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‘The mystery of husbandry’: medieval animals and the problem of integrating historical and archaeological evidence

Part of: Zooarchaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Umberto Albarella
Umberto Albarella*
Affiliation:
Department of Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, England. u.albarella @bham.ac.uk
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Abstract

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Archaeological evidence and historic records are often at variance on the subject of animal husbandry. This paper discusses the problems of integrating the evidence for medieval and later Britain, and offers new discussion on the interpretation of the zooarchaeological data.

Keywords

Britainmedievalarchaeozoologyhusbandryagriculturedocumentseconomy
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Antiquity , Volume 73 , Issue 282 , December 1999 , pp. 867 - 875
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1999

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