Metin OMER
Academic Year:
2023/ 2024
Field of Study:
Literature/ Translation
Research Program:
Tandem – Author with Translator – Translator with Author
Affiliation:
Black Sea Institute, Ovidius University, Constanța
Position:
Researcher
Country:
Romania
ORCID: 0000-0003-3898-6920
Cătălin Pavel’s Animalele care ne fac oameni. Blană, cozi și pene în arheologie (Humanitas, 2021) is a non-fiction volume of archaeology/history that bridges the gap between academia and the general public. Born out of a science communication project, it retains a substantial bibliography, but no footnotes. In it, Pavel investigated the way humans interacted with animals – chapters on dogs, cats, horses, but also whales, hedgehogs, birds, and bears – throughout prehistory and the Classical Antiquity. Pavel set off to study, with archaeological methods, the interaction between human persons and non-human persons, and to prove that animals have been a major catalyst of our cognitive and emotional development.