Eating habits Reconstruction and use of animals in the Old Prague town in the Middle Ages through its own analysis of a set archaeoyoological animal bones from Pařížská ulice

Annotation Archaeological research in the street Pařížská 68 provided archaeozoological assemblages, which consists of 773 remains of bones, teeth and their fragments. Collection is originated from two basements and it is dated to three horizonts: 12th. ? 14th. century. Economic mammals of diffrent age ranges were demonstrated through the analyses. These data, along with anatomy and butchering traces on the bones indicated, that the analysed place was conected with the breeding of livestock and poultry. The bones of wild mammals was also slightly detected. Numerous fragments of horns and metapodials from cattle, suggest a possible production activities. Urban site represented an independent economical and production unit of small scale. The presence of Jewish ethnicity based on osteological data was confirmed nor refuted