TY  - CHAP
TI  - Etwas tierisch: the chaîne opératoire and animal studies
AU  - Bartosiewicz, László
T2  - From tea leaves to leaf-shaped tools. Studies in honour of Zsolt Mester on his sixtieth birthday
A2  - Király, Attila
T3  - Litikum Könyvtár (Litikum books)
AB  - The concept of chaîne opératoire has provided a framework for interpreting lithic technologies. How is it being used in archaeozoology? Consuming animals is at the end of a series of tasks that follow a sequence: some steps in carcass processing cannot precede others. This lies at the core of the chaîne opératoire approach. Discrepancies in epistemological and linguistic communication, however, have impeded the adaptation of the chaîne opératoire approach to animal studies, although technological analysis, experimentation, and social anthropology provide excellent tools for the interpretation of animal remains. This paper is a review of similarities and differences between reconstructing production sequences for stone artefacts and animals. It is a summary of the potentials and limitations of using the chaîne opératoire concept on various levels in animal studies.
CY  - Budapest
DA  - 2023///
PY  - 2023
SP  - 49
EP  - 63
LA  - English
PB  - Lithic Research Roundtable & Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University
SV  - 2
UR  - https://doi.org/10.23898/litikumsi02a02
KW  - Taphonomy
KW  - Archaeozoology
KW  - Butchery
KW  - Bone manufacturing
KW  - Animal studies
ER  -