Food taboos in medieval Iberia: the zooarchaeology of socio-cultural differences

Abstract

Anthropozoologica est une revue en flux continu publiée par les Publications scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, avec le soutien du CNRS.

Halal and Makruk: Muslim archaeological fish assemblages as cultural identifiers in the Iberian Middle Ages?

“…The scarce archaeozoological literature on the use of animal remains as a tool for differentiating assemblages of the three main religions (e.g., Grau-Sologestoa, 2017, 2023Morales-Muñiz et al, 2011;Valenzuela-Lamas et al, 2014) groups all Muslims or all Jewish deposits as a single identity when in fact in the Iberian Middle Ages, each of these cultural groups was far more diversified than generally considered. Indeed, in addition to the better-known socioeconomic factors considered by some authors (Grau-Sologestoa, 2017), an array of ethnical groups within a territory under the same religious rule may have well impacted foodstuffs' choice.…”