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Working at relationships: another look at animal domestication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

T. P. O'Connor
T. P. O'Connor*
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Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, England. E-mail: t.p.oconnor@bradford.ac.uk
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‘Animals were wild, and then some of them were tamed and so became domestic.’ The archaeological definition of ‘domestic’ is a fundamental, alongside the means by which the domestic is to be recognized in the archaeological record. Setting that relationship with human beings which we call ‘domestication’ alongside other relations between species clarifies the issues.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 271 , March 1997 , pp. 149 - 156
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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