Evidence for Romano-British bear skinning from Westward House, Fishbourne, West Sussex

Sussex Archaeological Collections, 155, 67-71 : Recent re-analysis of the zooarchaeological assemblage from Westward House, near Fishbourne Roman Palace, has identified butchered brown bear (Ursus arctos) remains. Cut marks across the first phalanx indicate that the animal had been skinned. This fin...

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Main Author: Busby, Lewis
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Published: Archaeology Data Service 2019
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Ursus arctos
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spelling ftdatacite:10.5284/1086809 2023-05-15T18:41:52+02:00 Evidence for Romano-British bear skinning from Westward House, Fishbourne, West Sussex Busby, Lewis 2019 https://dx.doi.org/10.5284/1086809 https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/details.xhtml?recordId=3213803 en eng Archaeology Data Service https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=1000229 ADS Terms and Conditions of reuse apply http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/advice/termsOfUseAndAccess Text Article article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5284/1086809 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Sussex Archaeological Collections, 155, 67-71 : Recent re-analysis of the zooarchaeological assemblage from Westward House, near Fishbourne Roman Palace, has identified butchered brown bear (Ursus arctos) remains. Cut marks across the first phalanx indicate that the animal had been skinned. This finding is significant, as literary and zooarchaeological evidence for brown bear in the Roman period indicates that the animal was usually exploited for entertainment purposes; evidence for the skinning of the animal is rare. Text Ursus arctos DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology)
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description Sussex Archaeological Collections, 155, 67-71 : Recent re-analysis of the zooarchaeological assemblage from Westward House, near Fishbourne Roman Palace, has identified butchered brown bear (Ursus arctos) remains. Cut marks across the first phalanx indicate that the animal had been skinned. This finding is significant, as literary and zooarchaeological evidence for brown bear in the Roman period indicates that the animal was usually exploited for entertainment purposes; evidence for the skinning of the animal is rare.
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