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Food for Thought: The Potential and Problems of Faunal Evidence for Interpreting Late Antique Society

Food for Thought: The Potential and Problems of Faunal Evidence for Interpreting Late Antique... AbstractThis article considers the use of animal bones as an aid to understanding social dynamics in Late Antiquity. Faunal evidence has been deployed to great effect in many aspects of archaeology but, I argue, remains under-exploited in Classical and Early Medieval contexts. Making the most of this material will require the development of new interpretative frameworks and an awareness of various methodological barriers. Nonetheless, patterning of data from Early Roman contexts provides a ready source of models to test and develop for later centuries. This process will be especially useful when groups of settlements can be compared (here, major towns in North Africa), and when faunal patterning can be related to contemporary developments in the landscapes where the breeding, husbandry and culling of livestock took place. Here I use the area around Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire as a case study. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Late Antique Archaeology Brill

Food for Thought: The Potential and Problems of Faunal Evidence for Interpreting Late Antique Society

Roskams, Steve
Late Antique Archaeology , Volume 9 (1): 40 – Jan 1, 2012
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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Material Culture Studies
ISSN
1570-6893
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2213-4522
DOI
10.1163/22134522-12340018
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Abstract

AbstractThis article considers the use of animal bones as an aid to understanding social dynamics in Late Antiquity. Faunal evidence has been deployed to great effect in many aspects of archaeology but, I argue, remains under-exploited in Classical and Early Medieval contexts. Making the most of this material will require the development of new interpretative frameworks and an awareness of various methodological barriers. Nonetheless, patterning of data from Early Roman contexts provides a ready source of models to test and develop for later centuries. This process will be especially useful when groups of settlements can be compared (here, major towns in North Africa), and when faunal patterning can be related to contemporary developments in the landscapes where the breeding, husbandry and culling of livestock took place. Here I use the area around Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire as a case study.

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Late Antique Archaeology – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2012

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