Session: #754

Session, made up of a combination of papers, max. 15 minutes each

Human communities and their subsistence practices adapted to and shaped landscape components such as vegetation, water resources, soil etc. Archaeozoological, biomolecular, archaeobotanical and paleo-environmental datasets offer, separately, important insights into animal husbandry, foddering strategies and how these changed the landscape and influenced the socio-economic organisation. How did different modes of pastoral practices impact the environment? And how can we detect these modes in the fossil record? Integrating different datasets provide us greater insight into animal husbandry, such as the use of space and plant resources, on different scales both geographically and chronologically. This can be methodologically challenging, but also lead to increased resolution in our understanding of past human societies and pastoral activities. We seek contributions from researchers integrating multiple lines of evidence, particularly combining archaeobotanical, archaeozoological and organic chemical analyses for characterising husbandry practices in different ecological settings and temporal frameworks within Europe. We wish to stimulate discussion on how to overcome methodological challenges and we aim for a session that moves beyond traditional methodologies, overcoming discipline boundaries, and that integrates the work of archaeologists and specialists together, in order to generate a greater understanding of past human populations lifeways.

animal husbandry, foddering, vegetation, multi-proxy

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Dr. Marta Dal Corso (Germany) ^1,2

Natàlia Égüez (Spain) ^3,1
Dr. Rosalind E. Gillis (Germany) ¹