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The Neglected Goat: A New Method to Assess the Role of the Goat in the English Middle Ages (Paperback)
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The Neglected Goat: A New Method to Assess the Role of the Goat in the English Middle Ages (Paperback)
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Distinguishing between the bones of sheep and goats is a notorious
challenge in zooarchaeology. Several methods have been proposed to
facilitate this task, largely based on macro-morphological traits.
This approach, which is routinely adopted by zooarchaeologists,
although still valuable, has also been shown to have limitations:
morphological discriminant traits can differ in different sheep/
goat populations and a correct identification is highly dependent
upon experience, as well as the availability of appropriate
reference collections and the degree to which a researcher is
prepared to 'risk' an identification. The Neglected Goat provides a
new, more objective and transparent methodology, based on a
combination of morphological and biometrical analyses, to
distinguish between sheep and goat post cranial bones.
Additionally, on the basis of the newly proposed approach, it
reassesses the role of the goat in medieval England. There are
several historical and archaeological questions concerning the role
of this animal that have so far remained unanswered: why is the
goat commonly recorded in the Domesday Book, when it appears to be
so scarce in the contemporary archaeological record? Is the goat
under-represented in the archaeological record or over-represented
in the Domesday Book? Why is this animal, when identified in
English medieval animal bone assemblages, almost exclusively
represented by horncores? Through the investigation of a number of
English sheep and goat medieval assemblages, this study sheds light
on these questions, and suggests that the goat was indeed rarer
than the Domesday Book suggests.
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