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

Promotor

Wim De Clercq

Fellow

Kim Aluwé

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.