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Grimm, Oliver (Ed.): Beast and Human: Case Studies for Northern Europe from Prehistoric to Early Modern Times, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2025 (LEIZA Publications, Volume 8). https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1690

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12/08/2025

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Oliver Grimm (Ed.)

Beast and Human

Case Studies for Northern Europe from Prehistoric to Early Modern Times

LEIZA Publications

Human-Animal Studies are gaining more and more momentum in archaeo(zoo)logy for good reasons – it is time to have yet another look at animal-human relations that is less anthropocentric than it was before. With some alterations, the present publication goes back to a session at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) in Kiel (Germany) in September 2021. The twelve articles in the book have been arranged in a manner that they constitute a narrative which ranges, geographically, from the United Kingdom to Russia and, chronologically, from the late hunter-gatherer period to early modern times.  

Dr. Oliver Grimm from the Leibniz Centre for Archaeology (LEIZA, location Schleswig) works since many years in the field of Human-Animal Studies. He has, in cooperations with others, published extensive books on raptor and human (falconry) and bear and human which trancend time, region and academic branch. Raptors and bears are described as beings of their own, with a multilayered perception by humans.      

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Table of Contents
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Titelei
Table of Contents
5-6
Oliver Grimm
Preface
7-8
Oliver Grimm
Beast and Human – Introduction, Discussion and Synthesis
9-27
Luc August Adèle Janssens
Distinguishing between the Archaeological Remains (Teeth and Bones) of Dogs and Wolves
31-50
Tuija Kirkinen, Oliver Grimm
Bear Skins and Human Death – Tracing Soft Organic Materials in Iron Age and Medieval Burials in Fennoscandia
51-60
Emily Banfield
And Say the Animal Responded?
Tracing Non-human Animal Agency in the Neolithic of Great Britain
61-69
Giedrė Piličiauskienė, Povilas Blaževičius, Viktorija Micelicaitė, Raminta Skipitytė
Hunting Dogs and Hunting with Dogs in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the 13th to 17th Centuries AD
73-92
Aurelija Zagurskytė, Povilas Blaževičius, Gintautas Vėlius
Zooarchaeological and Historical Data on Wild Birds and Falconry from the 13th to 17th Centuries in Lithuania
93-112
Ekaterina Kashina, Vladislav Zhitenev
Hunters and Bears Throughout the Stone Age of Eastern Europe and the Urals According to Archaeological Data
115-131
Kirsty Squires, Hannah O’Regan, Oliver Grimm
Who Gets Buried with a Bear?
The Inclusion of Wild Animals in the Cremation Rite of Eastern England and Northern Germany (4th to 8th Centuries CE)
133-147
Konstantin Skvorcov, Jaroslaw A. Prassolow
First Bear Claw Finds in Weapon Graves of the 6th/First half of the 7th Century on the Kaliningrad Peninsula
149-158
Maksim Čarnâūski
The Snake and the Duck of the Belarusian Lakeland
161-171
Tõnno Jonuks
From Dragon to Hare – Animals for Pendants and Animals for Art in Late Iron Age Estonia (9th to 13th Centuries)
173-184
Valentina Mordvintseva
Animals and Animal Images among the Sarmatians
An Analysis of Elite Burials in the North Pontic Region in the Period from the 3rd Century BC to the mid-3rd Century AD
187-220
Yury Esin
Birds of Prey in the Art of Early Asian Herders and the Problem of the Origins of Falconry
221-242

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