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SUMMARY:Early food production and human-animal relations: Isotopic insight
 s into Neolithic social reconfiguration in the Near East - Prof. Cheryl Ma
 karewicz (University of Kiel)
DTSTART:20201113T131500Z
DTEND:20201113T140000Z
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CONTACT:Alette Blom
DESCRIPTION:First human experimentation with plant cultivation 12\,000 yea
 rs ago took place within the context of community-oriented forms of social
  organization that were constructed and reified by the built environment a
 nd mortuary performance.  The later incorporation of domesticated livestoc
 k into Pre-Pottery Neolithic subsistence systems further increased the rel
 iability and predictability of food available for human consumption\, but 
 also disrupted community cohesion and stimulated a  break from ‘hearth a
 nd home’ . Drawing from the stable isotopic record\, I discuss how shift
 ing scales of mobility and daily practice encouraged this profound social 
 transformation while also critically addressing the challenges in establis
 hing human and animal movement in geologically complex\, semi-arid regions
  such as the southern Levant.
LOCATION:Online via zoom
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