Dear Deborah,
and alternative option (intrusive origin) for the presence of anuran
bones in the Late Bronze Age burial you mentioned was provided in:
DELFINO M., BAR-OZ G. AND WEISSBROD L., 2007. Recent shrinkage of the
range of the eastern spadefoot toad, Pelobates syriacus (Amphibia:
Anura): archaeological evidence from the Bronze Age of Israel. Zoology
in the Middle East, 40: 45-52.
You can find the abstract here:
http://www.kasparek-verlag.de/PDF%20Abstracts/PDF40%20Abstracts/045-052%20DelfinoOzWeissbrod.pdf
Best
Massimo
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Oggetto: Re: [ZOOARCH] amphians as grave goods
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> I have found a few toad anomalies burials in Cozumel and Cuello in
> Mayan context, and am looking further into it. Check out the Weissbrod
> and Bar-Oz article called Caprines and toads: taphonomic patterning of
> animal offering practices in a Late Bronze Age burial assemblage,
> published in Behaviour Behind Bones. The conclusion indicates food
> offerings in a sealed burial, found in jars. The cranial elements were
> missing, which may indicate food offerings due to the process of
> removing the skull when peeling back the skin (based on a Native
> American recipe!). Other sources discuss ritual use of hallucinogenic
> toads (bufo marinus).
>
> I would be interested in any further analysis.
>
> Deborah Andrews
> University of Florida
> Graduate Student
> Department of Anthropology
>
>
>
> On Wed Nov 17 08:50:07 EST 2010,
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_K=FCchelmann?= <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'd like to know if anybody knows of comparable finds to a peculiar
>> find situation from Xanten, Lower Rhine, Germany.
>>
>> In a Merovingian grave (early 7th century AD) within the dome of
>> Xanten six amphian mummies have been found in 1956. They were
>> placed together in a bowl. According to the other grave goods
>> (beads, glas vessels, a gold fibula) it was probably the grave of
>> a female, but there are no skeletal remains left for
>> anthropological analysis. An intrusion of hibernating amphibians
>> seems nearly impossible as the grave was made from tight closed
>> stone slabs and it was found intact let alone the find situation
>> in a bowl. The species of the amphibians has not been identified
>> yet. They are belonging to the order Anura, but it is not clear
>> yet if they are frogs or toads.
>>
>> Any comment welcome.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Christian
>>
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