![]() It can in fact be regarded as a common feature of subsistence during this time. Comparing the case-study area of West Frisia, the Netherlands, with north-west European coastal communities in general, local variation appears to be a consistent feature of Bronze Age farming. Contrasting this expectation with the actual archaeological data reveals missing elements, findings for which include recognizing that wild resource exploitation was perhaps equally if not more vital to farming life than crop and animal husbandry. crop and animal husbandry, hunting and gathering) rather innovatively: instead of summarizing the known data for each subsistence strategy and drawing conclusions solely based on these observations, this study first determines what may have been present yet perhaps is no longer visible. Doing so, Wild West Frisia analyses the separate components comprising Bronze Age subsistence (i.e. This volume focuses on reconstructing the daily lives of Bronze Age farmers as well as the landscape for their subsistence practices. As highlighted throughout the introduction, however, archaeo-ornithological approaches are not only capable of shedding new light on old questions about the past, they also have the potential of addressing some pressing contemporary quandaries, including continuing debates on the Anthropocene. Each contributing paper of the special issue, which will be introduced in more detail below, foregrounds different aspects and emphasizes varying dimensions of the triangle, thus contributing in different ways to archaeo-ornithological research. The utility of this approach is demonstrated by exploring the example of anthropogenic space as a key context of human-bird figurations. We propose a new conceptual model – grounded in the analysis of ‘triangles of interaction’ – to elucidate the interactional dynamics which underpin varying human-animal relationships. ![]() ![]() This editorial introduces Archaeo-Ornithology as a distinct field of inquiry and discusses its multidisciplinary background and potential contribution to a more nuanced characterization of changing human-animal interfaces through time and space.
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