Dear Katerina,
Here are a few references I can suggest on evidence for rodent or small
vertebrate consumption. There will be a lot of good leads in these papers. In
general I can say that investigating small vertebrate consumption will depend
on exploring multiple lines of evidence - taphonomic, ecological, contextual,
ethnographic parallels etc. A high frequency of burnt elements is important
but insufficient on it's own to infer consumption.
Kroeber, A.L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of
American Ethnology Bulletin 78. Washington, Smithsonian Institution.
Persic, M. 1998. Dormouse hunting as part of Slovene national identity.
Natura Croatica 7: 199-211.
Sandweiss, D.H. and Wing, E.S. 1997. Ritual rodents: the guinea pigs of
Chincha, Peru. Journal of Field Archaeology 24: 47-58.
J.A. Simonetti, L.E. Cornejo, Archaeological evidence of rodent consumption
in central Chile, Latin American Antiquity
2 (1991) 92–96.
Szuter, C.R. 1988. Small animal exploitation among desert horticulturalists
in North America. Anthropozoologia 2: 191-200.
Weissbrod, L., and Guy Bar-Oz. 2004. "Caprines and toads: Taphonomic
patterning of animal offering practices in a Late Bronze Age burial
assemblage," in Behaviour Behind Bones: The zooarchaeology of Ritual,
Religion, Status and Identity, vol. 1,, vol. 1, Proceedings of the 9th ICAZ
Conference, Durham 2002. Edited by W. V. N. Sharyn Jones O'Day, and Anton
Ervynck, pp. 20-24. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Weissbrod, L., Dayan, T., Kaufman, D. and Weinstein-Evron, M. 2005.
Micromammal taphonomy of el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel, Israel: distinguishing
natural from cultural depositional agents in the Late Natufian. Journal of
Archaeological Science 32:1-17.
Yohe, R.M. II, Newman, M. and Schneider, J. 1991. Immunological
identification of small- mammal Proteins on aboriginal milling equipment.
American Antiquity 56: 659-666.
These refs. might be useful as well:
Stahl, P.W. 1982. On small mammal remains in archaeological context.
American Antiquity 47: 822-829.
Morlan, R.E. 1994. Rodent bones in archaeological sites. Canadian Journal
of Archaeology 18: 135-142.
Brothwell, D.R. and Jones, R. 1978. The relevance of small mammal studies
to archaeology. In D.R. Brothwell, K.D. Thomas and J. Clutton-Brock (eds.),
Research Problems in Zooarchaology. London, Institute of Archaeology,
Occasional Publications 3: 47-57.
Lior Weissbrod
Ph.D Candidate
Anthropology Department
Washington University
Campus Box 1114
One Brookings Dr.
St.Louis, MO 63130
USA
Dear Everyone,
I am an MPhil from Cambridge and work on microfaunal skeletal material from
a Bronze Agesite in the Aegean Sea, Greece. My material comes from urban
contexts, mainly kitchens,hearths and vessels, and enough of it is burnt. I am
exploring the possibility of it beingpurposely burnt for cooking and I am
looking for any ethnographic parallel, ancient ormodern, on rodent
consumption/cooking. Any ideas?
Katerina Papayiannis
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