Roman Animals in ritual and funerary contexts: Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the Zooarchaeology of the Roman Period Working Group, Basel, 1st-4th February, 2018

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Roman Animals in ritual and funerary contexts: Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the Zooarchaeology of the Roman Period Working Group, Basel, 1st-4th February, 2018

Herausgeber/innen

Sabine Deschler-Erb (Hrsg)

Umberto Albarella (Hrsg)

Silvia Valenzuela Lamas (Hrsg)

Gabriele Rasbach (Hrsg)

Über dieses Buch

This volume includes a number of papers that were originally presented at the conference Roman Animals in Ritual and Funerary Contexts, which was held in Basel (Switzerland) from 1st–4th February 2018. The conference represented the second meeting of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) Working Group on the Zooarchaeology of the Roman Period. The articles present ritually deposited animal remains across a wide geographical range and incorporate both archaeological and zoological findings. The integration of these two strands of evidence is also one of the central concerns of the ICAZ Working Group, as in the past they have often been dealt with separately. However, it is precisely this interdisciplinary cooperation that opens up new perspectives on ritual practices in a wide variety of contexts. In this volume we see the enhancement of our understanding of ritual treatment of animals in central sanctuaries, in rural areas, at natural sites, and as part of building construction processes. The case studies presented in this volume demonstrate how animal remains such as bones and eggshells provide information beyond diet, economy, and differences in social hierarchy. Their interdisciplinary investigation additionally enables insights into practices governed by cultural, religious, and ideological conditions. The aim of the Zooarchaeology of the Roman Period Working Group (https://alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/workroman) is to represent a network of exchange and collaboration across borders and to enable the understanding of the interconnections between the research questions associated with animal remains from this important historical period.

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Preface

Sabine Deschler-Erb, Umberto Albarella, Silvia Valenzuela Lamas, Gabriele Rasbach

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/a6bc9cpojz

Vorwort

Diversity in unity: Animals in Roman ritual and funeral contexts

Sabine Deschler-Erb

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/8abhu6609b

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Deux dépôts exceptionnels à Briga (« Bois l’Abbé » Eu, France): Le sacrifice de bovins au IIIe siècle de notre ère

Alice Bourgois

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/rwda7nbbc6

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Faunal remains from a 4th–5th century church complex at ‘Ain el-Gedida, Upper Egypt

Douglas V. Campana, Pam J. Crabtree

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/a6ay96g0cd

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Evidence of ritual practices from the animal remains found in the Juno Sanctuary at Tas-Silġ, Malta

Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/bqnar1cp6c

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Bird and other animal sacrifice in the Ploutonion of Hierapolis, Phrygia (Turkey) : some results from two votive deposits

Claudia Minniti, Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/0sa6ccbchm

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A herd of sheep led to the slaughter – Evidence of hecatombs at Losodica/ Munningen (Bavaria)

Sabine Deschler-Erb, Andreas Schaflitzl

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/zc8bd66aa0

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Animals in funerary ritual in the Roman Netherlands

Maaike Groot

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/1vadd09ax6

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Animals in ritual and domestic context
A comparative study between the faunal assemblages from residential areas and two sanctuaries at the vicus of Kempraten (Rapperswil-Jona, CH)

Simone Häberle, Sabine Deschler-Erb, Heide Hüster Plogmann, Barbara Stopp, Sarah Lo Russo, Pirmin Koch, Regula Ackermann

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/b9zk7y6rf0

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Sabazios-Kult in Sorviodurum Tierknochen aus einer Kultgrube in Straubing (Bayern/Deutschland)

Constanze Höpken, Hubert Berke

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/a6xeka02rb

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Tierknochen aus dem Heiligtum der Größeren Götter Domnus und Domna in Sarmizegetusa (Rumänien)

Constanze Höpken, Manuel Fiedler

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/u7ccxlzkma

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Choice beef for the worshippers – the cattle record from the sanctuary of Jupiter Heliopolitanus at Carnuntum (Austria)

Günther Karl Kunst, Erika Gál, Verena Gassner

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/9a0d8s1bay

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Animals in funeral practices in Belgic Gaul between the end of the 1st century BC and the beginning of the 5th century AD: From gallic practices to Gallo-Roman practices

Sébastien Lepetz

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/aahb917dsd

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Animals in funerary practices during the early and late Roman periods in southern Belgium

Fabienne Pigière

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/bod6a9v1qd

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Cremated animal bone from two ritual/ceremonial sites in Britannia

Clare Rainsford, Anthony C. King, Susan Jones, Rose Hooker, Gilbert Burleigh

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/6qd6ebz0c7

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Animals to the slaughter. Meat-sharing and sacrifice in Geometric and Archaic Greece

Veronika Sossau

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/49tceds7pg

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In the belly of the earth: bones and the closing of sacred space in central Italy

Angela Trentacoste

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/o097c6uckf

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Sacrificing dogs in the late Roman World? A case study of a multiple dog burial from Viminacium amphitheatre

Sonja Vuković, Mladen Jovičić, Dimitrije Marković, Ivan Bogdanović

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/ad6xl0ecvj

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