Animals at Burgaz in the classical period from the evidence of faunal remains

Download

index.pdf

Date

2004

Author

Aydın, Mahmut

Metadata

Show full item record

Item Usage Stats

251
views

100
downloads

For this thesis the animal bones collected from the archaeological excavations at the ancient site of Burgaz have been analyzed for the study of animal exploitation, human diet, social differentiation and the environment of Burgaz and Datça during the Classical Period. Comparison of the results with evidence from other sites to determine the extent to which there might have been local trends in animal husbandry. Because this kind of a research is not common among archaeologists specialising in the classical period the methodology and each process of the laboratory work has been set out. Burgaz/Datça is a coastal settlement but sea products do not have an important place in the human diet of the Datça Burgaz inhabitants. After analysis of the Burgaz bones it was determined that domestic cattle, sheep/goat, pig, horse, donkey and dog were present alongside wild goat, wild pig, fallow deer, red deer, roe deer, badger and birds as well as fish and shellfish from the sea. More than half of the bones that were identified, 220 of 430, come from floor filling levels beneath floors. It was understood that these bones were in filling materials that were brought from dump site(s). Among these bones were some worked cattle bones which have close parallels with Roman period finds at Sagalassos. Because of most of identified bones come from filling levels beneath floors it was not possible to reach definite conclusions about social hierarchy at ancient Burgaz. Sheep/goat and cattle were kept for their secondary products, such as milk, wool and power. They were slaughtered in their old age by experienced people and played an important place in diet of the Burgaz inhabitants. Pigs, on the other hand, were slaughtered when young. From the wild species found in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods it can be said that the Datça environment was diverse enough to accommodate a range

Subject Keywords

Collectors and collecting.

URI

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605502/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/14492

Collections

Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Animal bones studies on Byzantine city of Amorium Silibolatlaz, Derya; Pişkin, Evangelia; Department of Settlement Archaeology (2009) The aim of this study is to identify the preferred animal species at Byzantine city of Amorium and accordingly to find the spatial relationship between context and the purpose of animal use such as dietary habits, workshop activities, possible socioeconomic differentiation and subsistence economy as well as the ecology of Amorium environment. The animal bones were examined in order to determine their species. The identified animal bones were assessed by calculating the frequencies of the each species. Thus,...
Animal figurines during the early bronze age of Anatolia: the case of Koçumbeli Ayten, Ebru Gizem; Atakuman, Çiğdem; Department of Settlement Archaeology (2019) This thesis aims to understand the use of animal figurines at the Early Bronze Age site of Koçumbeli in social context. In order to achieve this aim, 20 animal figurines from Koçumbeli have been examined in terms of their thematic representations, raw materials, production technique, color, breakage as well as their contexts. Thematic evaluations focus on the animals depicted and their sex and age, while the contextual evaluations focus on the spatiality of animal figurines in relation to domestic and buria...
Educational function of art museums : two case studies from Turkey Tan, Ceyda Başak; Erzen, Jale Adile; Department of History of Architecture (2007) This thesis analyzes the educational function of art museums, how education in art museums evolved and how an art museum can conduct an educational mission. The concept of the material collections as the educative origin of art museums will be discussed alongside the history of collections in Europe. In addition to the concept of collection, the importance of educational programmes of art museums will be highlighted. Having derived a general notion of the educational function of art museums, the thesis will...
Educational function of art museums: two case studies from Turkey Tan, Ceyda Başak; Erzen, Jale Adile; Department of History of Architecture (2007) This thesis analyzes the educational function of art museums, how education in art museums evolved and how an art museum can conduct an educational mission. The concept of the material collections as the educative origin of art museums will be discussed alongside the history of collections in Europe. In addition to the concept of collection, the importance of educational programmes of art museums will be highlighted. Having derived a general notion of the educational function of art museums, the thesis will...
The ethnobotany of wild food plant use in the Konya Basin: a quantitative and ethnoarchaeological approach Tsetsekos, Aylan Erkal; Doğan, Musa; Department of Archaeometry (2006) In this ethnobotanical study, an ethnoarchaeological approach was adopted for the archaeological implications of the importance of wild food plants and their dietary uses in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods in Central Anatolia by exploring the dietary uses of these plants by the modern villagers of Konya Basin. The study was based on the indigenous knowledge of the modern villagers of Konya of managing wild food plant resource in their surroundings for the dietary uses. This knowledge was explored thr...

Citation Formats

M. Aydın, “Animals at Burgaz in the classical period from the evidence of faunal remains,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2004.