Tracking the History of East-West Contact through Livestock Culture in Central Asia
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| Representative |
Manabu Uetsuki |
| Research period |
2023-24 |
| Overview |
By clarifying the characteristics and development of animal husbandry in Central Asian pastoral societies, which occupied an important position in the contact and exchange between the two major animal domestication centers of Eurasia, Southwest Asia and East Asia, this project will contribute to the clarification of the characteristics of East Asian livestock culture from China to the Japanese archipelago and its establishment and transformation process. The project also aims to investigate the differences in the use of livestock between pastoralists and agriculturalists in Central Asia, a region in contact with agriculture and pastoralism, and how these differences can be identified from a zooarchaeological perspective. By applying novel analytical methods, the project also aims to reconstruct in the entire life cycle of livestock and to build a model for understanding livestock use in Central Asia. |
| Keyword |
Central Asia, zooarchaeology, animal husbandry, isotope analysis |
| Grant |
JSPS 23H03924 |
| Grant URL |
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-23K21994/ |
