Zoia. Animal-Human Interactions in the Aegean Middle and Late BronzeAge
Proceedings of the 18th International Aegean Conference, originally tobe held at the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, in the Departmentof Classics, the University of Texas at Austin, May 28-31, 2020
Edited by R. Laffineur Edited by T.G. Palaima
The 18th International Aegean Conference on the subject of Zoia (literally ‘creatures endowed with an anima or life force’) was conceived and organized by Robert Laffineur and Tom Palaima, director of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP) in the Department of Classics at The University of Texas at Austin, marking 30 years of their collaboration on Aegaeum volumes and conferences. In the event, Covid-19 forced the cancellation of the conference proper. This volume, however, testifies to the dedication of Aegeanist scholars worldwide to accomplish the scholarly objectives of the proposed conference: to examine, from a wide range of specialist research perspectives, how the human societies that developed in the Aegean area in the Middle and Late Bronze Age and the human beings within them interacted with wild, domesticated and semi-domesticated animals of the sea, sky and land socio-politically, economically, religiously, ideologically, imaginatively and artistically. Diamantis Panagiotopoulos stresses in his keynote paper that the 28 papers in Zoia reflect “the dynamic development of Human-Animal Studies” in the last two decades. Papers are grouped under five main topics: identification of the animal environment; human uses of domesticated and wild animals, material economy, diet and society; hybrid and fantastic creatures in animal iconography (seals, frescoes and other forms of representation); animals in beliefs and religion (their contemporary symbolic uses and later uses as relics or heirlooms); and animals in texts (Indo-European and non-Indo-European; Cretan Pictographic, Linear A, Linear B and later Homeric and historical Greek). The results are comprehensive, eclectic, scientifically informative and intellectually provocative. They help us see protohistoric Aegean cultures as the non-human animals inextricably linked to them saw them.
- Edited by R. Laffineur
- Edited by T.G. Palaima
Other Titles in this Series
Physis
L'environnement naturel et la relation homme-milieu dans le monde égéen protohistorique
Volume 37
Le miroir en Égée à l’âge du Bronze récent
Formes, fonctions, usages et trajectoires entre le XVIe et le XIe siècle
Volume 48
MNHMH / MNEME. Past and Memory in the Aegean Bronze Age
Proceedings of the 17th International Aegean Conference, University of Udine, Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Humanities, 17-21 April 2018
Volume 43
Neôteros
Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology in Honor of ProfessorJohn G. Younger on the Occasion of his Retirement
Volume 44
Hesperos. The Aegean Seen from the West
Proceedings of the 16th International Aegean Conference
Volume 41
Kosmos. Jewellery, Adornment and Textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age
Proceedings of the 13th International Aegean Conference / 13e Rencontre égéenne internationale, University of Copenhagen, Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Textile Research, 21-26 April 2010
Volume 33
HYDOR. Water Resources and Management in the Aegean Bronze Age
Proceedings of the 20th Rencontre égéenne internationale/International Aegean Conference, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Centre for Ancient Studies & Archaeology, 11-16 June, 2024
Volume 50
IXNH. Walking in the Footsteps of the Pioneer of Aegean Archaeology in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Heinrich Schliemann
Proceedings of the 19th International Aegean Conference/19e Rencontre égéenne internationale, Centro Internazionale per la Ricerca sulle Civiltà Egee “Pierre Carlier”, Comune di Oristano e Fondazione Oristano, Università degli Studi di Sassari, May 1
Volume 49
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