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

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.

Kapitel

• 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
  Kapitel 01
• 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
  Kapitel 02
• 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
  Kapitel 03
• 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
  Kapitel 04
• 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
  Kapitel 05
• 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
  Kapitel 06
• Animals in funerary ritual in the Roman Netherlands
  Maaike Groot
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/1vadd09ax6
  Kapitel 07
• 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
  Kapitel 08
• Sabazios-Kult in Sorviodurum Tierknochen aus einer Kultgrube in Straubing (Bayern/Deutschland)
  Constanze Höpken, Hubert Berke
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/a6xeka02rb
  Kapitel 09
• Tierknochen aus dem Heiligtum der Größeren Götter Domnus und Domna in Sarmizegetusa (Rumänien) 
  Constanze Höpken, Manuel Fiedler
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/u7ccxlzkma
  Kapitel 10
• 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
  Kapitel 11
• 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
  Kapitel 12
• Animals in funerary practices during the early and late Roman periods in southern Belgium
  Fabienne Pigière
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/bod6a9v1qd
  Kapitel 13
• 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
  Kapitel 14
• Animals to the slaughter. Meat-sharing and sacrifice in Geometric and Archaic Greece
  Veronika Sossau
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.34780/49tceds7pg
  Kapitel 15
• 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
  Kapitel 16
• 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
  Kapitel 17