Article ID: CBB001422504

Caravans, Camel Wrestling and Cowrie Shells: Towards a Social Zooarchaeology of Camel Hybridization in Anatolia and Adjacent Regions (2014)

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Çakirlar, Canan (Author)
Berthon, Rémi (Author)


Anthropozoologica
Volume: 49, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 237-252


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Article in a special issue: “Ancient Camelids in the Old World - Between Arabia and Europe”
Language: English

Hybrid camels, intentional crosses between dromedaries and bactrian camels, are prized for their robustness and endurance. They were the prime vehicles of short and long distance caravan trade in a large area between Greece and Mongolia until the whole-scale introduction of motorized transport. This paper proposes a model for the zooarchaeological study of camel hybridization as a culture-historical phenomenon based on ethnographic and ethnohistoric observations of camel wrestling. Camel wrestling spectacles involve large audiences who gather in large arenas to watch first generation male hybrid camels wrestle during the mating season. While Anatolia was chosen as a case region for testing the model, it can be applied to all regions where hybrids are expected to occur in the archaeological record.

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Authors & Contributors
Barea, Joaquin Pascal
Panichi, Silvia
Kardulias, P. Nick
Porter, Anne
Hacar, Abdullah
Kaptan, Ergun
Concepts
Animals
Domestication
Archaeology
Hybridization
Trade
Land settlement
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Prehistory
17th century
Neolithic period
Iron age
Places
Middle and Near East
Anatolia (Turkey)
Ottoman Empire
Europe
Rome (Italy)
South Asia
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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