zooarchaeology, fallow deer, ritual, cats (Other Keyword)
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One Island, Two Stories: Tradition, Ritual and Identity in Barbuda, West Indies (2016)
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Barbuda, the small sister island to Antigua, provides a unique geographically bound island context for the study of human-environmental interactions over the last 6000 years. Today, Barbuda’s national animal is the fallow deer, Dama dama dama, a species that is native to a small area of Anatolia but that has been transported around the world by people. According to historical accounts, fallow deer were imported to Barbuda, from England, by the Codrington family, the island’s primary leaseholders...