Finds 59
Main Information
| Finds ID | 59 |
| Site |
Hallan Cemi |
| Area |
ID 25 settlement |
| Research event | excavation: rescue Hallan Cemi excavation 1991 - 1994 |
| Finds type | animal remains |
| Small finds category | None |
| Small finds type | |
| Botany species | |
| Animal remains species |
dog (Canis familiaris) fish (None) pig (Sus scrofa domesticus) red deer (Cervus elaphus) sheep/goat (Ovis/Capra) |
| Animal remains completeness | incomplete |
| Animal remains part |
skull unknown |
| Lithics technology | |
| Lithics industry | |
| Lithics cores and preparation | |
| Lithics retouched tools | |
| Lithics unretouched tools | |
| Lithics raw material | |
| Obsidian | None |
| Obsidian amount | None |
| Pottery form | |
| Pottery detail | |
| Pottery decoration | |
| Pottery type | None |
| Amount | |
| Material | |
| Confidence | 5 |
| Comment | The animal species exploited by the site's inhabitants include sheep/goats, deer, pig, canids, bears, and a variety of small mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish. Though most of the animals consumed by the site's inhabitants were, as expected, wild and presumably obtained by hunting, there is strong evidence that the site's inhabitants were beginning to experiment with a rudimentary form of animal husbandry. However, these early experiments with animal husbandry did not involve sheep or goats, the species which are widely thought to be the earliest to be fully domesticated; rather, they involved the husbandry of pigs. Sheep and deer were the most intensively exploited animal species at Hallan Cemi. The data indicate that all the bones from these species were from morphologically wild individuals and were presumably obtained by hunting. However, the pig data indicate that some primitive form of husbandry was being practiced with these animals to some degree. Specifically, the survivorship curve indicates that a particularly high number (43%) of the pigs did not live beyond one year of age, a pattern typically seen at sites with domesticated pigs and not at sites where pigs were obtained by hunting. |
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Interpretations related to these Finds
| Interpretation |
ID 39
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