Dear Umberto,
in Italy from Roman to Medieval time we have:
- Calvatone in Lombardia (I century AD) (Wilkens B., 1990. Calvatone (CR)
Località Costa di S. Andrea. I resti faunistici, in Notiziario della
Soprintendenza Archeologica della Lombardia, Milano, p. 86; Wilkens B.,
1997. La faune du site romain de Calvatone, Cremona (Italie),
Anthropozoologica, 25-26, pp. 611-616);
- Aquileia (I-II century AD) (Riedel A., 1994b. Roman bones from the area
near the forum of Aquileia, in M. Verzar-Bass (ed.) Scavi ad Aquileia. L
'area ad est del foro. Rapporto degli scavi 1989-91, pp. 583-591).
- (as you know) S. Giacomo degli Schiavoni (V century AD) (Albarella U.,
Ceglia V., Roberts P., 1993. S. Giacomo degli Schiavoni (Molise): an early
fifth century AD deposit of pottery and animal bones from central adriatic
Italy, Papers of the British School at Rome, LXI, pp.157-230);
- Verona (VI-VII century AD) (Riedel A., 1994. The animal remains of
medieval Verona: an archaeozoological and palaeoeconomical study, Memorie
del Museo Civico di storia Naturale di Verona, Sez. Scienze dell'Uomo, 3.)
- Rome "Crypta Balbi" (VIII cent. AD) (J. De Grossi Mazzorin, C. Minniti,
2001: "L'allevamento e l'approvvigionamento alimentare di una comunità
urbana. L'utilizzazione degli animali a Roma tra il VII e il X secolo", in
M.S. Arena, P. Delogu, L. Paroli, M. Ricci, L. Saguì, L. Vendittelli (a cura
di), Roma dall'antichità al medioevo. Archeologia e Storia nel Museo
Nazionale Romano. Crypta balbi, pp. 69-78);
Other camelids in Europe:
Spain: Conimbriga, Complutum, Villa el Val, Cartago Nova, Granada and Guadix
(Riquelme J.A., 1994. El dromedario en Al-Andalus: Estado de la cuestión a
través de los últimos descubrimientos arqueológicos en la provincia de
Granada, Actas del IV Congreso de Arqueología Medieval Española, Alicante,
pp. 657-661; Riquelme J.A., Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck C., Morales Muñiz A.,
1997. Archäozoologische funde von dromedaren auf der Iberischen Halbinsel,
Anthropozoologia, 25-26, pp. 539-543; Riquelme J.A., Morales Muñiz A., 1997.
A Porcupine find from Roman Africa with a review of archaeological data from
Circummediterranean sites, Archaeofauna, 6, pp. 91-95.);
England: Greenwich Park (Applebaum S.,1987. Animal husbandry . In J. Wacher
(ed.), The Roman World, II, London and New York, pp. 504-526.);
Franch: Mercin et Vaux (Vadet A., 1981. Mercin et Vaux (Aisne). L'étude des
ossements animaux. Cahiers archéologiques de Picardie, 8, pp. 115-146) and
Marsiglia (Jourdan L., 1976. La faune du site gallo-romain et paleo-chretien
de la Bourse (Marseille), CNRS, Paris, p. 338);
Germany: Vemania (Pieheler W. , 1976. Die Knochenfunde aus dem spätrömischen
Kastell Vemania, Dissertation, Universität München, p. 140.), Abodiacum
(Boessneck J., 1964. Die Tierknochen aus den Grabungen 1954-57 auf dem
Lorenzberg bei Epfach. In J. Werner (ed.), Studien zu Abodiacum-Epfach,
München, pp. 213-261.) e Breisach (Schmidt-Pauly I., 1980. Römerzeitliche
und mittelalterliche Tierknochenfunde aus Breisach im Breisgau,
Dissertation, Universität München, p. 188.);
Switzerland: Vindonissa (Keller C., 1910. Ein Kamelknochen aus Vindonissa,
Jahresberichte der Schweizer Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte, 2, pp. 111-112;
Hescheler K., Kuhn E., 1949. Die Tierwelt der prähistorischen Siedlungen der
Schweitz. In O. Tschumi, Urgeschichte der Schweiz, I, pp. 121-368),
Austria: Wien (Berger W., Thenius E., 1951. Über römerzeitliche Kamelfunde
im Stadtgebiet von Wien, in A. Neumann, Ausgrabungen und Funde im Wiener
Stadtgebiet 1948-1949, Veröff. Hist. Mus. Wien, pp. 20-23) and Mauerbach
(Riedel A., 1999. Kamelfunde der frühen römischen Kaiserzeit aus Mauerbach
(Niederösterreich, Bezirk Wien-Umgebung), Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 100A,
pp. 81-92.):
Ungary: Tác-Fövenypuszta and Diósgyör (Bökönyi S., 1974. History of
Domestic Mammals in Central and Eastern Europe, Budapest.), Intercisa
(Bökönyi S., 1989. Camel sacrifice in Roman Intercisa. Acta Archaeologica
Scientiarum Hungarica, 41, pp. 399-404), Buda (Bökönyi S., 1969.
Representations of camels in a Hungarian Medieval chronicle, Acta Agronomica
Academiaie Scientiarum Hungaricae, 18, pp. 247-251.), and Szekszárd-Palánk
(Bartosiewicz L., 1995. Camel remains from Hungary. In H. Buitenhuis, H.-P.
Uerpmann (eds.) Archaeozoology of the Near East, II, Proceedings of the
second international symposium on the archaeozoology of southwestern Asia
and adjacent areas, Leiden, pp. 119-125.).
Bye
Jacopo
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Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin
University of Lecce
via D. Birago, 64
73100 Lecce (I)
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Subject: [ZOOARCH] medieval camels?
> Has anyone got any information about archaeological remains of medieval
> camels in Europe? I am already aware of the Iberian and Hungarian camels
> described by Morales et al and Bartosiewicz in Antiquity articles, and
> of the early Byzantine camel from Nicopolis (Bulgaria) reported by Mark
> Beech.
> Any information gratefully received.
> Cheers,
> Umberto
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