In the course of excavations at the arena of the abandoned Viminacium amphitheatre (Serbia), within the broader area of the late Roman graveyard, a deposit has been discovered of a multiple dog burial that dates back to the 2nd half of the 4th century AD. Archaeozoological and taphonomic studies of dog remains have revealed that at least 13 partial dog carcasses of both puppies and adult dogs of different phenotypes had been jointly buried, after possible roasting and carcass processing. By corroborating archaeological, archaeozoological, ancient text data, as well as similar instances of dog burials from the Roman world, a number of potential interpretations of the deposit have been arrived at, from ritual sacrifices to chthonic d...
This volume includes a number of papers that were originally presented at the conference Roman Anima...
In this paper we present a recently discovered enigmatic building complex in the ancient Paphos necr...
Les premiers siècles de notre ère ont légué de nombreux témoignages de pratiques dites « magiques »,...
Animal sacrifice in the Roman world was considered to be a form of communication with the divine sph...
Faunal remains in graves raise questions on the use of animals in funerary ritual. Based on a first ...
International audienceResearches conducted for thirty years on hundreds of sites from the Iron Age r...
The aim of this paper is to examine different ritual uses of dogs in Italy from the Iron Age to the ...
Dog burials have been found in Egypt dating as far back as the Badarian culture. During the Predynas...
International audienceAncient texts indicate that animals are involved in many religious ceremonies ...
International audienceThe skeletons, partial skeletons and isolated bones of 200 dogs, 42 horses, ei...
Actes des XXXIe Rencontres internationales d'Archéologie et d'Histoire d'AntibesInternational audien...
Faunal analyses from the Roman city and legionary fortress - Viminacium and its adjacent areas revea...
Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the Zooarchaeology of the Roman Period Working Group, Basel, 1st-4...
L’actualité nous amène souvent à regarder les choses à travers le filtre du passé et à revisiter l’h...
This paper addresses the question of animal remains (isolated bones and complete skeletons) discover...
This volume includes a number of papers that were originally presented at the conference Roman Anima...
In this paper we present a recently discovered enigmatic building complex in the ancient Paphos necr...
Les premiers siècles de notre ère ont légué de nombreux témoignages de pratiques dites « magiques »,...
Animal sacrifice in the Roman world was considered to be a form of communication with the divine sph...
Faunal remains in graves raise questions on the use of animals in funerary ritual. Based on a first ...
International audienceResearches conducted for thirty years on hundreds of sites from the Iron Age r...
The aim of this paper is to examine different ritual uses of dogs in Italy from the Iron Age to the ...
Dog burials have been found in Egypt dating as far back as the Badarian culture. During the Predynas...
International audienceAncient texts indicate that animals are involved in many religious ceremonies ...
International audienceThe skeletons, partial skeletons and isolated bones of 200 dogs, 42 horses, ei...
Actes des XXXIe Rencontres internationales d'Archéologie et d'Histoire d'AntibesInternational audien...
Faunal analyses from the Roman city and legionary fortress - Viminacium and its adjacent areas revea...
Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the Zooarchaeology of the Roman Period Working Group, Basel, 1st-4...
L’actualité nous amène souvent à regarder les choses à travers le filtre du passé et à revisiter l’h...
This paper addresses the question of animal remains (isolated bones and complete skeletons) discover...
This volume includes a number of papers that were originally presented at the conference Roman Anima...
In this paper we present a recently discovered enigmatic building complex in the ancient Paphos necr...
Les premiers siècles de notre ère ont légué de nombreux témoignages de pratiques dites « magiques »,...