Cattle management in an Iron Age/Roman settlement in the Netherlands: Archaeozoological and stable isotope analysis.

Cattle were the predominant domestic animal in the Iron Age and Roman Netherlands, yet their management is still incompletely understood. Some aspects of cattle management, such as birth season and the provision of fodder, have received little or no attention so far. This paper is the first to inves...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:8f8a269e34de45859492ef5d171f44952021-12-02T20:17:26ZCattle management in an Iron Age/Roman settlement in the Netherlands: Archaeozoological and stable isotope analysis.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0258234https://doaj.org/article/8f8a269e34de45859492ef5d171f44952021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258234https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Cattle were the predominant domestic animal in the Iron Age and Roman Netherlands, yet their management is still incompletely understood. Some aspects of cattle management, such as birth season and the provision of fodder, have received little or no attention so far. This paper is the first to investigate these aspects for the Iron Age and Roman Netherlands, through a case study of the site of Houten-Castellum. The rural settlement of Houten-Castellum was inhabited from the Middle Iron Age to the Middle Roman period, allowing a comparison between the Iron Age and Roman period. Excavations at this site have yielded a large, well-preserved animal bone assemblage. This paper investigates cattle husbandry by using an integrated approach, combining a multi-isotope analysis (oxygen, carbon and strontium) with archaeozoological and archaeobotanical results from Houten-Castellum and comparing the results with archaeobotanical evidence for fodder and evidence for dairy use for the Iron Age and Roman Netherlands in general. While our data set is small and results must therefore be interpreted cautiously, there is convincing evidence for an extended birth season in the Middle Iron Age, as well as the use of fodder.Maaike GrootUmberto AlbarellaJana EgerJane EvansPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 10, p e0258234 (2021)
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Maaike Groot
Umberto Albarella
Jana Eger
Jane Evans
Cattle management in an Iron Age/Roman settlement in the Netherlands: Archaeozoological and stable isotope analysis.
description Cattle were the predominant domestic animal in the Iron Age and Roman Netherlands, yet their management is still incompletely understood. Some aspects of cattle management, such as birth season and the provision of fodder, have received little or no attention so far. This paper is the first to investigate these aspects for the Iron Age and Roman Netherlands, through a case study of the site of Houten-Castellum. The rural settlement of Houten-Castellum was inhabited from the Middle Iron Age to the Middle Roman period, allowing a comparison between the Iron Age and Roman period. Excavations at this site have yielded a large, well-preserved animal bone assemblage. This paper investigates cattle husbandry by using an integrated approach, combining a multi-isotope analysis (oxygen, carbon and strontium) with archaeozoological and archaeobotanical results from Houten-Castellum and comparing the results with archaeobotanical evidence for fodder and evidence for dairy use for the Iron Age and Roman Netherlands in general. While our data set is small and results must therefore be interpreted cautiously, there is convincing evidence for an extended birth season in the Middle Iron Age, as well as the use of fodder.
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author Maaike Groot
Umberto Albarella
Jana Eger
Jane Evans
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Umberto Albarella
Jana Eger
Jane Evans
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title Cattle management in an Iron Age/Roman settlement in the Netherlands: Archaeozoological and stable isotope analysis.
title_short Cattle management in an Iron Age/Roman settlement in the Netherlands: Archaeozoological and stable isotope analysis.
title_full Cattle management in an Iron Age/Roman settlement in the Netherlands: Archaeozoological and stable isotope analysis.
title_fullStr Cattle management in an Iron Age/Roman settlement in the Netherlands: Archaeozoological and stable isotope analysis.
title_full_unstemmed Cattle management in an Iron Age/Roman settlement in the Netherlands: Archaeozoological and stable isotope analysis.
title_sort cattle management in an iron age/roman settlement in the netherlands: archaeozoological and stable isotope analysis.
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