Dear Rene
A footnote to Alex's message. There is a collection of aurochs horn cores in a small museum at the spa town of Bourbonne-les-Bains in eastern France. They were recovered from spa contexts and although originally thought to be pre-3rd century AD, but have now been carbon dated to late 4th to 6th century AD:
Grant, A and Sauer, E. (in press for 2006) The aurochs, nature worship and exploitation in eastern Gaul. Antiquity.
Annie Grant
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>Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] mediaeval aurochs
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>Dear Rene,
>
>Have a look at:
>
>For Hungary:
>Bartosiewicz, L. (1999), 'Animal husbandry and medieval settlement in
>Hungary: a review', Beiträge zur Mittelalterärchaologie in Österreich
>15, pp. 139-155.
>Bökönyi, S (1974). History of Domestic Mammals in Central and Eastern
>Europe. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.
>
>For Romania:
>Bejenaru, L. (2003), Arheozoologia spat,iului românesc medieval, Ias,i.
>Also see Bejenaru and Tarcan's forthcoming paper 'Hunting in the
>Byzantine Period in the area between the Danube River and the
>Black Sea:
>Archaeozoological data', in A. G. Pluskowski (ed.) Breaking
>and Shaping
>Beastly Bodies: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle
>Ages, Oxford,
>Oxbow.
>
>For Latvia and Estonia an accessible paper with relevant references:
>Mugare-vic(s, E- (2002). Forest animals and hunting in medieval
>Livonia. In G. Helmig, B. Scholkmann and M. Untermann (eds.), Centre,
>Region, Periphery: Proceedings of the International Conference of
>Medieval and Later Archaeology, Basel, Switzerland, vol. 2. Basel:
>Archäologische Bodenforschung Basel-Stadt, pp. 177-181.
>
>I have a couple of refs for Poland which I'll try to get to
>you tomorrow.
>
>See also:
>
>Solski, L. (2001). Zoological gardens of central-eastern Europe and
>Russia, in Kisling, V. N. (ed.) Zoo and Aquarium History: Ancient
>Animal Collections to Zoological Gardens, London, CRC Press, 117-146.
>
>NB: there are a number of potential auroch horns from medieval
>contexts
>extant in private collections ranging from national museums through to
>cathedral treasuries. I'm not sure if anyone has collated a
>pan-European
>inventory as they have for elephant tusks, but I'm slowly
>working on it!
>
>All the best,
>
>Aleks Pluskowski
>
>
>Rene Kysely wrote:
>
>>Dear Zooarchers,
>>
>>I collected information about osteological finds of aurochs
>from Middle
>>Ages from the Czech Republic. I would like to compare it with
>situation in
>>other European countries.
>>Could anybody help me with searching publications/information
>>about time-spatial occurrence (e.g. maps with sites) and/or
>size of aurochs
>>in this period?
>>
>>Thank you,
>>
>>Rene
>>
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