Livestock and the Early Medieval Diet in Northern Gaul
Jean‐Hervé Yvinec|Maude Barme
Animals played an important role in Merovingian rural society, but it is only recently that archaeo-osteology has made possible to think about diet and animal husbandry a more nuanced way. The number of animals relative population varied significantly over time by region, cattle were prominent. Their high representation among livestock owed much their multifunctionality during lifetimes, after death. place pigs was somewhat less secure, with decline the period new prominence Carolingian era. Ovicaprids likewise occupied relatively marginal Gallo-Roman periods gained increasingly influential space early medieval diets Once techniques mass butchery disappeared, there break chain artisanal handling beef caused ruralization society (which movement products distances difficult), human changed northern Gaul further supplemented through wild game birds provisioned hunting.
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