Once the farming community had been established at West Stow, cattle and sheep increased at the expense of pigs, and beef and mutton may have replaced pork in the Anglo-Saxon diet. settlers in England.Analysis of the West Stow fauna indicated that pigs played an important role in the initial Anglo-Saxon settlement of eastern England. An extensive series of excavations at West Stow yielded an exceptionally well-preserved vertebrate faunal assemblage of over 180,000 bones and fragments that can inform us about the animal husbandry practices of the earliest Anglo-Saxon. West Stow is an early Anglo-Saxon settlement site located on the banks of the River Lark in eastern England, occupied between the 5th and 7th centuries A.C. The comparative analyses of results are conducted for comparison the archaeo-zoological data of other Estonian settlements and hill forts from Viking Age and Final Iron Age are used. The bones of game are few, the represented species are beaver, elk, fox, hare and bear. The percentage of cattle is approximately the same in all materials. The relative importance of pig is even more prominent in the material of II settlement, which is mixed with bone fragments of later period. The percentage of sheep/goat is somewhat smaller and the percentage of pig is greater in the material of Final Iron Age hill fort. materials of the Viking Age settlements (I and III). The sheep/goats are dominating species in the. The prevailing part of bone fragments belong to domesticated animals. Also the issues concerning the anatomical composition of bone material and the age of animals at slaughter are examined. The present paper discusses the results of archaeozoological analyses of materials collected from the settlements of Linnaaluste and from the hill fort of Keava. © Publications Scientifiques du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. However, the species seems to be the subject of some specific treatments which prove its strong establishment in Gallic farming and the particular vision people have about it: an animal which flesh is coveted, offering for gods or dead persons, even, initially, diplomatic gift and ornamental bird. Otherwise, before roman conquest, the species is never used as a symbolic animal, in Gaul, and its archaeological remains stay, for quite a long time, poorly present in Gallic sites' faunistic cortege. Thus, chicken is the less gallic bird, particularly if we consider that ancient authors do not grant importance to Gauls' chickens. As far as they are concerned, hen and cockerel (Gallus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758)), coming from the southeastern Asia, seem to arrive in Gaul only about the 6th century BC, after they travel in Greece and Italy. Indeed, gallic cockerel's imagery is linked with a latin homonymy Middle Ages have strongly used, firstly to ridicule France before French people themselves re-use it as a national symbolism. Between the gallic cockerel, modern and contemporary French symbolism, and the Gauls' cockerel, bred for more than two millennia, the difference is important and not only temporal.
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