Ritual context of animal bone deposits from the Roman Iron Age settlement at Magnice, SW Poland
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2011
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Institute of Archaeology, University of Wrocław
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Despite numerous ideas and tools applied, including presumptions that in many instances, ritual or any action does not affect any perceptible change of material culture and that the latter does not reflect socio-cultural phenomena in a direct and objective way, there are two main criteria of distinguishing remains of ritual activities: unusuality of a given find and/or its context.the paper presents the initial results of studies on animal bone deposits recorded in the roman period settlement at Magnice near Wrocław which in my opinion are remains of rituals performed within the settlement area and be-ing thus an integral part of its inhabitants’ everyday life. for the sake of the study I applied a functional definition of ritual which I understand as a process including its performative and communicative aspects regarded as symbolical-expressive behaviour mode in communicating and consolidating certain social relations.I applied the criteria of structured deposits proposed by l. K. horwitz and t. Węgrzynowicz including: the pres-ence of whole, unbutchered animals or articulated portions of animals, the presence of very young or very old animals, a selection of specific parts, an abundance of one sex and/or a particular taxon, the presence of rare taxa, association with human remains and/or grave goods.
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J. Baron 2001. Ritual context of animal bone deposits from the Roman Iron Age settlement at Magnice, SW Poland, (w:) J. Baron, B. Kufel-Diakowska (red.) Written in Bones. Studies on technological and social contexts of past faunal skeletal remains, s. 285-294