Imports and isotopes: a modern baseline study for interpreting Iron Age and Roman trade in fallow deer antlersTools Osborne, David (2017) Imports and isotopes: a modern baseline study for interpreting Iron Age and Roman trade in fallow deer antlers. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 27 (1). 10/1-10/15. ISSN 2041-9015 Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: http://www.pia-journal.co.uk/articles/10.5334/pia-482/
AbstractThe European Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) became extinct in the British Isles and most of continental Europe at the time of the Last Glacial Maximum, with the species becoming restricted to an Anatolian refugium (Masseti et al. 2008). Human-mediated reintroductions resulted in fallow populations in Rhodes, Sicily, Mallorca, Iberia and other parts of western Europe (Sykes et al. 2013). Eventually, the species was brought to Britain by the Romans during the 1st century AD, with a breeding population being established at Fishbourne Roman Palace (Sykes et al. 2011). The human influence on the present-day distribution of the species makes it particularly interesting from a zooarchaeological perspective.
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