Feasting with the Dead: Preliminary Analysis of Faunal Remains at the Put Dragulina Roman Cemetery

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Put Dragulina, a Roman cemetery site dating between 100 AD and 300 AD, was excavated as part of rescue projects during 2011 and 2017 in Trogir, Croatia. At least 84 individual graves were excavated with associated burial goods. Along with the recovery of human remains, over 250 fragments of animal bone were recovered. This poster presents the identification and analysis of ovicaprines, cattle, and equid remains as possible remnants of feasting activities associated with mortuary practices based on postmortem alterations.The presence of cut marks on the distal and proximal portion of the bones suggest that the remains were processed and consumed. In association with the human burials, it is suggested that the postmortem alterations, alongside the presence of fragmented burned bone, are indicators that mortuary feasting processes were occurring at this Roman cemetery site.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24717