| Autor: |
Almeida NJ; CHAIA-Centre for Art History and Artistic Research, IN2PAST-Associated Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory, Department of History, Colégio do Espírito Santo, University of Évora, 7000-645 Évora, Portugal.; Uniarq-Centre for Archaeology, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, 1649-004 Lisbon, Portugal., Guinot C; Department of History, Colégio do Espírito Santo, University of Évora, 7000-645 Évora, Portugal., Ribeiro I; CHAIA-Centre for Art History and Artistic Research, IN2PAST-Associated Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory, Department of History, Colégio do Espírito Santo, University of Évora, 7000-645 Évora, Portugal., Barreira J; Museu Rainha Dona Leonor, 7800-131 Beja, Portugal.; O Legado da Terra, Cooperativa de Responsabilidade Limitada, 7800-651 Nossa Senhora das Neves, Portugal.; CEAACP-Centro de Estudos de Arqueologia, Artes e Ciências do Património, 3000-607 Coimbra, Portugal., Basílio AC; ICArEHB-Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour, University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal. |
| Abstrakt: |
Human-animal relations have been a fruitful research topic worldwide. The importance of deer in hunter-gatherer societies is undeniable, with cervids being commonly found in archaeological and past artistic records, with a notable amount of information recovered in the Iberian Peninsula. This relevance continues during Late Prehistory, but the attempt to discuss cervids under broader perspectives and based on different types of data is not as common. We intend to approach human-deer relations in Central and Southern Portuguese Late Prehistory by considering the zooarchaeological records, both deer abundance in faunal spectra and their presence in "meaningful" assemblages and structured depositions, as well as the use of deer and deer body parts in other socio-cultural and ideological practices. The synthesis of available data shows that human-deer relations changed through time and space, with different abundances related to hunting depending on chronology and geography. The use of deer or their body parts as a resource of symbolic nature also varied, being included in food-sharing events, offerings, structured depositions, and graphic representations. Changeability is part of the different relationships, ontologies, and cosmogonies that humans and deer developed in the Late Prehistoric relational world. |
