The work attempts to reconstruct the evolution of economic and food exploitation of animal resources in northern Latium from the 13th to the 16th-17th centuries. The study starts from the analysis of faunal remains from recent excavations in Cencelle, Viterbo and other small towns in the area, considered together with the review of the edited and excavation data. A further step is the comparison of the faunal data with documentary sources by the territory under consideration (municipal statutes, notarial deeds, recipe books, etc.) and some iconographic sources. The data obtained were supplemented with what emerged from the morphological and functional study of pottery, food residue analyses, and paleopathological and isotopic analyses of human and animal bones. The findings point to an actual change in farming styles, with the gradual disappearance of the pig, replaced by sheep and goats during the 14th century. Taxonomic analysis of the remains revealed some characteristics peculiar to the area, such as the consumption of turtles, horse meat and dulcicolous bivalves, not as widespread in other contexts. Hunting and fishing play an absolutely marginal role in food supply and consumption strategies, and the concentration of fish or wild mammals, when present, does not seem to reflect a particular social status of the users. Finally, the taphonomic study compared to the slaughter rubrics of the statutes helped to detail how carcasses were handled, how waste was disposed of, and what instrumentation was used.
Il lavoro tenta di ricostruire l’evoluzione delle dinamiche di sfruttamento economico e alimentare delle risorse animali nel Lazio settentrionale, dal XIII al XVI-XVII secolo. Lo studio prende le mosse dall’analisi di un consistente nucleo di reperti faunistici inediti, provenienti dai recenti scavi di Cencelle, di Viterbo e di alcuni altri piccoli centri del territorio, considerati assieme alla revisione dell’edito e ai dati di scavo. Un ulteriore passaggio è costituito dal raffronto dei dati faunistici con quanto emerso dallo spoglio di diverse fonti documentarie inerenti al territorio in esame (statuti comunali, atti notarili, ricettari, ecc.) e di alcune fonti iconografiche. I dati ottenuti sono stati integrati con quanto emerso dallo studio morfologico e funzionale delle forme ceramiche, dalle analisi dei residui alimentari, dalle analisi paleopatologiche e isotopiche sui resti umani e animali. Le conclusioni evidenziano un effettivo cambiamento negli stili di allevamento, con la graduale scomparsa del maiale, rimpiazzato dagli ovicaprini nel corso del XIV secolo. L’analisi tassonomica dei resti ha permesso di evidenziare alcune caratteristiche peculiari dell’area, come il consumo delle tartarughe, delle carne equina e dei bivalvi dulcicoli, non altrettanto diffuso in altri contesti. La caccia e la pesca rivestono un ruolo assolutamente marginale rispetto alle strategie di approvvigionamento e di consumo alimentare e la concentrazione di pesci o di mammiferi selvatici, quando presente, non sembra riflettere un particolare status sociale dei fruitori. Infine, lo studio tafonomico raffrontato alle rubriche di macellazione degli statuti, ha aiutato a dettagliare le modalità di trattamento delle carcasse, lo smaltimento dei rifiuti e lo strumentario utilizzato.
Alimentazione ed economia animale nell’alto Lazio medievale. Un approccio archeozoologico / Brancazi, Luca. - (2023).
Alimentazione ed economia animale nell’alto Lazio medievale. Un approccio archeozoologico
BRANCAZI, LUCA
01/01/2023
Abstract
The work attempts to reconstruct the evolution of economic and food exploitation of animal resources in northern Latium from the 13th to the 16th-17th centuries. The study starts from the analysis of faunal remains from recent excavations in Cencelle, Viterbo and other small towns in the area, considered together with the review of the edited and excavation data. A further step is the comparison of the faunal data with documentary sources by the territory under consideration (municipal statutes, notarial deeds, recipe books, etc.) and some iconographic sources. The data obtained were supplemented with what emerged from the morphological and functional study of pottery, food residue analyses, and paleopathological and isotopic analyses of human and animal bones. The findings point to an actual change in farming styles, with the gradual disappearance of the pig, replaced by sheep and goats during the 14th century. Taxonomic analysis of the remains revealed some characteristics peculiar to the area, such as the consumption of turtles, horse meat and dulcicolous bivalves, not as widespread in other contexts. Hunting and fishing play an absolutely marginal role in food supply and consumption strategies, and the concentration of fish or wild mammals, when present, does not seem to reflect a particular social status of the users. Finally, the taphonomic study compared to the slaughter rubrics of the statutes helped to detail how carcasses were handled, how waste was disposed of, and what instrumentation was used.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


