Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia: Insights from Modern Development Studies

ISBN-13: 9781032083810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str.

Jill Goulder

Opis

Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia: Insights from Modern Development Studies is a reassessment of the role and impact of working-animal adoption in antiquity, focusing on 4^th-3^rd millennium BC Mesopotamia but applicable to other periods and regions.

Spis treści

1. Working Donkeys Then and Now: Approaches and Contexts;  2. Working Animals in Antiquity;  3. Donkeys Versus Cattle;  4.Working-Animal Supply Logistics;  5. Training, Husbandry and Feeding;   6. Transport;  7. Rethinking Animal Ploughing;  8.Summing up: the way forward

 

 

O autorze

Jill Goulder, after an earlier career in industrial marketing research, earned a PhD at the Institute of Archaeology UCL in 2018, employing modern development study material from Africa and elsewhere to provide insights into the early systematic use of working animals in Mesopotamia. See www.jgoulder.com/archaeology.