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Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World: An Introduction

BENJAMIN S. ARBUCKLE AND SUE ANN MCCARTY

1. Animals and the State: The Role of Animals in State-Level Rituals in Mesoamerica

NAWA SUGIYAMA, GILBERTO PÉREZ, BERNARDO RODRÍGUEZ, FABIOLA TORRES, AND RAÚL VALADEZ

2. Entering the Underworld: Animal Offerings at the Foot of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan

LEONARDO LÓPEZ LUJÁN, XIMENA CHÁVEZ BALDERAS, BELEM ZÚÑIGA-ARELLANO, ALEJANDRA AGUIRRE MOLINA, AND NORMA VALENTÍN MALDONADO

3. The Luxury of Variety: Animals and Social Distinction at the Wari Site of Cerro Baúl, Southern Peru

SUSAN D. DEFRANCE

4. Shifting Patterns of Maya Social Complexity through Time: Preliminary Zooarchaeological Results from San Bartolo, Guatemala

ASHLEY E. SHARPE, WILLIAM A. SATURNO, AND KITTY F. EMERY

5. Animals as Symbols, Animals as Resources: The Elite Faunal Record in the Mississippian World

H. EDWIN JACKSON

6. The Parrots of Paquimé: A Look at the Role of Aviculture in Thirteenth-Century Northern Mexico

ABIGAIL HOLEMAN

7. Ritual, Cuisine, and Commensal Politics at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

ADAM S. WATSON

8. Pelts and Provisions: Faunal Remains and the Emergence of Social Inequality in Central Coastal California

CHARLOTTE K. SUNSERI

9. Animals and Social Change: A Case of the Middle Neolithic in the North European Plain

ARKADIUSZ MARCINIAK

10. Inequality and the Origins of Wool Production in Central Anatolia

BENJAMIN S. ARBUCKLE

11. Tracing Inequality from Assur to Kültepe-Kanesh: Merchants, Donkeys, and Clay Tablets

LEVENT ATICI

12. Animal, Human, God: Pathways of Shang Animality and Divinity

RODERICK CAMPBELL

13. Inequality on the Surface: Horses, Power, and Community in the Mongolian Bronze Age

JOSHUA WRIGHT

14. Pythons, Pigs, and Political Process in the Hueda Kingdom, Benin, West Africa AD 1650–1727

NEIL L. NORMAN

15. “Tails” of Romanization: Animals and Inequality in the Roman Mediterranean Context

MICHAEL MACKINNON

16. Wool Production, Wealth, and Trade in Middle Saxon England

PAM J. CRABTREE AND DOUGLAS V. CAMPANA

17. The Rhetoric of Meat Apportionment: Evidence for Exclusion, Inclusion, and Social Position in Medieval England

NAOMI SYKES

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