Animals and Archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia

Zooarchaeological Studies in Novgorod and its Region

Mark Brisbane, Mark Maltby

• Publisher: Oxbow Books
• Year: 2020
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789254204
• Subtopic: European Medieval History
• Index: Social Sciences

This is the third book on material studies in this series on medieval Novgorod and its territory, and deals with a substantial body of animal bones that has been recovered over the last decade. The zooarchaeological evidence is discussed by the editor and a number of other British and Russian specialists looking at the remains of mammals, birds and fish. Topics discussed include diet, butchery practices, the exploitation of fur and skins, mortality patterns of mammals, and metrical analyses of a wide range of species. Detailed data sets are provided to enable the reader to make comparisons with their own research, but the book is also suitable for those with a more general interest in medieval Russian archaeology.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Book Title
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Dedication
• Russian Summary: Русское Резюме
• 1 The INTAS projects and the archaeological background to the zooarchaeological studies : Mark Brisbane
• 2 The history of the project: Retrieval, recording, analysis and dissemination : Mark Maltby
• 3 The exploitation of domestic mammals at the 9th- and 10th-century sites in the hinterland of Novgorod : Mark Maltby, Sheila Hamilton-Dyer, Ellen Hambleton and Mikhail Sablin
• 4. The exploitation of domestic mammals in Novgorod: The evidence from Troitsky IX, X and XI and other sites in Novgorod : Mark Maltby with Sheila Hamilton-Dyer, Ellen Hambleton and Andrei V. Zinoviev
• 5. Carcass processing of domestic mammals from Novgorod and sites in its immediate hinterland : Mark Maltby
• 6. Metrical analyses of domestic mammal bones from Novgorod and sites in its immediate hinterland : Mark Maltby
• 7. The exploitation of wild mammals in Novgorod and sites in its immediate hinterland : Mark Maltby with Sheila Hamilton-Dyer, Andrei V. Zinoviev and Mikhail Sablin
• 8. Archaeozoological materials from Minino and changes in populations in utilized mammals from the north of European Russia from the Mesolithic to the Medieval period : Olga Krylovich and Arkady Savinetsky
• 9. Bird bones from Novgorod and sites in its immediate hinterland : Sheila Hamilton-Dyer and Mark Maltby with Mikhail Sablin and Andrei V. Zinoviev
• 10. Fish bones from Novgorod, sites in its immediate hinterland and Minino : Sheila Hamilton-Dyer with Mark Maltby, Mikhail Sablin and Andrei V. Zinoviev
• 11. Humans and animals in northern medieval Russia : Mark Maltby
• References
• Back Cover