October 05, 2021

Time Warped! Part Five - The Zooarchaeology of the Medieval Period - Ep 39

56 minutes

On the last instalment of the ‘Time Warped’ miniseries, Alex and Simona discuss animal exploitation in the Medieval period. Also ineffective door-to-door Beaker salesmen, snail-riding cats and confusing cave site stratigraphy.

Links

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/story-of-england/medieval/

https://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/when-were-the-middle-ages-2/

Ashby, S.P. (2002) The role of zooarchaeology in the interpretation of socioeconomic status: a discussion with reference to Medieval Europe. Archaeological Review from Cambridge. pp. 37-59.

http://bestiary.ca/intro.htm

Fitzpatrick, A. (2019) Identification of avian remains from Covesea Cave 2, on the Moray Firth coast, northeastern Scotland. Cave and Karst.

Yu, H. et al. (2021) Palaeogenomic analysis of black rat (Rattus rattus) reveals multiple European introductions associated with human economic history. Biorxiv [Preprint].

- Bramanti, B. et al. (2021) Assessing the origins of the European Plagues following the Black Death: A synthesis of genomic, historical, and ecological information. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sep 2021, 118 (36).

- Hodges, R. (2012) Dark Age Economics, Bloomsbury Publishing

Contact

Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

Music "Coconut - (dyalla remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY

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