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
Instituto Portugues de Arqueologia
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India 136
P-1300-300 LISBOA
Portugal
