Weronika, we had a number of headless piglets from the East
Granary recovery at Vindolanda. My interpretation of these was that they were
smoked, and had been hung up in the Granary for storage (the Granary served to
store other types of durable food besides grain). Then, however, they appear to
have gotten past their “use by” date, whereupon somebody chucked them through a
crack in the stone floor, so that we recovered them from the subfloor. I
meticulously matched and reassembled all the piglet parts that were recovered,
which was something of a job since all the epiphyses had fallen off the long
bone shafts and the vertebral centra had not yet ossified to the arches – so I
had quite a bit of gluing to do. My point being that with a good effort at
sieving so that we got most bodyparts, plus my efforts to put the piggies back
together, if any skull parts had been there I think I would have seen them; but
there was not so much as a stray tooth.
The East Granary paper authored by myself and my colleague Robert
M. Timm is (or should be) available from Vindolanda, in the volume they
published on that subject edited by Birley and Blake. I’m sorry I don’t have a
.pdf of that paper that can be transmitted by Email. Hope this helps. – Deb
Bennett
From: Analysis of animal remains from
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Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] theories on animal decapitation
You might also find an interpretation of decapitation of
horses (with which I do not agree) in the following book (see pages 8-10) :
Müller
Hanns-Hermann, Frühgeschichtliche Pferdeskelettfunde im Gebiet der Deutschen
Demokratischen Republik, Weimar : Museum für Ur- u. Frühgeschichte
Thüringens, coll. « Beiträge zur Archäozoologie, 4 ; Weimarer Monographien
zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte, 15 ».
If you find anything else on animals, I would be very pleased to know about it!
I have similar problems with this interpretation.
All the best, Ilona
BEDE Ilona
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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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