Behaviour Behind Bones: The zooarchaeology of ritual, religion, status and identity

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This book is the first in a series of volumes which form the published proceedings of the 9th meeting of the International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ), held in Durham in 2002. The 35 papers present a series of case studies from around the world. They stretch beyond the standard zooarchaeological topics of economy and ecology, and consider how zooarchaeological research can contribute to our understanding of human behaviour and social systems. The volume is divided into two parts. Part 1, Beyond Calories, focuses on the zooarchaeology of ritual and religion. Contributors discuss ways to approach questions of ritual and religion through the faunal record, and consider how material culture depicting and/or associated with animals can provides clues about ideology, religious practices and the role of animals within spiritual systems. Part 2, Equations for Inequality, looks at questions of identity, status and other forms of social differentiation in former human societies. Contributors discuss how differences in food consumption, nutrition, and food procurement strategies can be related to various forms of social differentiation among individuals and groups. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Introduction Part 1: Beyond calories: the zooarchaeology of ritual and religion edited by Sharyn Jones O’Day Chapter 1: Feasting with the dead? – a ritual bone deposit at Domuztepe, south eastern Turkey (c. 5550 cal BC) Chapter 2: Animal offerings found in Necropoleis belonging to Santana of Mures-Cerniahov culture from the east and the south extra-Carpathian Zones of Romania Chapter 3: Caprines and toads: taphonomic patterning of animal offering practices in a Late Bronze Age burial assemblage Chapter 4: The butchering patterns of Gamla and Yodefat: beginning the search for kosher practices Chapter 5: Predynastic Egyptian bovid burial in the elite cemetery at Hierakonpolis Chapter 6: Typhonic bones: a ritual deposit from Saqqara? Chapter 7: Bones and bowls: a preliminary interpretation of the faunal remains from the Punic levels in Area B, at the temple of Tas-Silg, Malta Chapter 8: An Iron Age bone assemblage from Durezza Cave, Carinthia, Austria: detecting ritual behaviour through archaeozoological and taphonomical analyses Chapter 9: Ritual feasting in the Irish Iron Age: re-examining the fauna from Dún Ailinne in light of contemporary archaeological theory Chapter 10: The economic and non-economic animal: Roman depositions and offerings Chapter 11: Roman suovitaurilia and its predecessors Chapter 12: Gastronomy or religion? the animal remains from the mithraeum at Tienen (Belgium) Chapter 13: Prehispanic guinea pig sacrifices in southern Perú, the case of El Yaral Chapter 14: Animals from the Maya underworld: reconstructing elite Maya ritual at the Cueva de los Quetzales, Guatemala Chapter 15: Observations on the religious content of the animal imagery of the ‘Gran Coclé’ semiotic tradition of pre-Columbian Panama Chapter 16: Identifying ritual use of animals in the northern American Southwest Chapter 17: Facts and fantasies: the archaeology of the Marquesan dog Chapter 18: Past and present perspectives on secular ritual: food and the fisherwomen of the Lau Islands, Fiji Part 2: Equations for inequality: the zooarchaeology of identity, status and other forms of social differentiation in former human societies edited by Wim Van Neer and Anton Ervynck Chapter 19: Early evidence of economic specialization or social differentiation: a case study from the Neolithic lake shore settlement ‘Arbon-Bleiche 3’ (Switzerland) Chapter 20: Levels of social identity expressed in the refuse and worked bone from Middle Bronze Age Százhalombatta- Földvár, Vatya culture, Hungary Chapter 21: Animal husbandry and centralized cultures. How social and political factors can influence rural lifestyle Chapter 22: Food for the dead, the priest, and the mayor: looking for status and identity in the Middle Kingdom settlement at South Abydos, Egypt Chapter 23: Remains of traded fish in archaeological sites: indicators of status, or bulk food? Chapter 24: Orant, pugnant, laborant. The diet of the three orders in the feudal society of medieval north-western Europe Chapter 25: Dietary habits of a monastic community as indicated by animal bone remains from Early Modern Age in Austria Chapter 26: Status as reflected in food refuse of late medieval noble and urban households at Namur (Belgium) Chapter 27: Food, status and formation processes: a case study from medieval England Chapter 28: Animal bones as indicators of kosher food refuse from 14th century AD Buda, Hungary Chapter 29: Ethnic traditions in meat consumption and herding at a 16th century Cumanian settlement in the Great Hungarian Plain Chapter 30: Rich, poor, shaman, child: animals, rank, and status in the ‘Gran Coclé’ culture area of pre-Columbian Panama Chapter 31: Hunting and social differentiation in the late prehispanic American Southwest Chapter 32: Zooarchaeological evidence for changing socioeconomic status within early historic Native American communities in Mid-Atlantic North America Chapter 33: Implications of risk theory for understanding nineteenth century slave diets in the southern United States Chapter 34: Cultural identity and the consumption of dogs in western Africa Chapter 35: Hunting practices and consumption patterns in rural communities in the Rif mountains (Morocco) – some ethno-zoological notes