatolia. By specifically addressing practices associated with the production, distribution and consumption of livestock, particularly sheep and goats, I show how changes in the use of animals were dynamically linked to the emergence of new sociopolitical environments. These changes, including the development of intensive caprine pastoralism and complex provisioning systems as well as an increased focus on the production of secondary products, strongly suggest that control over animals, particularly sheep, and their products played a central role in the development of increasingly complex and hierarchical social systems in MC Anatolia.