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Environ Archaeol 3
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Title:
Environ Archaeol 3
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Series:
Circaea
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Volume:
3
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Journal
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Year of Publication:
1998
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Date Of Issue From: 1998
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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20 Jan 2002
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On the Difficulty of Detecting Seasonal Slaughtering of Sheep
Terry P O'Connor
5 - 11
This paper questions whether the seasonal slaughtering of sheep can be identified in archaeological data from temperate Europe. Earlier work is reviewed, and the ethnohistorical record examined to determine the factors which have influenced seasonality of killing, with the aim of deciding what patterns of seasonal killing might potentially be reflected in the archaeological data. A consideration of the resolution of age-attribution methods shows whether the potential evidence can actually be discerned in archaeological material, and with what precision. Finally, some published data are reconsidered.
Birds; a Seasonal Resource
Dale Serjeantson
23 - 33
Three aspects of bird bones can be used as evidence for seasonality: (1) the presence or absence of bones of seasonal migrants or of resident species most easily or most economically caught in a single season; (2) medullary bone, found in the bones of females at the time of lay; (3) juvenile bones, recognised by elements still not fused or ankylosed, or by porosity of the articular ends. The evidence must be interpreted with care: bones may not be anthropogenic in origin, or they may be from species which could be stored or traded. In interpreting seasonal occupation of the site the bird bone evidence must be used only in conjunction with all other sources of evidence.
Insects in Urban Waste Pits in Viking York; Another Kind of Seasonality
Harry Kenward
Frances Large
35 - 53
A large number of samples of deposits with anoxic waterlogging from pits of Anglo-Scandinavian (mid 9th to mid 11th C) date at 16-22 Coppergate, York, have been analysed for their content of insect remains. In order to investigate the prospects of determining the duration of exposure of foul deposits, an attempt has been made to establish whether any components of the insect fauna can be regarded as indicators either of particular seasons of formation of the deposits or of a minimum period of exposure. Two approaches have been employed: (a) using published data concerning the period in which adult insects are active and (b) estimation of the time required for the development of the observed death assemblages. The first approach appears to be limited by available information concerning the modern adult activity period. The information obtained suggests that few relevant species have short activity periods and that active adults of many are present through much of the year. Consideration of the second approach has shown the need for modelling of community and death assemblage development, and some preliminary attempts are made towards this end.
Fishing; Evidence for Seasonality and Processing of Fish fo...
Ruby Céron-Carrasco
73 - 80
Evidence from fish remains recovered from two sites in the Northern Isles of Scotland is compared to modern data on fish ecology and ethnographic evidence to assess seasonality in terms of resource availability and its implications for economic activities.
The Annual Round; an Overview of the AEA Conference 1994
Terry P O'Connor
The content and main themes of the conference are reviewed in brief. Several papers raised the need for further data from experimentation and modern analogues. The ethnohistorical record is dearly a valuable source of information, though not necessarily of direct analogues for the past, and papers presented here reminded us of the ways in which storage of seasonally acquired resources may result in year-round use, and thus a loss of evidence for seasonal behaviour in the archaeological record. The social importance of seasonality was rather missing from the conference papers, though the point was raised in discussions during the conference.
