4 May 2023 - 4 May 2023
1:00PM - 2:00PM
D210 and online via Zoom
Free to all attendees
Dr Max Price will be presenting his research on the roles of livestock in the political economies of early states
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.