Hi Simon
I can't remember anything published right now. But I
was thinking about heads/skulls appearing in shrines.
Examples on the cattle skulls from Catal Höyök, and
maybe also in Minoan contexts (comsidering all their
plastic art and painting); or thru the Bronze Age in
the near east and SE Europe. Also in Egypt there a lot
of selectiveness on the limbs of animals, they appear
in paintings in tombs where the deseased is offered
variuous animals and cuts of them in a offering
banket.
Regards Jesper S. Østergaard
Hessensgade 22
2300 Copenhagen S Denmark
--- Simon Davis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I am trying to put together a brief review of
> zoo-archaeological and modern ethnographic examples
> of selection of well defined/specific parts of the
> body of animals for sacrifice/ritual (NOT for craft
> or industrial purposes).
>
> The ones that I have so far include the right hind
> limbs of caprines at the Archaic period Temple of
> Apollo (Cyprus); right forelimbs of caprines at Iron
> Age Tell Qiri, Israel; a cattle skull assemblage at
> Bronze Age Irthlingborough in England; burnt
> Mycenean bones from the Palace of Nestor (Isaakidou
> et al.)and several examples of preference for cervid
> hind limbs at Castle sites in England (supposedly
> offered to the "Lords of the Castle").
>
> Does anyone know of a/some recently published
> examples of these kinds of occurrences?
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated !
>
> Thanks,
>
> simon davis
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>
> Instituto Portugues de Arqueologia
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>
>
>
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