Dear Haskel,
besides an abundant amount of blood-dependent recipes in the traditional
European cuisines (esp. central and northern regions) you should not forget
the use of a milk-blood mixture in the diet of East African cattle herders
(e. g. Maasai and Samburu). Actually I can't remember an ethnographic source
but I'm sure you will find this rather easily. Another non-economic case of
blood using might be interesting as well: Pausanias (V,13,8) mentions the
existence of an altar at Miletos that has been built of the blood of
sacrificial victims, however, since its construction by Heracles until the
age of Pausanias it didn't reach a remarkable height.
yours
Gerhard
Prof.Dr. Gerhard Forstenpointner
Dept. of Anatomy
Unit on Archaeozoology and Comp. Morphology
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
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Does anybody know of any ethnographic or archaeological literature that
cites the use of blood is a primary or secondary product?
Best
Haskel
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University of Manitoba
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