Grau-Sologestoa, Idoia
Deschler-Erb, Sabine
2021-04-21
<p>The site of Heumarkt (FB96.13) is located in the city center of Cologne, in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany.</p>
<p>This database contains the zooarchaeological information of the inventory of the faunal materials recovered at the site (mainly from fills of sunken featured structures and dark-coloured layers), all hand-collected. The remains were recorded using Ossobook.</p>
<p>There were almost 8000 fragments, of which we calculated approximately 3200 MNE (Minimum Number of Elements). The recorded data are: taxon, skeletal element, taphonomy (butchery marks, overal preservation, colour, etc.), and biometrical data. The majority of the remains are dated to the Merovingian (5th-7th c.), Carolingian (8th-9th c.), and Ottonian (end 9th-10th c.) periods. The assemblage is predominated by pig, followed by cattle, and with an increasing presence of sheep/goat over time. Other identified species are: equids, cat, dog, aurochs, red deer, roe deer, wolf?, fox, beaver, Anser sp., chicken, eel, common barbel, Percidae, Salmo sp., Cyprinidae and Bivalvia.</p>
<p>We would like to thank Thomas Höltken, from the Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln, and Eckhard Deschler-Erb, from the University of Cologne, for their collaboration.</p>
<p>The faunal remains from Heumarkt were subject to previous analyses by H. Berke and J. Kokabi. These are the references for these works:</p>
<p>Berke, H. 1997. Haustiere, Handwerker und Händler, vorläufige archäozoologische Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen am Heumarkt in Köln. Kölner Jarhbuch 30: 405-413.</p>
<p>Kokabi, J. 2001. Archäozoologische Untersuchung zu den Ausgrabungen Köln-Heumarkt. Kölner Jarhbuch 34: 841-873.</p>
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fauna
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Early Middle Ages
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Zooarchaeological database of early medieval Heumarkt (Cologne, Germany)
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