Dear Alice,
In these days I read on the newspaper about the discovery of the remains of
giraffe in Pompeii.
See:
http://www.ibtimes.com/ancient-pompeii-diet-consisted-giraffe-flamingo-sea-u
rchin-other-exotic-delicacies-1526776
There is also an interesting paper of Thierry Buquet about “La belle
captive. La girafe dans les ménageries princičres au Moyen Age”. You can
find it on Academia.edu.
Best wishes
Jacopo
Da: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites
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Oggetto: [ZOOARCH] Giraffe finds from Roman, Late Antique and medieval sites
Hello!
A colleague of mine is writing a book on medieval giraffes based
mainly on textual and image sources. However, he would be very interested to
know about giraffe bone finds from Roman, Late Antique or medieval
archaeological sites. If anyone knows about such finds could you please send
me references or information with some context provided? I can then send
them on.
Best,
Alice
