Hi, in the same book you can find also quoted the ostrich bone of Meta Sudans
(p. 141).
Jacopo
,
> There are ostrich bones from Constantinople, the European side (ha ha).
> Look for Cakirlar & Atici in the Oxford Handbook.
> Best wishes,
>
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> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Sonja Vukovic <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Juan,
>>
>> what a great find!
>>
>> There are ostrich remains from sites connected to the Roman Colosseum in
>> Rome, published in:
>>
>> De Grossi Mazzorin, Iacopo 1995. "La fauna rinvenuta nell’area della
>> Meta
>> Sudans nel quadro evolutivo degli animali domestici in Italia." In Atti
>> del
>> I Convegno Nazionale di Archeozoologia, 309-318. Rovigo: Collana di
>> Studi
>> Monografici del Centro Polesano di Studi Storici, Archeologici ed
>> Etnografici (PADUSA Quaderni no. 1)
>>
>> And also, there is a note that they have been found within Roman
>> Carthage
>> (actually not Europe, but probably can be of interest for you), check
>> this
>> paper:
>>
>> MacKinnon, Michael. 2006. "Supplying Exotic Animals for the Roman
>> Amphitheatre Games." Mouseion 6:1-25.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Sonja.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 6:24 PM, Juan Enrique Padilla Sánchez <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Zooarchers,
>>>
>>> I have found a metatarsus from an ostrich in a byzantine site in SE
>>> Spain
>>> (Cartagena, Murcia).
>>> Looking throught the literature, I am surprised to find out that no
>>> records of this species exist in Iberia an Europe and I have only come
>>> accross two records in South African sites. Is this correct? does any
>>> one
>>> know of ostrich remains (excluding eggs) at sites from Europe?
>>>
>>> Thank for your help.
>>>
>>> Best regards.
>>>
>>> Juan Enrique Padilla Sánchez
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sonja Vuković - Bogdanovic, PhD
>> Assistant Professor
>> Laboratory for bioarchaeology, Archaeology Department
>> Faculty of Philosophy
>> University of Belgrade
>> Serbia
>> www.bioarchlab.org
>>
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