A5048210696- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2024
University of California, Santa Cruz
2024
This paper reports a high-resolution isotopic study of medieval horse mobility, revealing their origins and in-life mobility both regionally internationally. The animals were found in an unusual cemetery site within the City Westminster, London, England. Enamel strontium, oxygen, carbon isotope analysis 15 individuals provides information about likely place birth, diet, during first approximately 5 years life. Results show that at least seven horses originated outside Britain relatively cold...
SUMMARYSUMMARYExcavations at two adjacent sites in Elverton Street, Westminster, uncovered evidence for an extensive late medieval and Tudor horse burial ground. In all 197 pits were found cut into natural sand. Thirty-one contained the articulated skeletal remains of dismembered horses; seventy-six individuals identified from twenty-seven (material four was not quantified). Four held fully skeletons dogs. Another twenty-one produced a few disarticulated animal bones. The remaining empty;...