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https://doi.org/10.21857/mwo1vc5dly
A Contribution to the Research of the Economy and Dietary Habits in Turopolje in the Thirteenth Century. Animal Remnants from the Archaeological Site of Kobilić 1
Nikolina Antonić
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Kyra Lyublyanovics
; Central European University, Budimpešta, Mađarska
Sažetak
This paper tries to raise some questions and offer some new insights into one, hitherto neglected, topic: the economic basis of the castle warriors of Turopolje in the thirteenth century. Two types of sources were used in this analysis: historical sources – thirteenth-century charters from Turopolje – and archaeozoological sources – faunal remains from the archaeological site Kobilić 1. Although the number of the faunal remains collected during the excavations at Kobilić 1 is too small to allow any far-reaching hypothesis and conclusions, the paper argues that even this small amount of data has a certain value when incorporated into the frame of a certain region. While charters inform us about the private ownership of the land, about the land as a frequent object of sale (with the Zagreb denarius being the money in use in this period), and about extensive pig farming and the group of castrenses whose duty was to carry wood, the animal remains point to some activities, such as hunting and the raising of sheep and goats, that are not mentioned in the sources. With the systematic publication of the archaeozoological results, the data will increase, and new and more precise conclusions about both the economic basis and the everyday life in Turopolje in the Middle Ages will be offered. In that respect, the potentials of archaeozoology in the further development of medieval studies are significant, especially for the earlier centuries, when there are no written documents or only a small amount. Along with that, some methodological problems that researchers face in terms of connecting the archaeological remains with a specific social group are also discussed, through the example of the site Kobilić 1.
Ključne riječi
Turopolje; Kobilić; castle warriors; castrenses; historical sources; archaeozoological sources
Hrčak ID:
179580
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.12.2016.
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