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Living with cattle in the Eneolithic of Eastern Croatia

Disarticulated cattle remains, cattle burials and figural representations of bovine features (such as figurines, bucrania or vessels decorated with bovine heads or horns) have been registered on a number of Eneolithic sites in Eastern Croatia (e.g. Vučedol, Aljmaš- Podunavlje, Osijek- Retfala and others). Though the importance of cattle beyond their strictly economical value for Eneolithic human communities has been acknowledged, there is a need for new narratives about the prehistory of human-animal relations in the region with a focus on animal agency and inter-species socialities. The paper will reflect on settlements as contextual arenas of human-animal interactions and explore how cattle and humans might have affected each other. The contribution will examine human-cattle interactions, embodied shared experiences and affective encounters (such as joint working activities, everyday shared rhythms, care, the practice of burying the animals) negotiated and acknowledged through different forms of material culture (e.g. figural representations, architecture, burials patterns etc.).

Eneolithic ; Eastern Croatia ; Cattle ; Interspecies socialities

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