10 January 2023 : Animal Bones and Seashells .... What can we learn from them
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Zooarchaeology as an area of study encompasses a set of issues that is increasingly more comprehensive and vaster than just dietary practices. |
In this context, a set of canids recovered from archaeological contexts of Roman chronology is presented, all of coastal nature, in which fishing activity and garum production were present.
Since the most remote times of human memory, canids, after their domestication, have been used as auxiliaries in the most varied activities, from pastoralism, hunting, to even fishing.
Considering that the individuals presented were inserted in fishing contexts, we intend to try to understand how these animals lived and what would be their role in the human society in which they were inserted.
Since the most remote times of human memory, canids, after their domestication, have been used as auxiliaries in the most varied activities, from pastoralism, hunting, to even fishing.
Considering that the individuals presented were inserted in fishing contexts, we intend to try to understand how these animals lived and what would be their role in the human society in which they were inserted.
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In the case of the specimens from Boca do Rio, it must also be considered that they present bone pathologies that may eventually be the result of the activities in which they were assistants.
Thus, a set of comparative data is presented that may help to know what its appearance, size, weight, among other morphological attributes could be.
Thus, a set of comparative data is presented that may help to know what its appearance, size, weight, among other morphological attributes could be.
In the context of the destruction of an old building at the Avenida da Republica in Faro and prior to the construction of a new building an archaeological survey was performed.
An analysis was performed on the shells and mammal finds from modern and Roman time.
An analysis was performed on the shells and mammal finds from modern and Roman time.
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Humberto Veríssimo has a masters degree in Archaeology from the University of the Algarve and is currently working on his doctoral thesis. He has volunteered in many archaeological projects in the Algarve and in Portugal. In the past years he has been the coordinator of the archaeological projects at the Sítio do Castelo do Alferce, Monchique and of the Sítio do Poço Antigo, Cacela Velha. In addition to that he is helping the AAA by producing the beautiful posters for the lectures.
Beatriz Pinto has a degree in Cultural Heritage and Archaeology. Her thesis dealt with the shell and mammal finds at an excavation in Faro. She has been a volunteer in several archaeological excavations in the Algarve and is currently head technician of an Archaeological company.
