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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144446003321

Autore

Groot Maaike

Titolo

Animals in ritual and economy in a Roman frontier community : excavations in Tiel-Passewaaij / / Maaike Groot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2008

ISBN

9786611988456

9781281988454

1281988456

9789048502325

9048502322

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 271 pages) : illustrations, plans, maps; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Amsterdam archaeological studies ; ; volume 12

Disciplina

949.23

Soggetti

Romans - Netherlands - Tiel

Animals - Religious aspects

Excavations (Archaeology) - Netherlands - Tiel

Tiel (Netherlands) Antiquities, Roman

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209).

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Animals and the economy of a rural community -- 3. Animals and ritual within a rural settlement -- 4. Animals in funerary ritual.

Sommario/riassunto

This new volume in the acclaimed Amsterdam Archaeological Studies series explores the roles of animals in a rural community in the civitas Batavorum in the 1st to 3rd centuries ad. Large-scale excavations of two settlements and a cremation cemetery in Tiel-Passewaaij have yielded an animal bone assemblage of around 30,000 fragments. The study compares data from both the settlements and the cemetery, assessing the role of livestock in the local economy and the production of surplus products for the Roman market. The author also investigates the use of animals in funerary and other rituals. The inclusion of a catalogue of special animal deposits makes it a valuable reference work for animal bone specialists. Amsterdam Archaeological Studies is a series devoted to the study of past human societies from the prehistory



up into modern times, primarily based on the study of archaeological remains. The series will include excavation reports of modern fieldwork; studies of categories of material culture; and synthesising studies with broader images of past societies, thereby contributing to the theoretical and methodological debates in archaeology.