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ULVS XIV: Archaeozoological Evidence for Stock-raising and Stock-management in the Pre-desert

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

Gillian Clark
Gillian Clark*
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Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, Sheffield
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Abstract

This paper discusses the preliminary results of analysis of faunal material from eight sites of Romano-Libyan and Islamic date. The sites are located in the pre-desert of Tripolitania. The samples were in general small and the bones were not well preserved, the degree of fragmentation being high. Although a range of species is represented, the economic strategy depended upon the exploitation of sheep and goats. In the southern part of the study area gazelles were also of importance. Sheep and goats were raised primarily as meat animals, being killed principally during their second year of life. The basic economic system seems to have persisted for a long time, although slight differences can be detected between sites of Romano-Libyan date and of Islamic date.

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Libyan Studies , Volume 17 , 1986 , pp. 49 - 64
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Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 1986

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