Social taphonomy : agency, biography and chaiÌne opeÌratoire of cattle bones in a mediaeval European city
This PhD sets out to tackle the subject of animal bone material from heterogeneous pits, especially on the edge of Mediaeval European cities. These are often the most common feature encountered by zooarchaeologists yet the analysis given them often does little to add to our understanding of the lives and actions of the people who lived and worked in the city, or of the city's relationship with its region or hinterland. Chapter 1 reviews the approaches taken to answering some of these questions by zooarchaeologists in the past as well as outlining the history of taphonomic research as it applies to the question. Chapter 2 aims to provide context to current approaches to the subject through a brief overview of relevant urban history. Chapter 3 focuses on how zooarchaeologists have studied butchery, other carcass related products and their waste. This current approach is typified by a standard, or traditional, analysis of an assemblage from Princesshay, Exeter, South West Britain (a previously unstudied assemblage), in Chapter 4. The second half of the PhD takes a different tack. Having presented the status quo, chapter 5 looks at how similar questions from other allied branches of archaeology have been investigated.
Broderick, Lee G.
Social taphonomy : agency, biography and chaiÌne opeÌratoire of cattle bones in a mediaeval European city. This PhD sets out to tackle the subject of animal bone material from heterogeneous pits, especially on the edge of Mediaeval European cities. These are often the most common feature encountered by zooarchaeologists yet the analysis given them often does little to add to our understanding of the lives and actions of the people who lived and worked in the city, or of the city's relationship with its region or hinterland. Chapter 1 reviews the approaches taken to answering some of these questions by zooarchaeologists in the past as well as outlining the history of taphonomic research as it applies to the question. Chapter 2 aims to provide context to current approaches to the subject through a brief overview of relevant urban history. Chapter 3 focuses on how zooarchaeologists have studied butchery, other carcass related products and their waste. This current approach is typified by a standard, or traditional, analysis of an assemblage from Princesshay, Exeter, South West Britain (a previously unstudied assemblage), in Chapter 4. The second half of the PhD takes a different tack. Having presented the status quo, chapter 5 looks at how similar questions from other allied branches of archaeology have been investigated.
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