Vessels of the Desert and Steppes. Camelids in Antiquity (Camelus dromedarius and Camelus bactrianus).
MOM editions| N° d'inventaire | 22940 |
| Format | 21 x 29.7 |
| Détails | 292 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Lyon, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782356680679 |
Archaeology(s) Collection 2 It was in the 1st millennium BC that the dromedary and, to a lesser extent, the camel began to impose their tall silhouettes on the roads of the Near East and Egypt. Gathering in two workshops, in Lyon and then in Nanterre, sixteen archaeologists and historians attempted to assess the extent of this camel revolution. From Xinjiang to the Libyan Desert, the increasingly intensive use of the large camelids of the ancient world has indeed disrupted the fields of caravan transport but also agriculture, redesigning trade routes, increasing the export capacities of oases, and opening up formerly isolated regions. Gradually becoming a major component of the economic systems of desert or semi-desert regions, camelids remain at the same time associated with nomadic populations possessing know-how without which the breeding and training of these large animals proves impossible. Written sources (Akkadian, biblical, demotic, Greek, etc.) but also archaeozoology, iconography, not forgetting ethnology and zootechnology, are called upon to address this camel revolution in its multiple aspects. This book presents a very large number of documents, including unpublished ones, and addresses a wide range of themes: the different uses of camelids, the link between these animals and nomadic and sedentary populations, their place in the imaginations of the peoples of Asia and Egypt, but also in the daily lives of the Greeks, Romans, Nabataeans, Arabs, inhabitants of the Byzantine Levant, populations of Central Asia; within environments as varied as Mesopotamia, Assyria, the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Egypt and Central Asia. Two articles on the recent fate of the animal and on current camel breeding practices in Mongolia complete this overview of an animal that is decidedly central to the history of the regions considered.
Archaeology(s) Collection 2 It was in the 1st millennium BC that the dromedary and, to a lesser extent, the camel began to impose their tall silhouettes on the roads of the Near East and Egypt. Gathering in two workshops, in Lyon and then in Nanterre, sixteen archaeologists and historians attempted to assess the extent of this camel revolution. From Xinjiang to the Libyan Desert, the increasingly intensive use of the large camelids of the ancient world has indeed disrupted the fields of caravan transport but also agriculture, redesigning trade routes, increasing the export capacities of oases, and opening up formerly isolated regions. Gradually becoming a major component of the economic systems of desert or semi-desert regions, camelids remain at the same time associated with nomadic populations possessing know-how without which the breeding and training of these large animals proves impossible. Written sources (Akkadian, biblical, demotic, Greek, etc.) but also archaeozoology, iconography, not forgetting ethnology and zootechnology, are called upon to address this camel revolution in its multiple aspects. This book presents a very large number of documents, including unpublished ones, and addresses a wide range of themes: the different uses of camelids, the link between these animals and nomadic and sedentary populations, their place in the imaginations of the peoples of Asia and Egypt, but also in the daily lives of the Greeks, Romans, Nabataeans, Arabs, inhabitants of the Byzantine Levant, populations of Central Asia; within environments as varied as Mesopotamia, Assyria, the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Egypt and Central Asia. Two articles on the recent fate of the animal and on current camel breeding practices in Mongolia complete this overview of an animal that is decidedly central to the history of the regions considered.