Food Ethics, Domestication and Togetherness - A Close-up Study of the Relation of Horse and Dog to Man in the Bronze Age Settlement of Apalle

Abstract

This paper deals with the attitude to the horse and the dog at a later Bronze Age site in central Sweden. Three different phenomena of social practise are linked together: the deposition of bones, slaughter marks on bones, and pictorial representation in rock-carvings and on artefacts. Two chronological phases at the settlement are compared in order to see if they display changes, regarding the three different phenomena, over time.