Bird remains of Medieval and Post-Medieval coastal sites at the Southern Baltic Sea, Poland. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, 45 (special issue

Abstract. Rescue excavations in Gdañsk and Koobrzeg starting in the early 1990’s pro-vided new hand collected bird remains. The present paper deals with the results of bird re-mains analyses of three sites from Gdañsk (12th-18th century) and one site from Koobrzeg (10th-12th century). The most frequ...

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Main Authors: Daniel Makowiecki, Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2002
Subjects:
Key words
Birds
Medieval
Post-medieval
Poland
morphology
environment
White-tailed eagle
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.567.7380
http://www.isez.pan.krakow.pl/journals/azc_v/pdf/45/05.pdf
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Summary:Abstract. Rescue excavations in Gdañsk and Koobrzeg starting in the early 1990’s pro-vided new hand collected bird remains. The present paper deals with the results of bird re-mains analyses of three sites from Gdañsk (12th-18th century) and one site from Koobrzeg (10th-12th century). The most frequent bird species was domestic fowl, fol-lowed by goose, and ducks both in Gdañsk and Koobrzeg. The list of wild species con-tains White-tailed Eagle, Crane and Capercaillie most frequently. Introduced species are documented from Gdañsk in the form of one bone of peafowl and several turkey remains. The Gdañsk material exhibits a decrease in the relative frequency of domestic fowl and an increase in the relative frequency of goose over time, reflecting a gradual increase in goose breeding starting in Late Medieval time. A metric analyses showed a general in-crease in body size of domestic fowl over time.

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