TY - JOUR AU - Armstrong Oma, Kristin AU - Goldhahn, Joakim PY - 2020/12/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Human-animal Relationships from a Long-Term Perspective JF - Current Swedish Archaeology JA - csa VL - 28 IS - 1 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.37718/CSA.2020.01 UR - https://publicera.kb.se/csa/article/view/25 SP - 11-22 AB - <p>Humans, like other animals, are inextricably bound to their local complex web-of-life and cannot exist outside of relationally interwoven ecosystems. Humans are, as such, rooted in a multispecies universe. Human and non-human animals in their variety of forms and abilities have been commensal, companions, prey, and hunters, and archaeology must take this fundamental fact – <em>the cohabiting of the world</em> – to heart. Human societies are, therefore, not so much human as web-of-species societies. Recently, anthropological theory has explored non-modern societies from the perspective of an anthropology of life which incorporates relationality of local humans and non-human animals (Kohn 2013), a pursuit that is significant for the diverse contributions in this special section of <em>Current Swedish Archaeology </em>(CSA): a themed section which deals with past multispecies intra-actions in a long-term perspective.</p> ER -