Aiding and A-vetting: The Archaeology of Animal Care - Ep71

This week Anna and Amber told you we’re going to the park, but really it’s a trip to the v-e-t in an episode all about evidence for animal care and veterinary medicine in the archaeological record. Learn how archaeologists assess animal welfare from bone analysis, ancient Egyptian animal medicine, a snapshot of life on a medieval French farm, and more, including 2nd millennium BCE pro tips on how to get your horse absolutely jacked.

Links

• Prehistoric Puppy May Be Earliest Evidence of Pet-Human Bonding (National Geographic)

• Excavating the history of ancient veterinary practices (Veterinary Record)

• The Kikkuli Text. Hittite Training Instructions for Chariot Horses in the Second Half of the 2nd Millennium B.C. and Their Interdisciplinary Context (Peter Raulwing, via Academia.edu)

• Kikkuli (International Museum of the Horse)

• A Quick History of Veterinary History (Canidae)

• Care or Neglect?: Evidence of Animal Disease in Archaeology

• One and the same? An investigation into the connection between veterinary and medical practice in ancient Egypt (in Mummies, magic and medicine in ancient Egypt)

• Lahun Veterinary Papyrus

• Early Egyptians Revered Lowly Donkeys (New York Times)

Lahun Veterinary Papyrus

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Fun-A with Fauna - Ep 59

Anna and Amber talk about animal bones and what you can learn from them about domestication! Learn about how selective breeding affects animals' bodies (and also learn that Amber is very afraid of pigs). We also take a detour into Spookytown with some bizarre Iron age animal burials, and top it off with a lovely story about a kitten.

Anna and Amber talk about animal bones and what you can learn from them about domestication! Learn about how selective breeding affects animals' bodies (and also learn that Amber is very afraid of pigs). We also take a detour into Spookytown with some bizarre Iron age animal burials, and top it off with a lovely story about a kitten.

Links

• Top Signs of Animal Domestication (ThoughtCo)

• Early Date for Horse Domestication in Kazakhstan (Current World Archaeology)

• The boneyard of the bizarre that rewrites our Celtic past to include hybrid-animal monster myths (The Independent)

• Ritual and Burial: The Strange and Elaborate Ways Humans Prepared Animals for the Afterlife (Ancient Origins)

• Ancient bobcat buried like a human being (Science)

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