Livestock Production and Bronze Age Political Economies in the Levant

Livestock was central to the political economies of early states. However, in comparison with arable farming and the development of governments, the role of animal agriculture in building and financing these states has been relatively under-examined. Dr Price takes a deliberately animal-focused perspective, using zooarchaeology to examine the economic and political roles of livestock in the Bronze Age Levant and exploring how animal farming determined mobility and territorialisation in the region.