Human-Animal Relationships in Archaeology: Worldviews of Hunter-gatherers in Northern Europe (HARA)
Dr Maja Pasarić (Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow)
Dr Graeme Warren (Mentor)
Funding
This project has received funding from the [European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme][Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018] under grant agreement No 701636
Abstract
The project Human-Animal Relationships in Archaeology: Worldviews of Hunter-gatherers in Northern Europe (HARA) aims to provide important new perspectives on human interactions with animals in Northern Europe in the ethnographic present and the archaeological past. This will include an analysis of ethnographic materials from NE Russia and archaeological materials from France, Denmark and Latvia including Europe’s largest Stone Age burial ground (350 graves), Zvejnieki in Latvia. HARA will focus on how animal remains, especially artefacts manufactured on animal remains, and animal iconography reflect and construct human-animal relations. With the aim to develop new perspectives on human-animal relationships among hunter-gatherers in Northern Europe the project will utilise innovative analogies and theoretical frameworks derived from ethnographic analysis and new experimental archaeological approaches to artefacts manufactured from animal remains. The case studies will allow an assessment of changes in human-animal relationships during the introduction of domestic animals: a process which is widely considered to have been transformative of human society and human understandings of animals and has been a significant focus for research.
Reports and publications
Newsletters
Pasarić M., Warren G. 2016 Human-Animal Relationships in Archaeology: Worldviews of Hunter-gatherers in Northern Europe. Introductory Report. HARA Newsletter 1, UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin. (opens in a new window)http://researchrepository.ucd.ie/handle/10197/8420
Pasarić M., Warren G. 2017 Human-Animal Relationships in Archaeology: Worldviews of Hunter-gatherers in Northern Europe. Animal representations and artefacts made from animal remains. Working with the Siberian ethnographic collection from Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences. HARA Newsletter 2, UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin.
Posters
Pasarić M., Warren G. 2016 Introducing HARA: Human-Animal Relationships in Archaeology: Worldviews of Hunter-gatherers in Northern Europe, Annual Research Seminar, “Archaeology: The Discipline of Things….and People, Places, Animals and Times”, December 9 2016, UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin.
Further information
HARA project website - (opens in a new window)www.harahuntergatherers.wordpress.com
HARA project Facebook - (opens in a new window)https://www.facebook.com/Human-Animal-Relationships-in-Archaeology-HARA-101528057094613/