On the Difficulty of Detecting Seasonal Slaughtering of Sheep

T. P. O'Connor

Environmental Archaeology, 1998, vol. 3, issue 1, 5-11

Abstract: This paper questions whether the seasonal slaughtering of sheep can be identified in archaeological data from temperate Europe. Earlier work is reviewed, and the ethnohistorical record examined to determine the factors which have influenced seasonality of killing, with the aim of deciding what patterns of seasonal killing might potentially be reflected in the archaeological data. A consideration of the resolution of age-attribution methods shows whether the potential evidence can actually be discerned in archaeological material, and with what precision. Finally, some published data are reconsidered.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1179/env.1998.3.1.5

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