Project

Transformations in animal husbandry and consumption patterns at the fringes of the Roman Empire. A zooarchaeological study of selected Roman sites in the civitas Menapiorum and Nerviorum (1st century BC- 4th century AD).

Code
01SF1016
Looptijd
01-10-2016 → 11-10-2016
Financiering
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Onderzoeksdisciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Animal biology
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Archaeology
    • History
    • Theory and methodology of archaeology
    • Other history and archaeology
  • Social sciences
    • Economic history
Trefwoorden
Archeozoölogie Gallo-Romeins romanisatie
 
Projectomschrijving
 

This research is a zooarchaeological study executed on animal remains from Gallo-Roman sites with diverse socio-economic functions (rural, administrative, military) spread over multiple landscape components in Flanders. Through interdisciplinary research patterns in the relationship between food and social status and how the absorption in the Roman empire has influenced animal husbandry in farthest corners of the Imperium.