Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain

This paper presents new carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotope data for European fallow deer (Dama dama dama) in Roman Britain and discusses results in light of evidence from classical texts, landscape archaeology, zooarchaeology and the limited available samples of metric data. The new isotope data p...

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Main Authors: Madgwick, Richard, Sykes, Naomi, Miller, Holly, Symmons, Robert, Morris, James, Lamb, Angela L.
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author Madgwick, Richard
Sykes, Naomi
Miller, Holly
Symmons, Robert
Morris, James
Lamb, Angela L.
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description This paper presents new carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotope data for European fallow deer (Dama dama dama) in Roman Britain and discusses results in light of evidence from classical texts, landscape archaeology, zooarchaeology and the limited available samples of metric data. The new isotope data presented here are from Fishbourne Roman Palace (Sussex), two sites on the Isle of Thanet (Kent) and a further two sites in London. In spite of small sample sizes the data make an important contribution to the very limited corpus of scientific research on the species and provide new resolution to the nature of fallow deer movement and management in Roman Britain.
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spelling nottingham-530962020-05-04T16:37:07Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/53096/ Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain Madgwick, Richard Sykes, Naomi Miller, Holly Symmons, Robert Morris, James Lamb, Angela L. This paper presents new carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotope data for European fallow deer (Dama dama dama) in Roman Britain and discusses results in light of evidence from classical texts, landscape archaeology, zooarchaeology and the limited available samples of metric data. The new isotope data presented here are from Fishbourne Roman Palace (Sussex), two sites on the Isle of Thanet (Kent) and a further two sites in London. In spite of small sample sizes the data make an important contribution to the very limited corpus of scientific research on the species and provide new resolution to the nature of fallow deer movement and management in Roman Britain. Springer 2013-06-30 Article PeerReviewed Madgwick, Richard, Sykes, Naomi, Miller, Holly, Symmons, Robert, Morris, James and Lamb, Angela L. (2013) Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 5 (2). pp. 111-122. ISSN 1866-9565 Fallow deer; Stable isotopes; Roman Britain; Biogeography; Management https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12520-013-0120-0 doi:10.1007/s12520-013-0120-0 doi:10.1007/s12520-013-0120-0
spellingShingle Fallow deer; Stable isotopes; Roman Britain; Biogeography; Management
Madgwick, Richard
Sykes, Naomi
Miller, Holly
Symmons, Robert
Morris, James
Lamb, Angela L.
Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain
title Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain
title_full Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain
title_fullStr Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain
title_full_unstemmed Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain
title_short Fallow deer (Dama dama dama) management in Roman South-East Britain
title_sort fallow deer (dama dama dama) management in roman south-east britain
topic Fallow deer; Stable isotopes; Roman Britain; Biogeography; Management
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