I'm guessing low-status food... Except for quail (caille) and pheasant (faisan)?
AB
Prof. Ariane Burke,
Dept. d'anthropologie,
Université de Montréal,
C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville
Montreal, QC
Canada, H3C 3J7
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From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites on behalf of Lee G. Broderick
Sent: Tue 2010-11-16 9:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Animal Writes - zooarchaeology of Pets
I'm sure most people on this list are aware of this, but the English "linguistic separation between meat and the animal" is a result of the Norman conquest - the Anglo-Saxons tended the animals in life, but then served the prepared product to their Norman overlords, at which point they acquired the French word:
Cow > Beef (Bouef)
Sheep > Mutton (Mouton)
Pig > Pork (Porc)
Deer > Venison (Venaison)
Quite why this didn't affect the vocabulary relating to poultry I have no idea.
Best regards,
Lee G. Broderick. BA (Hons), MSc, FZS
Zooarchaeologist
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From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jacqui Mulville
Sent: 16 November 2010 13:06
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Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Animal Writes - zooarchaeology of Pets
Thanks for the information provided by folk so far....
We have already done a workshop based around dogs and domestication, (youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOqTFgiUWVk <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOqTFgiUWVk> and blog/website http://futureanimals.wordpress.com/ <http://futureanimals.wordpress.com/> ) . Dogs are good example as they are both 'pets', working animals and food - however I am keen to expand our range of examples to other species.
We do have a challenge in that most modern day interactions with animals are based around pets and to a lesser extent food - (or CGI stories!) . Of course in the English our linguistic separation between meat and the animal e.g. beef and cattle is also interesting (I remember the day my daughter could read duck in the supermarket - wanted to know why ducks were in there and then shrieked when I told her we ate animals - she thought beef/pork/sausages were an abstraction - and was strangely immune to chickens (I think feeding ducks in the park was more relevant to her)).
Anyhow trying to come up with an appreciation of animals in society in 30 mins is a challenge, and in my experience of the 'future animals' dog focused work shop pets were the one thing everyone could (and would) talk about and it was remarkably easy to then move to discussions on the ethics of animal breeding and then to food production and security (and beyond).
We will be creating some on-line resources relating to these workshops in due course and we also have a student event to broaden out the workshops to environmental archaeology coming up soon http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=155858611112288 <http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=155858611112288> .
In the meantime any more evidence for ancient pets will be most welcome....
Jacqui Mulville (PhD),
Follow - Leverhulme Artist in Residence at Osteography
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School of History, Archaeology and Religion,
Cardiff University, Humanities Building, Colum Drive, CARDIFF, CF10 3EU
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/people/archaeology/jm1/ <http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/people/archaeology/jm1/>
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