1st Edition
Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia Insights from Modern Development Studies
By Jill Goulder
Copyright 2020
200 Pages
38 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
38 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
38 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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 4th-3rd millennium BC Mesopotamia but applicable to other periods and regions. This book is driven by a novel interdisciplinary process of analogy with modern use of working donkeys and cattle in... Read more
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
Biography
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.
