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.
Assistant Professor in the Durham University Department of Archaeology
Dr Price joined the department in 2023. He is a zooarchaeologist interested in a range of human-animal relations in the past, including domestication, the development of taboos, animal management strategies, the value of livestock and the ways in which livestock wealth supported the development of complex societies. He approaches these broad topics using traditional zooarchaeological techniques, geometric morphometrics, and stable isotopic analysis.
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