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Comparing bird bones from Saxon sites: problems of interpretation

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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 137 KB
Volume: 7
Category: Article
ISSN: 1047-482X
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1212(199707/08)7:4<415::aid-oa392>3.0.co;2-e

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✦ Synopsis

Bird bones from Saxon settlements in England provide evidence for considerable exploitation of birds, especially domestic poultry. This paper discusses some of the problems of analysing the relative importance of birds and of the ratio of fowls and geese. Detailed comparison of the results from sites in Southampton suggest that the ®rst questions the faunal analyst should be asking concern methods of recovery and quanti®cation.

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