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Chapter 2 was previously published in Spanish as “Un portal al inframundo: Ofrendas de animales sepultadas al pie del Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan,” by Leonardo López Luján, Ximena Chávez Balderas, Belem Zúñiga-Arellano, Alejandra Aguirre Molina, and Norma Valentín Maldonado, Estudios de cultura náhuatl 44 (2012): 9–40, http://www.scielo.org.mx /scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0071-16752012000200002&lng=es&tlng=es.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Animals and inequality in the ancient world / edited by Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Sue Ann McCarty.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60732-285-6 (cloth) — ISBN 978-1-60732-286-3 (ebook)
1. Animals and civilization—History—To 1500. 2. Animals—Social aspects—History—To 1500. 3. Human-animal relationships—History—To 1500. 4. Equality—History—To 1500. 5. Social archaeology. 6. Ethnoarchaeology. 7. Civilization, Ancient. I. Arbuckle, Benjamin S. II. McCarty, Sue Ann.
QL85.A535 2014
304.2'7—dc23
2013033573
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Cover illustrations: Nineteenth-century engraving of Temple of the Python, Ouidah Benin (Morienval 1898:41) (front left); Hampshire pig / vintage illustration from Meyers Konversations-Lexik on 1897, © Hein Nouwens / Shutterstock (front right and flap).