L’exploitation des carcasses d’équidés à Troyes (Aube) au XIIe siècle

Sex in the city: Uncovering sex-specific management of equine resources from prehistoric times to the Modern Period in France

“…These accumulations are particularly illustrative of the animals participating to the city life and only consist of adult, often old, animals (Lepetz et al, 2013). Carcass recycling for bones, skins and tendons was particularly well organized and effective from the Middle Age, and comprised all kinds of animals, including reform animals displaying abundant skeletal pathologies characteristic of particularly hard work conditions (Barme and Clavel, 2015;Deborde and Bandelli, 2017). It is likely that living in such difficult conditions would have compromised the female fitness.…”