Counting Roman chickens: Multidisciplinary approaches to human-chicken interactions in Roman Britain

摘要: This paper discusses some of the approaches and results from two multi-disciplinary projects. The first is AHRC-funded ‘Cultural Scientific Perceptions Human-Chicken Interactions’ Project. investigating history exploitation chickens in Europe. second Leverhulme Trust-funded ‘Rural Settlement Roman Britain’ Project, which has collated evidence excavation reports thousands sites. updates for Britain, showing that there were significant variations abundance chicken bones found on different types settlement. There was also a modest increase their during period suggesting became slightly more frequent contributors to diet, albeit still only rare commodity. However, they continued be frequently represented graves, shrines other ritual deposits. egg production avian osteopetrosis, demonstrating when traditional zooarchaeological research integrated with scientific analyses, deeper understanding past human diet can acquired.