Placing Animals in the Neolithic by Marciniak Arkadiusz;

Author:Marciniak, Arkadiusz;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

−0,1380

0,4836

−0,2315

0,2763

sheep/goat

0,0972

0,6512

Feature 2

Cattle

−0,3236

0,0995

−0,1125

0,5686

−0,2543

0,2303

sheep/goat

−0,0852

0,6921

The above results imply that the consumption of Early Neolithic farmers from Kujavia was different from the situation today. Alternatively, they may imply a peculiar method of refuse disposal. Moreover, they indicate that marrow was commonly consumed. A significant positive correlation occurred in eight out of 14 units where the correlation for sheep/goats was calculated. In some features, the correlation coefficients for the MGUI and the MI are different for cattle and sheep/goat bones deposited in the same feature. Where the value of this coefficient for the MI is positive and significant for sheep/goats, it is not significant for cattle, and this difference is usually considerable (Tables 6.11 and 6.12). Such a situation occurs also at Miechowice, feature 2. Similar differences, often substantial, characterise deposition of cattle versus sheep/goat bones (as measured by values of both coefficients) in subsequent layers of deep features. This fully confirms earlier conclusions based on results of correlation between density values and body part representation, namely that different depositional practices were at work at these settlements. These results seem to suggest that one of the significant factors may be the different consumption of these two species. It is also possible that both of these factors affected the bone frequency observed in particular units of analysis.

Table 6.11 Łojewo, site 35. Spearman coefficient correlation between the Modified General Utility Index of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) and caribou (Rangifer torandus) and distribution of anatomical parts of cattle as well as between the Modified General Utility Index of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) and distribution of anatomical parts of sheep/goat

Unit of analysis

Species

Spearman

p-value

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