Colloquium Africanum 4, Köln 2009
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ISBN 978-3-927688-36-0 Recommended price: 25,00 EUR
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This highly illustrated volume originated in an ACACIA workshop held in 2007 at the University of Cologne. Fourteen papers are assembled under the following five topics: An outline of the workshop’s inspiration (based on a new study of pictorial sources from the Pharaonic era); the state-of-the-art of archaeozoology in the Nile Valley and Egypt’s Western Desert from Late Palaeolithic to Pharaonic times; studies in historical and current species distribution, animal behaviour and conservation; the economic and conceptual roles of hunting and keeping wild animals, from prehistoric to dynastic times; and the cultural reflection of desert animals in ancient Egyptian society and religion. Contributors: Hubert Berke, John C. Darnell, Martin Fitzenreiter, Frank Förster, Jens-Ove Heckel, Stan Hendrickx, Michael Herb, Dirk Huyge, Salima Ikram, Joséphine Lesur-Gebremariam, Veerle Linseele, Nicolas Manlius, John Newby, Laure Pantalacci, Nadja Pöllath, Joachim Friedrich Quack, Heiko Riemer, and Wim Van Neer. Editors: Heiko Riemer is prehistoric archaeologist at the University of Cologne; Frank Förster and Michael Herb are Egyptologists from the same University; and Nadja Pöllath is archaeozoologist at the University of Munich. As researchers of the Collaborative Research Centre ACACIA at the University of Cologne (1995–2007), the editors have cooperated for many years in fieldwork and interdisciplinary studies of ancient Egypt and its desert environments. |