Hi Dannielle (and thanks for the book plug Don!),
There are two papers where I look a little at menageries - I can send pdfs to anyone who wants them:
Sykes. 2007. ‘Animal bones and animal parks’, in R. Liddiard (ed.) The Medieval Deer Park: New Perspectives. Windgather Press: Macclesfield, 49-62.
Sykes, N. J., White, J., Hayes, T. and Palmer, M. 2006. ‘Tracking animals using strontium isotopes in teeth: the role of fallow deer (Dama dama) in Roman Britain’. Antiquity 80, 1-12.
I am sure that you will already know Hannah O'Regan et al.'s excellent work:
O'Regan HJ, Turner A, Sabin R. 2006. Medieval big cat remains from the Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, vol. 16, 385-394.
O'Regan HJ and Kitchener AC. 2005. The effects of captivity on the morphology of captive, domesticated and feral mammals. MAMMAL REV, vol. 35(3-4), 215-230.
Other refs. to look at would be:
Kalof, L. (ed) 2007. A Cultural History of Animals in Antiquity. Berg: New York
Kisling, V. N. 2001. Zoo and Aquarium History: Ancient Animal Collections to Zoological Gardens. CRC Press: London.
Ritvo, H. 1987. The animal estate: the English and other creatures in the Victorian age. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.
All the best, Naomi
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Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Zoo origins
Danielle,
I recommend looking at Linda Karlof's book Looking at Animals in Human History published by Reaktion books in 2007. It raises some interesting issues regarding animal-human interaction and I'm sure some of the bibliographic references will be very useful for your research on zoos.
Also, there is a book called Extinctions and Invasions: A social history of British fauna. Edited by O'Connor and Sykes, published by Windgatherer in 2010. It is a collection of essays dealing with various species introduced into Britain from the Neolithic onwards. In it Naomi Sykes has a paper on fallow deer which discusses the introduction of the species by the Romans. She mentions various Roman writers such as Columella and Varro who discuss Roman animals parks. I recommend reading this paper and looking at the very useful bibliography.
Best of luck with your research.
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