‘Sheep are your mother’: Rhyta and the interspecies politics in the Neolithic of the eastern Adriatic

This paper explores the relations between humans and animals through material culture, or more specifically, four-footed vessels also called rhyta (sing. rhyton). I want to suggest that rhyta are not merely artistic representations of something or some kind of cult paraphernalia, but that they embod...

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Main Author:	Dimitrij Mlekuž
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2007-12-01
Series:	Documenta Praehistorica
Subjects:	rhyton animals archaeology art cult Neolithic
Online Access:	https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/2095

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title	‘Sheep are your mother’: Rhyta and the interspecies politics in the Neolithic of the eastern Adriatic
title_short	‘Sheep are your mother’: Rhyta and the interspecies politics in the Neolithic of the eastern Adriatic
title_full	‘Sheep are your mother’: Rhyta and the interspecies politics in the Neolithic of the eastern Adriatic
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description	This paper explores the relations between humans and animals through material culture, or more specifically, four-footed vessels also called rhyta (sing. rhyton). I want to suggest that rhyta are not merely artistic representations of something or some kind of cult paraphernalia, but that they embody effective social agency. I place them in the context of human-animal or interspecies politics in the Neolithic of the eastern Adriatic.
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‘Sheep are your mother’: Rhyta and the interspecies politics in the Neolithic of the eastern Adriatic

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