Lidar Sapir-Hen and Dierdre Dixon Fulton wrote for ANE today about dogs in the Iron Age (end of 2nd millennium – first half of the 1st millennium BCE). Previous research has focused on their use in cultic activity, or viewed dogs as simply “unclean” or pariah animals. In their new joint study of the archaeological and textual evidence, they suggest that dogs functioned as herders, guards and occasionally hunters, and that dogs were actually an important part of Levantine communities.
For ANE today follow: https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2023/10/dogs-social-fabric For the original research paper in Oxford Journal of Archaeology (open access): https://doi.org/10.1111/ojoa.12268
The Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, is happy to invite you to the interdisciplinary conference: "Animals of the Past: Human-non-Human Animal Interactions and the Ancient Near East". Organizers: Romina Della Casa and Lidar Sapir-Hen.
Join us on June 21, via Zoom: For the zoom link please write an email to romina@mail.tau.ac.il or lidarsap@tauex.tau.ac.il
