True, of course, but in the context of the English Tudor court probably
more likely to have been flashed around as a curio - the menagerie was
becoming something of a fashion at the time as I understand it.
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On 14/11/2010 21:13, Zeder, Melinda wrote:
> or dinner since it likely came from South America where they are routinely eaten.
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> Hi Jacqui, how about the earliest (I think) direct evidence for a guineapig in England? Eliz I was supposed to have one and this chap (Sir Thomas Smith) was high up in the court (ambassador to France). The excavators are happy with the stratigraphy (ie its not a later pet burial!). As to whether a 'pet' or just a status symbol.......
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> Sheila
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> Hamilton-Dyer, S. (2009) Animal Bones, in (Paul Dury and Richard Simpson) Hill Hall; A Singular House Devised by a Tudor Intellectual, Society of Antiquaries/EH monograph pp345-351
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> On 14/11/2010 19:27, Jacqui Mulville wrote:
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> I am organising an Outreach event focused on Pets as a way of bringing zooarchaeology alive (including a visit to a pet cemetery) and getting people to think about relationships with animals other that eating them....and I am looking for good examples of animals identified as 'pets'.
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> I often start my undergrad discussions with how to identify a pet burial (e.g. evidence of veterinary care, good diet, aged individual, species, location, artefacts etc) but have rarely found any good examples. I can rustle up a few dogs under floors in Hebridean roundhouses, a dog trapped in a drain under the kitchen of Windsor Castle, cats in wells and a parrot in Norwich. Of course pets are something of a modern construct however can anyone provide good zooarchaeological examples of animals accorded special pet-like status? Any famous pets dug up? Any usual pet burials people know of? Also anyone ever excavated a pit pony? Or were they all fed to the dogs?
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> All suggestions welcome.....the weirder the better.
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