Red deer (Cervus elaphus) skeleton from the Early Bronze Age pit at Brandýs (Czech Republic)

Kyselý, René; Pecinovská, Monika

doi:10.1007/s12520-016-0344-x

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“…As mentioned, although rarer if compared to domesticated species, the deposition of near-to-complete or complete deer skeletons is registered in the regional Late Prehistory (for a Late Bronze Age example see [122]). The burial of ritually sacrificed deer has been reported elsewhere, with several complete skeletons and body parts being known in Europe (see synthesis in [123].…”

Section: On the Many Uses Of Deer Body Partsmentioning

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“…Variables such as sex, season of killing, selected deposition of body parts or entire skeletons, and the context (types of sites and deposits) in which these practices occur have been considered relevant (e.g., [123,124]). For example, Morris [124] indicates that chambered cairns could represent a boundary between the worlds of the dead and the living.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Human–Deer Relations during Late Prehistory: The Zooarchaeological Data from Central and Southern Portugal in Perspective

Almeida,

Guinot,

Ribeiro

et al. 2024

Animals

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Human–animal relations have been a fruitful research topic worldwide. The importance of deer in hunter–gatherer societies is undeniable, with cervids being commonly found in archaeological and past artistic records, with a notable amount of information recovered in the Iberian Peninsula. This relevance continues during Late Prehistory, but the attempt to discuss cervids under broader perspectives and based on different types of data is not as common. We intend to approach human–deer relations in Central and Southern Portuguese Late Prehistory by considering the zooarchaeological records, both deer abundance in faunal spectra and their presence in “meaningful” assemblages and structured depositions, as well as the use of deer and deer body parts in other socio–cultural and ideological practices. The synthesis of available data shows that human–deer relations changed through time and space, with different abundances related to hunting depending on chronology and geography. The use of deer or their body parts as a resource of symbolic nature also varied, being included in food-sharing events, offerings, structured depositions, and graphic representations. Changeability is part of the different relationships, ontologies, and cosmogonies that humans and deer developed in the Late Prehistoric relational world.

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Section: On the Many Uses Of Deer Body Partsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: On the Many Uses Of Deer Body Partsmentioning

confidence: 99%