Were there camels in Roman Britain? A brief note on the nature and context of the London camel remains — new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/11/were-there-camels-in-roman-britain.html …pic.twitter.com/BXlMvE3cUH
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Fwiw, other remains of Byzantine-era camels found scattered at same site+these have butchery marks, suggesting consumption of camels... Same true for 5thC Marseille.
Looking westwards, camel remains have been found in early medieval Lyon (8th/9thC) and on several sites in southern Spain e.g. https://www.academia.edu/32458324/The_signature_of_a_blacksmith_on_a_dromedary_bone_from_Islamic_Seville_Spain_ …pic.twitter.com/RWVfIMCITO
Fwiw, Otto I of Germany also had camels in the mid-10thC, along with lions, monkeys & ostriches, gifts from delegations of 'Saracens', Greeks & Romans :) https://www.academia.edu/8482748/Cosmopolitan_Claims_Islamicate_Spolia_during_the_Reign_of_King_Henry_II_1002_24_in_Medieval_History_Journal_15_2_2012_S._299-318 …pic.twitter.com/xhT9m6NtTt
Camels in 9th- to early 20th-century Romania, including two finds from Byzantine-period sites (9th-12thC and 11thC): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adrian_Balasescu/publication/269167531_Camels_in_Romania/links/5489fde00cf2d1800d7aa6a2.pdf … (pic=camels in Dobruja, c.1900)pic.twitter.com/Njn9ln4Pd8
A rather nice medieval illustration of a camel :)https://twitter.com/yvonneseale/status/970279944692486145 …
A monkey riding a camel; MS M.1004 f. 160r, France, c.1420–25: http://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/page/220/76924 …pic.twitter.com/cBLLbxXMxV
Wouldn't camels as beasts of burden be quite common in that part of the world?
Probably, but they are rather scarce in the archaeological record, often only single finds. I mapped byzantine camels for my 2010 book (that Yenikapi beauty was unpublished back then).
Oh, nice map :) @garthygarthy : book is here https://www.academia.edu/347552/Henriette_Kroll_Tiere_im_Byzantinischen_Reich._Archäozoologische_Forschungen_im_Überblick._Monographien_des_Römisch-Germanischen_Zentralmuseums_87_Mainz_2010_ … Camels etc mapped at fig. 68 (p.169) w/ nice discussion in German on pp. 172–4 :)
Thank you, Caitlin!
Hah! They're fab! :)
You make me laugh.
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