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Título:
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What Happened in That Pit? An Archaeozoological and GIS Approach to Study an Accumulation of Animal Carcasses at the Roman Villa of Vilauba (Catalonia)
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Autor/a:
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Colominas Barberà, Lídia; Castanyer i Masoliver, Pere, 1961-; Frigola, Joan; Tremoleda i Trilla, Joaquim, 1962-
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Abstract:
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Some of the deposits of animal remains documented throughout prehistory and history are clearly something other than ordinary waste from meat consumption. For the Roman period and based on their characteristics, these assemblages have been classified as butchery deposits, raw material deposits, deposits created for the hygienic management and disposal of animal carcasses, or ritual deposits. However, some are difficult to classify, and the parameters that define each of them are not clear. Here, we present a unique deposit from the Roman villa of Vilauba (Catalonia). A total of 783 cattle remains were found in an irregular-shaped 187 m2 pit originally dug to extract the clay used in the construction of the villa walls around the third quarter of the 1st century AD. The application of a contextual taphonomy approach, with the integration of archaeozoological variables, stratigraphy and context, and a GIS analysis, allowed us to document the nature and formation of this singular assemblage. It consisted of the carcasses of 14 cattle individuals from which the meat had been removed to take advantage of it by preserving it. Therefore, the parameters that characterise the refuse of this activity are presented here as a baseline for other studies. |
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Notas:
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L. Colominas is funded by a Ramón Cajal contract (RYC2019-026732-I-AEI/10.13039/501100011033). This study is part of the four-year archaeological research project entitled Dinàmica del poblament rural, arquitectura, economia i paisatge de les villae a l’àrea del Pla de l’Estany-Garrotxa entre els segles II-I aC i el segles VII-VIII dC (2018–2021) (CLT009/18/00073), Department of Culture of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia. It is also part of the R&D project Ager Mutabilis II, La explotación del territorio de Emporiae y Gerunda durante el bajo imperio romano y la tardoantigüedad; PID2019-105759GB-I00; Ministry of Science and Innovation. |
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Fecha de creación:
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26-06-2021 |
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Materias (CDU):
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90 - Arqueologia. Prehistòria |
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Materia(s):
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Restes d'animals (Arqueologia) -- Península Ibèrica
Vilauba (Camós, Pla de l'Estany : Jaciment arqueològic)
Tafonomia
Aliments -- Península Ibèrica |
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Derechos:
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© 2021 by the authors.
Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
This article is an open access article
distributed under the terms and
conditions of the Creative Commons
Attribution (CC BY) license (https://
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/
4.0/). |
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Páginas:
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24 p. |
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Tipo de documento:
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Artículo
Artículo - Versión publicada |
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ISSN:
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2076-2615
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DOI:
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10.3390/ani11082214
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Editor:
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MDPI
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Publish at:
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Animals 2021, 11(8), 2214
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