Introduction - The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds or Prey: From Prehistory to the Present

Wallis, Robert J. (2023). Introduction - The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds or Prey: From Prehistory to the Present. In: Wallis, Robert J. ed. The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds or Prey: From Prehistory to the Present. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 1–10.

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Abstract

Of all avian groups in the world, birds of prey are singled out for particular attention in many human societies. They are depicted as powerful beings in visual art, they figure prominently in Indigenous cosmologies, their body part are active agents in religious rituals and their faunal remains are found intentionally deposited in the archaeological record. This volume explores the diverse, ongoing and changing dynamic between raptors and ourselves as evidenced in the intersecting fields of art, archaeology and anthropology, across a wide range of cultures, from earliest prehistory to the present. The contributors demonstrate that human engagements with birds of prey have been significant through deep time and across the world, and this is the first book to examine the topic by looking beyond the culture–nature dichotomy and human-centred accounts to explore multispecies, relational and other post-humanist thinking on human–raptor ontologies and epistemologies.

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