Human-animal interactions at a seventeenth-century English fishery in Newfoundland
Author(s): Eric D. Tourigny
Year: 2013
Summary
The community of Ferryland represents the second permanent English settlement on the island of Newfoundland. Commissioned in 1620 by Sir George Calvert, later the first Lord Baltimore, the fishery played an important role as a seat of power on the island throughout the seventeenth century. The recovery of thousands of well preserved animal bones associated with the Mansion House, a building that served as the Calvert family home, and later the home of Newfoundland’s first governor, provides the unique opportunity to explore human-animal relationships between the community’s elite residents and the fauna to which they had access. This paper examines this relationship through a discussion of consumption patterns, provisioning strategies and animal husbandry practices based on zooarchaeological and historical evidence.
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Human-animal interactions at a seventeenth-century English fishery in Newfoundland. Eric D. Tourigny. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428226)
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Keywords
General
Fishery
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Newfoundland
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Zooarchaeology
Geographic Keywords
Canada
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North America
Temporal Keywords
1620-1696
Spatial Coverage
min long: -141.003; min lat: 41.684 ; max long: -52.617; max lat: 83.113 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 395