The Excavations of San Giovanni di Ruoti : : Volume III: The Faunal and Plant Remains / / Michael MacKinnon.

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• VerfasserIn: MacKinnon, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes ; 40
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This third volume of The Excavations of San Giovanni di Ruoti series deals with the social, economic, and environmental information derived from the analysis of zooarchaeological and palaeobotanical remains found at the fourth-century A.D. Italian villa of San Giovanni di Ruoti. The four contributors use the large collection of organic evidence obtained from the site, including mammal and bird bones, shells, land snails, and plant remains, to provide information on diet, food preparation, economics, trade routes, taxation, local environment and climate, agricultural economy, and animal husbandry. With both technical analysis and an interpretive component, the contributors offer various reconstructions of Roman life, often in combination with "ations from ancient literary sources, allowing this work to appeal to both the specialist and layperson alike. Written with a thoroughness and attention to detail not often seen in zooarchaeological work, this analysis represents an important advance in the study of faunal and botanical data in Roman archaeology in Italy, and will be an invaluable resource for all environmental and classical archaeologists.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Animal Bones / MacKinnon, M.R. -- Appendix 1. Measurements of mammalian bones and teeth, arranged by taxon, part of skeleton, and period / phase -- Appendix 2. M3 measurements from domestic and wild pigs from various archaeological sites -- Appendix 3. Scientific nomenclature of mammalian taxa listed in this report -- Appendix 4. A human foetus from a midden of Period 3B / Steele, D.G. / MacKinnon, M.R. -- 2. The Avian Remains / Eastham, A. -- 3. Marine and Freshwater Shells / Reese, D.S. -- 4. Land Snails / MacKinnon, M.R. -- 5. Plant Remains / Monckton, S.G. -- Bibliography -- Illustrations -- Indexes -- Phoenix Supplementary Volumes