Wild Meets Domestic in the Near Eastern Neolithic

Russell, Nerissa

doi:10.3390/ani12182335

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“…Herding also brought in changes in the organisation of labour, and sedentism created stronger ties with the local environment (Russell 2016). The Neolithic is also the time when separated categories of wild and domestic were created, and certain dichotomies between "the domestic" and "the wild" may be noted in numerous past communities, including the Early Neolithic ones (Hodder 1990;Russell 2022). Nerissa Russell, who analysed the humananimal relations among the earliest Neolithic communities in south-western Asia, noted that wild animals dominated the symbolic sphere of myth and ritual (Russell 2016, p. 24).…”

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Taking the Deer by the Antlers: Deer in Material Culture in the Balkan Neolithic

Vitezović

2024

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Prehistoric communities had strong ties with the animal world that surrounded them—animals were prey, sources of food, and raw materials, but also threats and mysteries, and certain animals often had an important place in the symbolic realm. With the process of domestication and the switch to animal husbandry as the main source of animal food, these relations changed considerably, and a certain dichotomy between “the domestic” and “the wild” may be noted in numerous past communities. When it comes to the Neolithic period in the Balkans, domestic animals had an important place in subsistence and economy, and it seems that cattle had a particularly prominent symbolic role. Wild species preserved some of their significance in both subsistence and symbolic realms, especially cervids (red deer, roe deer, and fallow deer). In this paper, the place of deer in the material culture of the Neolithic communities in the Balkans will be analysed: skeletal elements of deer were used for the production of diverse items, including non-utilitarian ones, or were part of ritual depositions, and deer representations are encountered in other materials, such as clay figurines. The symbolic meaning of deer cannot be reconstructed with certainty; however, it is probable that deer were tied with territoriality and the landscape.

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“…Arts 2024, 13, 64 2 of 20 She also argued that wild and domestic animals were indeed treated differently, and that a wild/domestic conceptual distinction existed (Russell 2022).…”

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Taking the Deer by the Antlers: Deer in Material Culture in the Balkan Neolithic

Vitezović

2024

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“…This raises questions about the possibility of deer hunting being associated with other practices or even becoming more performative as a consequence of its reduced relevance in subsistence. Russell [125] discussed the distinction between wild and domestic animals occurring in the Near Eastern Neolithic, impacting subsistence and ritual practices and resulting in different forms of personhood.…”

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Human–Deer Relations during Late Prehistory: The Zooarchaeological Data from Central and Southern Portugal in Perspective

Almeida,

Guinot,

Ribeiro

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Human–animal relations have been a fruitful research topic worldwide. The importance of deer in hunter–gatherer societies is undeniable, with cervids being commonly found in archaeological and past artistic records, with a notable amount of information recovered in the Iberian Peninsula. This relevance continues during Late Prehistory, but the attempt to discuss cervids under broader perspectives and based on different types of data is not as common. We intend to approach human–deer relations in Central and Southern Portuguese Late Prehistory by considering the zooarchaeological records, both deer abundance in faunal spectra and their presence in “meaningful” assemblages and structured depositions, as well as the use of deer and deer body parts in other socio–cultural and ideological practices. The synthesis of available data shows that human–deer relations changed through time and space, with different abundances related to hunting depending on chronology and geography. The use of deer or their body parts as a resource of symbolic nature also varied, being included in food-sharing events, offerings, structured depositions, and graphic representations. Changeability is part of the different relationships, ontologies, and cosmogonies that humans and deer developed in the Late Prehistoric relational world.

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“…Based on the well-known processes of the ecological succession, we propose the name for this gradual build-up of newly arriving members of the microbiota microbiome succession. Domestication, starting more than ten thousand years ago, created new kinds of relationships of humans with animals (Russell, 2022). The closeness to and frequent encounters with domesticated animals has triggered a gradual change in the human microbiome that was not merely quantitative but also qualitative.…”

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Domestication and microbiome succession may drive pathogen spillover

Apari

Földvári

2023

Front. Microbiol.

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Emerging infectious diseases have posed growing medical, social and economic threats to humanity. The biological background of pathogen spillover or host switch, however, still has to be clarified. Disease ecology finds pathogen spillovers frequently but struggles to explain at the molecular level. Contrarily, molecular biological traits of host-pathogen relationships with specific molecular binding mechanisms predict few spillovers. Here we aim to provide a synthetic explanation by arguing that domestication, horizontal gene transfer even between superkingdoms as well as gradual exchange of microbiome (microbiome succession) are essential in the whole scenario. We present a new perspective at the molecular level which can explain the observations of frequent pathogen spillover events at the ecological level. This proposed rationale is described in detail, along with supporting evidence from the peer-reviewed literature and suggestions for testing hypothesis validity. We also highlight the importance of systematic monitoring of virulence genes across taxonomical categories and in the whole biosphere as it helps prevent future epidemics and pandemics. We conclude that that the processes of domestication, horizontal gene transfer and microbial succession might be important mechanisms behind the many spillover events driven and accelerated by climate change, biodiversity loss and globalization.

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Wild Meets Domestic in the Near Eastern Neolithic

Cited by 5 publications

References 95 publications

Taking the Deer by the Antlers: Deer in Material Culture in the Balkan Neolithic

Taking the Deer by the Antlers: Deer in Material Culture in the Balkan Neolithic

Human–Deer Relations during Late Prehistory: The Zooarchaeological Data from Central and Southern Portugal in Perspective

Domestication and microbiome succession may drive pathogen spillover

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