PS to the sea urchin query.
I can confirm that sea urchins are delicious - I recently ate sea urchin
pasta in Sicily.
Dale Serjeantson
Visiting Fellow
Archaeology
University of Southampton
SO17 1BJ
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On 05/06/2016 15:45, "Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites
on behalf of Jacopo De Grossi Mazzorin" <[log in to unmask] on behalf
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>Dear Lidia, also for me they are sea urchin spines. Also Sphaerechinus
>granularis is edible (I ate it ...) and, following A. Palombi and M.
>Santarelli (Gli animali commestibili dei mari d'Italia, Ed. Hoepli,
>Milano, 1990), also the other sea urchins (see pp. 294-295). It is
>possible that you can find between the zooarchaeological materials also
>the elements of the Aristotle’s lantern. I found it (with spines an
>test's fragments) in the archaeozoological remains of the roman Sanctuary
>of Tas Silg in Malta (I BC- I AD); I posted the photos in my ZooBook page
>( http://zooarchaeology.ning.com/profile/JacopoDeGrossiMazzorin ).
>Best,
>Jacopo
>
>
>> Dear Zooarch,
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>> Does anyone can help me in the identification of these roman faunal
>> remains?
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>> http://zooarchaeology.ning.com/photo/sea-urchin-1
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>> I was wondering if they are spines from sea urchins (*paracentrotus
>> lividus*).
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>> I would very much appreciate any thoughts!
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>> Thank you,
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>> LÃdia Colominas
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