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Living with Animals: a Zooarchaeological Study of Urban Human-Animal Relationships in Early Modern Tornio, 1621-1800

£22.00
Author:
Anna-Kaisa Puputti
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305769
Paperback:
83pp. Illustrated with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs
ISBN 10:
140730576X
BAR number:
S2100
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
In this work the author describes the animal husbandry practices and the use of wild resources in early modern Tornio (northern Finland) based on zooarchaeological evidence. The animal bone assemblages from Tornio have not previously been published or reported, and the urban animal husbandry practices and the use of wild resources have not been analysed archaeologically, apart from a preliminary analysis of the seventeenth-century faunal materials from two plots. The author uses these results to considerthe connections between animals and urban social interaction, and the changing human-animal and human-environmental relationships in early modern Tornio. In this sense, the study also contributes to the understanding of the emerging modern worldview and social order in the northern European periphery during the early modern period.