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H 276 x W 203 mm

888 pages

744 figures, 351 tables (colour throughout)

Published Apr 2020

Archaeopress Access Archaeology

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Paperback: 9781789696295

Digital: 9781789696301

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The Neglected Goat: A New Method to Assess the Role of the Goat in the English Middle Ages

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Based on a combination of morphological and biometrical analyses, this book provides a new, objective and transparent methodology to distinguish between sheep and goat post cranial bones in the archaeological record. Additionally, on the basis of the newly proposed approach, it reassesses the role of the goat in medieval England.

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Contents

1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND ;
1.2 TAXONOMY ;
1.3 METHODOLOGICAL BACKGROUND ;
1.4 THE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH GOAT: SETTING THE SCENE
;

2 STUDY OF THE MORPHOLOGICAL TRAITS AND BIOMETRY OF THE MODERN MATERIAL ;
2.1 METHODS ;
2.2 MATERIALS ;
2.3 INTER-OBSERVER ERROR AND INTRA-OBSERVER ERROR: CONSISTENCY TESTS ;
2.4 MORPHOLOGICAL RESULTS ;
2.5 BIOMETRIC RESULTS ;
2.6 DISCUSSION OF THE STUDY OF THE MODERN MATERIAL: MORPHOLOGICAL AND BIOMETRICAL APPROACH
;

3 RE-EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF THE GOAT IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND ;
3.1 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES ;
3.2 KING’S LYNN (AD 1050-1800) ;
3.3 MEDIEVAL AND POST-MEDIEVAL FLAXENGATE (C. LATE 11TH CENTURY AD; LATE 14TH - MIDDLE 16TH CENTURY AD) ;
3.4 WOOLMONGER /KINGSWELL STREET, NORTHAMPTON (C. 1000-1550 AD) ;
3.5 DISCUSSION OF THE APPLICATION OF THE NEW METHODOLOGY ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSEMBLAGES ;
3.6 REASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE OF THE GOAT IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH HUSBANDRY AND ECONOMY: A BEGINNING ;
3.7 FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS: THE WAY IS PAVED
;

4 CONCLUSIONS ;

REFERENCES ;

APPENDICES ;
APPENDIX I: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE GOAT IN THE HUMAN PAST ;
APPENDIX II: BLAND AND ALTMAN PLOTS AS INTEGRATION OF THE ICC (INTER-OBSERVER ERROR) ;
APPENDIX III: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS FOR THE MODEN SHEEP AND GOAT MATERIAL ;
APPENDIX IV: ASSUMPTIONS FOR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS (DA) AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS (PCA) ;
APPENDIX V: PCA, A BRIEF GLOSSARY ;
APPENDIX VI: DA: HOW TO USE IT TO PREDICT NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL CASES

About the Author

Lenny Salvagno graduated from the University of Parma (Italy) and obtained a PhD in zooarchaeology from the University of Sheffield (UK). She completed a two-year Post-Doc at Sheffield, focussing on changes in pig husbandry during the Late Medieval-Early Modern transition in England. She is now an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Archaeology in Sheffield and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (Germany).