Feeding Medieval Towns: The Zooarchaeological Evidence

Summary

This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Provisioning played a critical role in the establishment of early medieval towns in northwestern Europe from the eighth through the tenth centuries CE. Zooarchaeology can reveal how the inhabitants of early medieval towns obtained meat and other animal products. Recent zooarchaeological research has revealed how the sites of Ipswich (seventh–twelfth centuries CE) and Antwerp (eighth–tenth centuries CE) obtained animal products. This paper will compare the zooarchaeological evidence from early medieval Ipswich (UK) and Antwerp (BE) with the evidence for urban provisioning at other eighth- to tenth-century towns in northwestern Europe.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 37841.0