Abstract
The excavations at Ḥorbat ‘Ofrat yielded a small assemblage of animal bones from Iron II contexts and a medium-sized sample of bones from a Mamluk building. The Iron II sample indicates a non-specialized economy, probably practiced by town-dwellers, alongside sporadic hunting. The Mamluk-period faunal remains attest to a husbandry regime, as well as hunting. The zooarchaeological finds from the Mamluk period suggest the presence of high-status individuals, either Christian pilgrims on their way to Nazareth or itinerant Muslim elites on a hunting foray.
Keywords
archaeozoology, morphology, economy, butchery
Recommended Citation
Marom, Nimrod
(2019)
"Animal Bones from Iron Age and Mamluk-Period Contexts in Ḥorbat ‘Ofrat (pp. 129–144),"
'Atiqot: Vol. 95, Article 9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.2056
Available at:
https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol95/iss1/9
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