The excavations of San Giovanni di Ruoti. Volume 3. : the faunal and plant remains / Michael MacKinnon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacKinnon, Michael, author.

Series:

Phoenix. Supplementary volume (Toronto, Ont.) ; 40.

Excavations of San Giovanni di Ruoti ; v. 3

Phoenix Supplementary Volumes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Country homes--Italy--San Giovanni di Ruoti Site.

Country homes.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--San Giovanni di Ruoti Site.

Excavations (Archaeology).

San Giovanni di Ruoti Site (Italy).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This third volume of The Excavations of San Giovanni di Ruoti series deals with the social, economic, and environmental information derived from the analysis of zooarchaeological and palaeobotanical remains found at the fourth-century A.D. Italian villa of San Giovanni di Ruoti. The four contributors use the large collection of organic evidence obtained from the site, including mammal and bird bones, shells, land snails, and plant remains, to provide information on diet, food preparation, economics, trade routes, taxation, local environment and climate, agricultural economy, and animal husbandry. With both technical analysis and an interpretive component, the contributors offer various reconstructions of Roman life, often in combination with "ations from ancient literary sources, allowing this work to appeal to both the specialist and layperson alike. Written with a thoroughness and attention to detail not often seen in zooarchaeological work, this analysis represents an important advance in the study of faunal and botanical data in Roman archaeology in Italy, and will be an invaluable resource for all environmental and classical archaeologists.

Contents:

""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""LIST OF TABLES""; ""LIST OF FIGURES""; ""PREFACE""; ""ABBREVIATIONS""; ""1. The Animal Bones""; ""A. Introduction""; ""B. Methods""; ""1. General recovery""; ""2. Recovery in middens""; ""3. Identifications""; ""4. Quantification""; ""5. Aging and sexing""; ""6. Measurements""; ""7. Taphonomic measures""; ""8. Butchery and meat weights""; ""9. Pathologies""; ""C. Results""; ""1. General recovery and quantification""; ""2. Recovery and quantification in middens""; ""3. Taphonomy""; ""4. Cautionary notes""; ""5. Frequency of species""

""6. Principal domesticated animals""""7. Other domesticated animals""; ""8. Wild mammals""; ""9. Other animals, except birds""; ""10. Butchery and meat cuts""; ""11. Diet""; ""12. Spatial patterning of bones""; ""D. Discussion and Interpretations of the Faunal Sample""; ""1. UNID component""; ""2. ID component""; ""3. Butchery""; ""4. Preservation of meat""; ""5. Cooking and consumption""; ""E. Conclusions""; ""Appendix 1 Measurements of mammalian bones and teeth, arranged by taxon, part of skeleton, and period / phase""

""Appendix 2 M3 measurements from domestic and wild pigs from various archaeological sites""""Appendix 3 Scientific nomenclature of mammalian taxa listed in this report""; ""Appendix 4 A human foetus from a midden of Period 3B""; ""2. The Avian Remains""; ""A. Domesticated bird species""; ""1. Gallus gallus, domestic fowl""; ""2. Anser anser, domesticated goose of greylag type""; ""B. Wild bird species""; ""1. Notes on the avian aspects of the ecological background""; ""2. Site study""; ""3. Species notes""; ""C. Summary""; ""3. Marine and Freshwater Shells""; ""4. Land Snails""

""A. Introduction""""B. Methods""; ""1. General recovery""; ""2. Identifications and quantification""; ""3. Environmental reconstruction""; ""C. Results and discussion""; ""1. General environmental reconstruction""; ""2. Rooms""; ""3. Food species""; ""D. Conclusions""; ""5. Plant Remains""; ""A. Wood charcoal""; ""1. Methods""; ""2. Results""; ""3. Patterns in wood charcoal deposition""; ""B. Charred seeds""; ""1. Methods of analysis""; ""2. Results and comments""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""INDEXES""; ""Index of Rooms""; ""Index of Features""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-03391-3

9786612033919

1-4426-8123-3

OCLC:

1013940953