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    Taken to the grave. An archaeozoological approach assessing the role of animals as crematory offerings in first millennium AD Britain.

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    Publication date
    2010-04-01T15:43:24Z
    Author
    Worley, Fay L.
    Supervisor
    Bond, Julie M.
    Keyword
    Anglo-Saxon Britain
    Animal bones
    Archaeology
    Cremation
    Grave goods
    Iron Age Britain
    Roman
    Taphonomy
    Crematory funerary rites
    Faunal pyre
    Archaeozoological analysis
    Romano-British funerary practice
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    Institution
    University of Bradford
    Department
    Department of Archaeological Sciences
    Awarded
    2008
    
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    Abstract
    The crematory funerary rites practiced by those living in parts of mainland Britain during the first millennium AD included burning complete or parts of animals on the pyre. This thesis highlights the potential for archaeozoological analysis of faunal pyre goods using assemblages from the first millennium AD as a dataset. Experimental study and the integration of current research from a number of disciplines is used to suggest that although pyrolysis and cremation practices fragment and distort burnt bone assemblages, careful analysis can reveal a wealth of data leading to the interpretation of various forms of pyre good. The results of the author¿s analysis of material from the sites of Brougham, Cumbria, St. Stephen¿s, Hertfordshire, Castleford, West Yorkshire and Heath Wood, Derbyshire are combined with data from other published cemeteries to suggest a series of chronological and regional continuities in the use of animals but with a distinct change at the start of the Early Medieval period. The results from Brougham are particularly significant as they alter preconceived views on the utilisation of animals in Romano-British funerary practice. Cremation burials in first millennium AD Britain are shown to include the burnt remains of predominantly domestic taxa with occasional wild species. The pyre goods are interpreted as representing food offerings, companions, amulets, gaming items and sacrifices. This thesis demonstrates that cremated animal bone should not be disregarded but rather valued as source of archaeozoological data, and a significant functional tool for interpreting past funerary behaviour and animal utilisation.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4282
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    Thesis
    Qualification name
    PhD
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