This volume comprises the papers presented at the 6th Meeting of the ICAZ Bird Working Group, held in August 2008 in Groningen, the Netherlands. The subjects of the contributions range from New Zealand, South America and the Near East to Europe and vary in time from the Pleistocene up to the late 19th century. Themes discussed are the palaeozoogeography of birds, the role of birds in subsistence, ritual and symbolism, bird hunting techniques and histological studies of bird bones. The geographical, temporal and thematic variation underlines the importance of ornito-archaeozoology for all aspects of archaeology.
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"All in all, the book is well-printed and well-illustrated including some very beautiful color paintings and photographs. The collected papers are very diverse. Ranging from articles pursuing one isolated research question like the one by Prummel & Drenth trying to identify the bird bone which made imprints on two Tureen-amphorae to large comparative synthetic studies including multiple sites of the e.g., subsistence strategies of northern and southern hemisphere maritime hunter-gatherers by Lefèvre. The book certainly contributes with new insight into a broad specter of avian archaeozoological research fields and merits to be widely distributed to all that take an interest in birds and past human societies and how they interrelated." Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen in Prähistorische Zeitschrift, volume 1/2012, pp. 216-221
Contents
Part I: Birds and the provision of food
1 J. Studer
To eat or not to eat? A dilemma concerning domestic pigeon (Columba livia f. domestica) from the Early Islamic Period at Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi, Syria 13
2 E. Corona-M.
Small domestic fowl in a Roman site from Spain (Veranes, Asturias) 23
3 L. Bejenaru, S. M. Stanc & F. C. Oleniuc
Domestic birds in the medieval settlements on the territory of Romania 29
4 E. Gál, S. M. Stanc & L. Bejenaru
Bird remains from the 10th-11th century settlement of Oltina (Dobruja, Romania) 37
5 M. Moreno-García & C. Detry
The dietary role of hens, chickens and eggs among a 17th-century monastic order: the Clarisse of Santa Clara-a-Velha, Coimbra (Portugal) 45
6 P. Baker
Procurement, presentation and consumption of domestic and wildfowl at Windsor Castle, England in the 12th-14th c. 57
7 S. Thys & W. Van Neer
Bird remains from Late Medieval and Postmedieval sites in Brussels, Belgium 71
8 J. Best & J. Mulville
The fowling economies of the Shiant Isles, Outer Hebrides: resource exploitation in a marginal environment 87
9 M.A. Giardina
Human exploitation of Rheidae in North Patagonia, Argentina (South America) 97
10 I. Cartajena, M. Núñez & L. Núñez
Phoenicopteridae exploitation in the Salar de Atacama Basin (3.000-2.200 BP), Northern Chile 103
11 C. Lefèvre
Birds in maritime hunter-gatherers subsistence: case studies from Southern Patagonia and the Aleutian Islands 117
12 A.M. Tivoli
Temporal trends in avifaunal resource management by prehistoric sea nomads from the Beagle Channel region (Southern South America) 131
13 S. Hawkins, W. Gumbley & M. Campbell
Late 19th century colonial bird exploitation at Rutland Street, Wanganui, New Zealand 141
Part II: Bird hunting techniques
14 L.H. van Wijngaarden-Bakker
The eagle owl, Bubo bubo, predator or decoy 153
15 J.T. Zeiler
Hunting the hunters: owls and birds of prey as part of the falconers' game bag 163
16 E. Esser
Hunting gulls for feathers 169
Part III: Birds in rituals and symbolism
17 D. Serjeantson
Ravens and crows in Iron Age Britain: the Danebury corvids reconsidered 175
18 J. M. Grimm
A bird for all occasions: the use of birds at the Romano-British sanctuary of Springhead, Kent (UK) 187
19 W. Prummel & E. Drenth
Two tureen-amphorae of the TRB West Group decorated with the caput femoris of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) 197
Part IV: Paleontology and zoogeography of birds
20 M. Gala & A. Tagliacozzo
The avifauna from Late Glacial archaeological sites in Italy: a tentative synthesis 205
21 V. Laroulandie
Alpine chough Pyrrhocorax graculus from Pleistocene sites between Pyrenees and Alps: natural versus cultural assemblages 219
22 E. Campmas, V. Laroulandie, P. Michel, F.Amani, R. Nespoulet & A. El Hajraoui Mohammed
A great auk (Pinguinus impennis) in North Africa: discovery of a bone remain in a Neolithic layer of El Harhoura 2 Cave (Temara, Morocco) 233
23 M. Groot, A. Ervynck & F. Pigière
Vagrant vultures: archaeological evidence for the cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) in the Low Countries 241
Part V: Miscellaneous
24 M. Eda, S. Yashima, S. Kusuhara & T. Inoué
Histological analysis of medullary bones from archaeological sites in Japan 255
25 M. Moreno-García & C. Pimenta
Beyond chicken: avian biodiversity in a Portuguese late medieval urban site 261
26 E. Corona-M.
Some notes on the history of Archaeornithology 277
