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There was a very interesting paper given at ICAZ this summer by Louis Chaix, concerning graves at Kerma in the Sudan, were one grave contained 4100 cattle skulls arranged into lines around the grave. Hope this helps Jim Southern Archaeological Services >From: Jesper Sørensen Østergaard Reply-To: Jesper Sørensen Østergaard To: >[log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Body-part selection Date: >Thu, 1 May 2003 05:44:09 -0700 > >Hi Simon I can't remember anything published right now. But I was thinking >about heads/skulls appearing in shrines. Examples on the cattle skulls from >Catal Höyök, and maybe also in Minoan contexts (comsidering all their >plastic art and painting); or thru the Bronze Age in the near east and SE >Europe. Also in Egypt there a lot of selectiveness on the limbs of animals, >they appear in paintings in tombs where the deseased is offered variuous >animals and cuts of them in a offering banket. > >Regards Jesper S. Østergaard Hessensgade 22 2300 Copenhagen S Denmark > >--- Simon Davis wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > I am trying to put together a >brief review of > zoo-archaeological and modern ethnographic examples > of >selection of well defined/specific parts of the > body of animals for >sacrifice/ritual (NOT for craft > or industrial purposes). > > The ones >that I have so far include the right hind > limbs of caprines at the >Archaic period Temple of > Apollo (Cyprus); right forelimbs of caprines at >Iron > Age Tell Qiri, Israel; a cattle skull assemblage at > Bronze Age >Irthlingborough in England; burnt > Mycenean bones from the Palace of >Nestor (Isaakidou > et al.)and several examples of preference for cervid > >hind limbs at Castle sites in England (supposedly > offered to the "Lords >of the Castle"). > > Does anyone know of a/some recently published > >examples of these kinds of occurrences? > > Any help would be very much >appreciated ! > > Thanks, > > simon davis > [log in to unmask] > > >Instituto Portugues de Arqueologia > Avenida da India 136 > P-1300-300 >LISBOA > Portugal > > > > > >__________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - >Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com _________________________________________________________________ Surf together with new Shared Browsing http://join.msn.com/?page=features/browse&pgmarket=en-gb&XAPID=74&DI=1059