Professor Levent Atici (Undergraduate Research, Anthropology) is the lead editor of a new book titled, , published through the University Press of Colorado. Atici also has co-authored a chapter in the book.
Through creative combinations of ethnohistoric evidence, iconography, and contextual analysis of faunal remains, this work offers new insight into the mechanisms involved in food provisioning for complex societies. Contributors combine zooarchaeological and historical data from global case studies to analyze patterns in centralization and bureaucratic control, asymmetrical access and inequalities, and production-distribution-consumption dynamics of urban food provisioning and animal management.
Food Provisioning in Complex Societies provides an optimistic roadmap and heuristic tools to explore the diverse, resilient, and contingent processes involved in food provisioning. The book represents a novel and productive way forward for understanding the unique, yet predictably structured, provisioning systems that emerged in the context of complex societies in all parts of the world. It will be of interest to zooarchaeologists and archaeologists alike.
Food Provisioning in Complex Societies should become an important resource for anyone interested in the role of animal economies in the rise and functions of complex societies and states, especially if they want to go beyond architecture and material objects. This is an outstanding compilation of case studies with a different perspective.”
—Elizabeth J. Reitz, professor emerita of the Zooarchaeology Laboratory at the Georgia Museum of Natural History
