Dear All, To those interested, medieval chicken burials are listed by Márta Daróczi-Szabó (2010): “Pets in pots: Superstitious belief in a Medieval Christian (12th–14th c.) Village in Hungary” (pp. 243-249, Chapter 25) in Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology: Colonialism, Complexity and Animal Transformations edited by Douglas V. Campana; Pamela Crabtree; S. D. deFrance; Justin Lev-Tov and A. M. Choyke. https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/anthropological-approaches-to-zooarchaeology.html Anthropological Approaches to Zooarchaeology<https://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/anthropological-approaches-to-zooarchaeology.html> www.oxbowbooks.com Animals in complex human societies are often both meal and symbol, related to everyday practice and ritual. People in such societies may be characterized as having unequal access to such resources, or else the meaning of animals may differ for compon This is part of the proceedings of the 2006 ICAZ conference in Mexico City. Best wishes, Laszlo ________________________________ From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Zohar Turgeman <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 21 August 2018 22:32:46 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [ZOOARCH] Chicken burial Dear Zooarchs, I'm currently working on a report dealing with a small faunal assemblage dated to the Othmanic period in central Israel. At the site, the excavators found a complete yang rooster placed in a jug and buried. I haven't found any references or mentions of this sort of find. If any of you ever encountered one I will appreciate hearing about it. All the best, Zohar Turgeman-Yaffe Ph.D. student, University of Haifa Antiquities Authority Israel ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ZOOARCH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ZOOARCH&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ZOOARCH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ZOOARCH&A=1