Animal Remains from the Late Medieval Castellum of Csény-oltovány, Southern Hungary
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Archaeozoology is devoted to the identification, analysis, and interpretation of animal remains from archaeological sites. The reconstruction of everyday life in the medieval period has become unimaginable without considering archaeological phenomena, as emphasis tends to be placed on outstanding events and personalities at the expense of the simple matters of life that characterized daily practices even in well-documented situations. It is especially challenging to investigate whether medieval documentary sources match the evidence of archaeological animal bone assemblages. Moreover, such written sources are frequently missing and the study of artefactual remains is the only way medieval daily life can be understood. This study is the summary of meat consumption and animal use at the late medieval site known today as csény-Oltovány in Tolna County, Hungary. The only written reference to the castle of Györke that once stood at this location is indirect (castellanus castelli Gywrke), originating from a 1446 legal document supporting the typochronological dating of the archaeological finds covering the time interval between the period of the Árpád Dynasty (ending in 1301) and the beginning of the Ottoman-Turkish occupation of Hungary in 1526 that probably also marked the end of the small castle’s history.1
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