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Dear Nora, a brief summary with references and tables on the recovery of exotic animals in Italy, from late antiquity to Middle Ages, in addition to the archaeological evidence on the connection between animal findings and Games, you can find there: 1. Salvadori F. 2011, Zooarcheologia e controllo delle risorse economiche locali nel Medioevo, "Post Classical Archaeologies" 1, pp. 195-244 (if you are interested in let me know and I can send you the pdf) 2. Salvadori 2015, Uomini e animali nel Medioevo. Ricerche archeozoologiche in Italia, tra analisi di laboratorio e censimento dell'edito, Edizioni Accademiche Italiane, OmniScriptum GmbH & Co. KG., Saarbrucken (in particular Part II, Chapter E. I giochi. More info on this book at this address: https://www.academia.edu/11947547/Uomini_e_animali_nel_Medioevo._Ricerche_Archeozoologiche_in_Italia_tra_analisi_di_laboratorio_e_censimento_delledito ). All the Best Frank Il giorno mer 21 ott 2015 alle 12:41 Sonja Vukovic <[log in to unmask]> ha scritto: > Dear Nora, > > I am sorry for posting about camels - I overlooked that you are looking > only for "entertainment" exotic animals. Although camels were mostly used > for transport, there are several ancient texts that mention their > involvement in Roman games, so maybe you can consider them also. > > Aside from several finds and papers that other colleagues have already > mentioned, there is a find of a lion tooth from Pisa in Italy (Sorrentino, > C. 1999. Intervista a Claudio Sorrentino. Navi romane a Pisa. Il mistero > del leone svelato in 10 domande. Libera opinione anno 1, n. 2. ). There are > also several elephant and lion bones from North Africa - the area that is > not included into your thesis and also the area where those animals were > not exotic, but is worth knowing, as there is really a small number of > "entertainment" animal bones that had been found within Roman > archaeological sites - if you compare the number of beasts killed in the > games that ancient writers mentioned to number of beasts bone remains - > there is a huge difference.. > > This paper on lions by L. Bartosiewitz should also be of interest for you: > > Bartosiewicz, L. 2009. A Lion’s share of attention: Archaeozoology and the > Historical Record. *Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae* > 60: 275-289. > > Good luck, > > Sonja. > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Battermann, Nora M. < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> >> thank you for all the interesting information and the articles I have >> received! >> >> If you stumble across anything else over the coming months I would be >> very greatful if you could let me know! >> >> >> I have got two more specific queries concerning two of your emails: >> >> - Gabriele: I would be very greatful if you could let me know the number >> of bones of exotic species you have been able to identify, if that >> information is easily accessible to you (same goes for the periodes they >> date to and the specific bone recovered). >> >> - Yean-Hervé: Same here - I would be very greatful if you could let me >> know the context it was discovered in (drain? occupational layer in a >> building?) and whether there are any other hints like cut marks as to >> whether this was part of a skin or not. >> >> >> Thanks again to all of you - please, keep sending word about exotic >> mammal remains! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Nora >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Gabriele Soranna <[log in to unmask]> >> *Sent:* 20 October 2015 15:40 >> *To:* Battermann, Nora M. >> *Cc:* [log in to unmask] >> *Subject:* Re: [ZOOARCH] Roman exotic animal remains >> >> Dear Nora, >> the topic is extremely interesting, particularly, I think, because of all >> the implications trade in exotic animals triggered in the Roman World >> (economically and culturally for games, products like fur, meat, then >> status and so on; land and maritime routes; role of commercial harbours >> like Ostia, Alexandria, Carthage, Beritus, etc.), beyond the surprise of >> finding out a lion or baboon bone among heaps of pig ones within the >> assemblage... >> As far as exotic taxa are concerned in Roman Italy, I think it may be >> helpful to get in touch with Jacopo (De Grossi Mazzorin). Moreover he took >> part at the latest ICAZ Roman Period Working Group on the topic itself... >> Published data are unfortunately rather limited and scanty. >> >> As for me, I am currently working on a large bone assemblage from Rome >> (Palatine Hill, just in front of the Flavian Amphitheatre-Coliseum), >> spanning from Early Republic (VI-V cent. BC) till Early Middle Age (XI-XII >> AD): so you can imagine I may have the chance of stumbling upon some exotic >> specimens on the site, thus I am pretty interested on comparative >> references on the topic. >> So far I identified several lions, even though I suspect some of those >> specimens might come from tiger (I am struggling to retrieve references, >> atlases or collections from tigers), leopard/cheetah, ostrich, apart from >> bears. Currently I am processing a IV cent AD SU/context with at least one >> crocodile. I do not exclude big cats, large birds, and primates I may have >> noticed while scanning other boxes still to process but I cannot yet be >> sure of it at the moment. >> >> >> Gabriele Soranna >> >> Freelance Field Archaeologist >> Freelance Zooarchaeologist >> Rome, Italy >> >> >> 2015-10-19 23:43 GMT+02:00 Battermann, Nora M. <[log in to unmask]>: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> >>> I am currently researching exotic animal remains in the Roman world for >>> my BA dissertation. >>> >>> >>> For this I am struggling to find any more animal bone evidence. I am >>> dealing with modern Italy, France, Spain, England and the military area >>> around the Rhine/Danube frontier. The exotic animals I am looking for >>> should: >>> - be mammals >>> - be foreign to the whole area dealt with >>> - predominantly be moved around for purposes of curiosity or >>> entertainment rather than food stuff (e.g. edible doormouse) or means of >>> transport (e.g. camel) >>> >>> I am aware of the following finds although references on the ones >>> indicated below would be appreciated: >>> - Elephant, Ostia (Italy) *(any references?)* >>> - Giraffe, Pompeii (Italy) *(any references?)* >>> - Lion, Rome (Italy) >>> - Panther, Rome (Italy) >>> - Leopard, Rome (Italy) >>> - Barbary Macaque, Llivia (Spain) >>> - Barbary Macaque, Dunstable (England) >>> - Barbary Macaque, Poiters (France) *(any references?)* >>> - Barbary Macaque, Catterick (England) >>> - Barbary Macaque, Wroxeter (England) >>> - Barbary Macaque, Pompeii (Italy) >>> - Barbary Macaque, Rainau-Buch (Germany) *(any references?)* >>> - Baboon, Moselle (France) *(any references?)* >>> >>> I would greatly appreciate your help! >>> Kind regards, >>> Nora >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Sonja Vukovic-Bogdanovic > Laboratory for bioarchaeology > Faculty of Philosophy > University of Belgrade > Serbia > www.bioarchlab.org >