Title: Bones, behaviour and belief
Description: "The importance of the zooarchaeological evidence as a source for ritual  practices in ancient Greece is gradually becoming widely recognized.  Animal bones form the only category of evidence for Greek cult which is  constantly significantly increasing, and they can complement and elucidate  the information provided by texts, inscriptions and images. This volume  brings together sixteen contributions exploring ritual practices and  animal bones from different chronological and geographical perspectives,  foremost ancient Greece in the historical period, but also in the Bronze  Age and as early as the Neolithic period, as well as Anatolia, France and  Scandinavia, providing new empirical evidence from a number of major  sanctuaries and cult-places. On a methodological level, the complexity of  identifying ritual activity from the zooarchaeological evidence is a  recurrent theme, as is the prominence of local variation visible in the  bone material, suggesting that the written sources and iconography may  offer simplified or idealized versions of the rituals actually performed.  Although zooarchaeology needs to and should be integrated with other kinds  of sources, the independent study of the bones in an unbiased manner is of  utmost importance, as the bones can provide a different  "reality" than that encountered in our other sources."--Publisher's website.
Subjects: Rites and ceremonies, Religion, Archäozoologie, Tierknochenfund, Tieropfer, Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Manuscrits, Fac-similés, Greek Inscriptions, Catalogs, Amphora stamps, Inscriptions grecques, Catalogues, Céramqiues, Marques, Antiquities, Antiquités, Processual archaeology
Places: Greece