Dear Jacqui,
Burnt and unburnt human and animal bones were recovered from Chamber C
at the Costwold-Severn long barrow at Nympsfield, Gloucestershire. The
original report notes that the pig bones were burnt to the same level as
the human bone, although it is suggested that they are unlikely to have
been burnt in the chamber itself (Clifford 1938, 198-9). Unfortunately,
I was unable to locate these remains in the museum archives following a
recent reanalysis of the faunal remains from this site, so it is not
possible to confirm species identification unfortunately.
Clifford, E. M. 1938. The excavation of Nympsfield long barrow,
Gloucestershire. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 4: 188-213.
Best Wishes
Richard
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Subject: [ZOOARCH] Neolithic Charred Pork
Dear all,
I am looking for comparible material for a Neolithic deposit. This is
a set of Neolithic post
holes associated with a house that contain mostly calcined (cremated?)
pig bone - does anyone know of any comparable deposits. There are
teeth, skull fragments, toes and some limbbones.
I know that 16% of Bronze Age cremation burials have been found to
contain cremated animal remains, most commonly parts of sheep and pig
(McKinley 1997b), but does anyone have an information on Neolithic
practises or other earlier prehistoric animal cremations?
Nadolig Llawen/Happy Christmas.
Jacqui
Jacqui Mulville,
Senior Lecturer in Bioarchaeology,
Examinations Officer
School of History and Archaeology
Cardiff University
Humanities Building
Colum Drive
Cardiff
CF10 3EU
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/people/archaeology/jm1/
Tel: + 44 (0) 29 2087 4247
Fax: + 44 (0) 29 2087 4929
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