The report describes and discusses the study of animal bones from urban excavations, based on experience gained during the study of material from York.
A detailed analysis of 11th to 15th century bone assemblages from 16–22 Coppergate and a synthesis of those data with assemblages of the same period with other sites in the city.
The 1985–6 excavations at 46-54 Fishergate provided the first opportunity nationally to excavate to modem standards a house of the Gilbertine order, and the first opportunity in York to investigate a substantial area of Anglian occupation of the 8th–9th centuries AD. It was, therefore, one of the most important excavations to have been undertaken in the city to date.
This report deals with biological evidence from two sites within the area of the Roman civil town or colonia close to the River Ouse and the probable Roman river crossing.
This book, no 19 in the CBA Practical Handbook series, provides the very latest guidance on all aspects of the recovery, handling and study of human remains. It beings by asking why we should study human remains, and the ethical issues surrounding their recovery, analysis and curation, along with consideration of the current legal requirements associated with the excavation of human remains in Britain.