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    "description": "Ancient Egyptians always had an intense and complex relationship with animals in daily life as well as in religion. Despite the fact that research on this relationship has been a topic of study, gaps in our knowledge still remain. This volume presents well over 30 contributions that explore Human-Animal relationships from the Predynastic to the Roman period.<br />The essays cover topics such as animal husbandry, mummification, species-specific studies, the archaeology and economy of the animal cults, funerary practices, iconography and symbolism. The contribution of archaeometrical methods, such as DNA analyses, balms' analyses, AMS dating, radiography, and 3D imaging, are also represented as these play a significant role in furthering our understanding of the human-animal relationship in Egypt.<br />The range of subject matter and contributors are indicative of the importance of animals and the role that they played in ancient Egypt and Nubia, and emphasises the need for continued inter- and multidisciplinary studies on the subject. The research outlined in this volume has helped, for example, to better identify ways of sourcing the animals used in mummification, contributed to establishing the eras during which animal mummification became common, and highlighted new techniques for acquiring DNA.<br />The fresh insights and diversity of topics makes the volume of interest for professionals (Egyptologists, (archaeo-)zoologists and historians), as well as those who are interested in Egyptology and in the relationship between humans and animals. 'Creatures of Earth, Water and Sky' is the result of the first international conference ever dedicated to animals in ancient Egypt and Nubia (the International Symposium on Animals in Ancient Egypt, ISAAE 1, June 1-3 2016, held in Lyon).<br />Contents: Abstracts<br />Preface<br />St\u00e9phanie Porcier, Salima Ikram & St\u00e9phane Pasquali<br />L'exploitation de l'autruche dans l'\u00c9gypte ancienne : l'exemple des perles en coquille d'\u0153uf d'autruche<br />Halima Ali Toybou<br />Scanning Sobek: Mummy of the Crocodile God<br />Julie Anderson & Daniel Antoine<br />Donkey Burials at Tell El-Yahudia<br />Aiman Ashmawy Ali<br />\u00c0 propos des noms d'esp\u00e8ces appartenant au sous-ordre des sauria (l\u00e9zards) attest\u00e9s en \u00c9gypte ancienne et m\u00e9di\u00e9vale : un tour d'horizon zoologique et lexicographique<br />Sydney H. Aufr\u00e8re<br />Early Travellers and the Animal `Mummy Pits' of Egypt: Exploration and Exploitation of the Animal Catacombs in the Age of Early Travel<br />Tessa T. Baber<br />From Egyptology to Ornithology: The Cults of Sacred Falcons and The Mus\u00e9e des Confluences' Raptor Mummies<br />Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer<br />Interpreting the Faunal Remains from the Tombs at the Temple of Millions of Years of Amenhotep II in Western Thebes: Funerary Practices, Ritual Practices or, Perhaps, Something Else?<br />Fabio Bona, Anna Consonni, Tommaso Quirino & Angelo Sesana<br />Une analyse chimique de la composition de baumes de momies animales \u00e9gyptiennes conserv\u00e9es au mus\u00e9e des Confluences (Lyon, France)<br />Manon Bondetti, St\u00e9phanie Porcier, Matthieu M\u00e9nager & Cathy Vieillescazes<br />\u00c9conomie du culte des animaux sacr\u00e9s en \u00c9gypte hell\u00e9nistique et romaine<br />Silvia Bussi<br />B\u0153ufs d'\u00c9gypte, b\u0153ufs du Soudan : une morphologie diff\u00e9rente ?<br />Louis Chaix<br />L'\u00e9tude des momies animales du mus\u00e9e des Confluences \u00e0 Lyon. L'exemple des momies de poissons<br />Alain Charron<br />Des chiens et des bandelettes<br />Fran\u00e7oise Dunand, Roger Lichtenberg, C\u00e9cile Callou & Fleur Letellier-Willemin<br />Trapping Baqet's Rat<br />Linda Evans<br />De la valeur embl\u00e9matique des dromadaires en terre cuite d'\u00c9gypte<br />J\u00e9r\u00f4me Gonzalez<br />Formes et figures animales dans le mobilier \u00e9gyptien<br />H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Guichard<br />Shedding New Light on Old Corpses: Developments in the Field of Animal Mummy Studies<br />Salima Ikram<br />Mummies from the City of Canine Deities: An Analysis of Canid Osteofaunal Remains from the Tomb of the Dogs on Gebe...",
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