scholarly journals Een gehoorkapsel van een grijze walvis (Eschrichtius robustus) uit Wijster (Dr.)

Paleo-aktueel ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 43-49
Author(s):  
Wietske Prummel ◽  
Lisette de Vries ◽  
Frits Laarman ◽  
Youri van den Hurk
Keyword(s):  
Roman Period ◽  
Eschrichtius Robustus ◽  
Grey Whale ◽  
Animal Remains ◽  
Bone Fragments ◽  
Bulla Tympanica

A bulla tympanica of a grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) from Wijster (Dr.). The animal remains from the native Roman-period village at Wijster (province of Drenthe) were published by Dr Anneke T. Clason in 1967. Most of the remains are poorly preserved cattle and horse bone fragments. About half of them come from animal graves in farmyards or along village roads, which most probably are ritual deposits. At the beginning of 2018, Ernst Taayke found among the material from a grave of a horse and a cow, animal grave 12, an unidentified bone, find number 1266, that he did not recognize. The bone was found to be a bulla tympanica of a grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus), a very rare find. Animal grave 12 was a ritual deposit in the yard of farmhouse 77, dated 3rd/4th century AD. In this paper we discuss how we established the whale species, the possible origin of the whale bone and the meaning of the whale bone in this ritual deposit of a horse and a cow.

scholarly journals Grey whale ( Eschrichtius robustus ) in Norwegian waters 2000 years ago

2018 ◽  
Vol 495 ◽  
pp. 42-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Karin Hufthammer ◽  
Lena Arntsen ◽  
Andrew C. Kitchener ◽  
Michael Buckley
Keyword(s):  
Eschrichtius Robustus ◽  
Grey Whale

scholarly journals Study of animal remains dug out during the excavations of a Nuragic village in Sardinia

2015 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Portas ◽  
Stefania Bagella ◽  
Vittorio Farina ◽  
Marcella Carcupino ◽  
Antonio Cacchioli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cervus Elaphus ◽  
Bos Taurus ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Ovis Aries ◽  
Capra Hircus ◽  
Human Origin ◽  
Animal Remains ◽  
Bone Fragments ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Village

This paper presents the results of the zooarchaeological analysis of the faunal materials brought to light during the excavations set up in the Nuragic village surrounding the Santu Antine Nuraghe, near Torralba (Sassari), Sardinia. Precisely, the remains come from the structure of the village named by archaeologists hut 12. They are 779 specimens out of thousands animal remains from the whole archaeological site. The majority of the rests belong to sheep (<em>Ovis aries</em>) or goats (<em>Capra hircus</em>), cattle (<em>Bos taurus</em>), pigs (<em>Sus scrofa</em>) and deers (<em>Cervus elaphus</em>). Such material may provide suggestions about the productive use of animals in the village and point out the importance of the economical management of animals in the Nuragic society. Indeed, many remains show signs with human origin, which testify that the hut may have been a workplace where bone fragments were processed to obtain different kind of tools.

scholarly journals What Happened in That Pit? An Archaeozoological and GIS Approach to Study an Accumulation of Animal Carcasses at the Roman Villa of Vilauba (Catalonia)

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2214
Author(s):  
Lídia Colominas ◽  
Pere Castanyer ◽  
Joan Frigola ◽  
Joaquim Tremoleda
Keyword(s):  
Meat Consumption ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Gis Analysis ◽  
The Third ◽  
Roman Villa ◽  
Animal Remains

Some of the deposits of animal remains documented throughout prehistory and history are clearly something other than ordinary waste from meat consumption. For the Roman period and based on their characteristics, these assemblages have been classified as butchery deposits, raw material deposits, deposits created for the hygienic management and disposal of animal carcasses, or ritual deposits. However, some are difficult to classify, and the parameters that define each of them are not clear. Here, we present a unique deposit from the Roman villa of Vilauba (Catalonia). A total of 783 cattle remains were found in an irregular-shaped 187 m2 pit originally dug to extract the clay used in the construction of the villa walls around the third quarter of the 1st century AD. The application of a contextual taphonomy approach, with the integration of archaeozoological variables, stratigraphy and context, and a GIS analysis, allowed us to document the nature and formation of this singular assemblage. It consisted of the carcasses of 14 cattle individuals from which the meat had been removed to take advantage of it by preserving it. Therefore, the parameters that characterise the refuse of this activity are presented here as a baseline for other studies.

Perioada celei de-a doua epoci a fierului la Olteni – Cariera de nisip (jud. Covasna) în oglinda studiilor arheozoologice / Second Iron Age period at Olteni – Cariera de Nisip (Covasna County) in the light of archaeozoological studies

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelemen Imola
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Domestic Species ◽  
Animal Remains ◽  
Bone Fragments

A settlement and a necropolis from the 4th-3rd centuries BC, with typical North-Thracian materials, were discovered at Olteni – Cariera de Nisip/The Sand Quarry in northern Covasna county. The few animal remains analysed in the present study were found in 3 pits of this settlement. The faunal material is not necessary very representative but completes the picture of the already published archaeological and anthropological reports concerning the assemble of discoveries at Olteni which depict a local North-Thracian community in all its life aspects, funerary and domestic. There are only 12 bone fragments from which only 8 could be determined in species. These come from 3 different domestic species (cattle, sheep/goat, pig). Four bones showed burn marks, while a whole metatarsus offered the possibility to identify a very short cow, with the wither’s height of only 97 cm.

Third Report on the Excavations at Stonehenge

1923 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Hawley
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
The West ◽  
Appreciable Difference ◽  
The Third ◽  
Animal Bone ◽  
Bone Fragments

My last report presented a year ago concluded with an account of the third excavation of the ditch outside the circular earthwork. A fourth excavation in continuation of the third was begun immediately afterwards and carried 26 ft. to the west. It was made 2 ft. wider, as the ditch here appeared to have been wider and deeper, but except for this there was no appreciable difference from former sections. The upper soil had been much disturbed by rabbits or persons digging them out, the burrows being occasionally found to be 4 ft. deep. The upper layer of humus, and the rubble layer beneath it, contained chips of the building of Stonehenge to the number of 570, but none was found lower than the junction with the silt. With the chips were four small worn pieces of Bronze Age pottery, 10 of the Roman Period, a small quartzite maul, about 60 animal bone fragments, and the greater part of a human ulna bone.

scholarly journals Technochemical characteristic of organs and tissues of grey whale Eschrichtius robustus

2017 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 212-221
Author(s):  
N.B. Ayushin ◽  
◽  
E.P. Karaulova ◽  
L.T. Kovekovdova ◽  
K.G. Pavel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eschrichtius Robustus ◽  
Grey Whale

Whale Poaching Detection Based on Microscopic Characteristics of Bottlenose Dolphins’ (Tursiops truncatus) Bone Fragments

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 519-528
Author(s):  
Manuela Zadravec ◽  
Zvonimir Kozarić ◽  
Snježana Kužir ◽  
Mario Mitak ◽  
Tomislav Gomerčić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tursiops Truncatus ◽  
Bottlenose Dolphins ◽  
Bone Fragments
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