Published: 22023-12-27 — Updated on 2023-12-27

Animals in the life of the inhabitants of the early medieval stronghold in Kalisz- -Zawodzie in light of the results of earlier and current archaeozoological research

Joanna Piątkowska-Małecka
Archeologia Polski
Section: Studies
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/APol68.2023.009

Abstract

The author presents the results of an archaeozoological examination of post-consumption animal bone remains from the early medieval assemblage discovered in the courtyard of the Kalisz-Zawodzie stronghold. The findings, supplemented with the results of earlier research from the 1950s/1960s, give ground for a reconstruction of meat consumption and the animal economy in the stronghold during its heyday from the mid-11th c. through the 12th. Beef and pork predominated
in the inhabitants’ diet, supplemented with sheep and goat meat, and occasionally also poultry (chickens and perhaps geese) and game. Deer, roe deer and boar were hunted, as well as fur-bearing animals like hare and squirrel. The bred species supplied meat and fat for consumption purposes, but were also kept for milk and wool, and as beasts of burden.

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Poland, Kalisz-Zawodzie, early Middle Ages, breeding, hunting, mammals, birds

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Piątkowska-Małecka, J. (2023). Animals in the life of the inhabitants of the early medieval stronghold in Kalisz- -Zawodzie in light of the results of earlier and current archaeozoological research. Archeologia Polski, 68, 251–284. https://doi.org/10.23858/APol68.2023.009

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