Susan D. deFrance

Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities. The authors provide a global range of case studies from both New and Old World archaeology-a royal Aztec dog burial, the monumental horse tombs of Central Asia, and the ceremonial macaw cages of ancient...