Dear Gaëtan,

Two parrot bones were found in post-medieval contexts from Norwich. They are reported in the following publications (you can download them both in my academia.edu page):

Albarella U. , Beech M., Locker A., Moreno-García M., Mulville J. & Curl J . 2009 . Norwich Castle : Excavations and Historical Surveys 1987-98. Part III: a Zooarchaeological Study. Norwich : East Anglian Archaeology Occasional Paper.

Albarella U. & Thomas R. 2002 They dined on crane: bird consumption, wild fowling and status in medieval England. In: Proceedings of the 4th Meeting of the ICAZ Bird Working Group Kraków, Poland, 11-15 September, 2001. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensa 45 (special issue), 23-38.

If you have found some that would be interesting to hear. At the time I could not find any parallels.

Best wishes,
Umberto



On 24 March 2016 at 13:18, G. Jouanin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Dear all,

i am currently working on pleasure birds during the Middle Ages and i am searching for archaeological mentions of parrot and parakeet.
Did you already identify one or the other of these species in medieval or post-medieval european contexts?

Best regards,

Gaëtan Jouanin
Laboratoire d'archéozoologie de Compiègne, CRAVO
UMR 7209 Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique : sociétés, pratiques et environnements



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