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‘Atiqot 95 (2019)
ISBN 2948-040X
Animal Bones from Iron Age and Mamluk-Period Contexts in Ḥorbat ‘Ofrat
(pp. 129–144)
Nimrod Marom
Keywords: archaeozoology, morphology, economy, butchery
The excavations at Ḥorbat ‘Ofrat yielded a small assemblage of animal bones from Iron II contexts and a medium-sized sample of bones from a Mamluk building. The Iron II sample indicates a non-specialized economy, probably practiced by town-dwellers, alongside sporadic hunting. The Mamluk-period faunal remains attest to a husbandry regime, as well as hunting. The zooarchaeological finds from the Mamluk period suggest the presence of high-status individuals, either Christian pilgrims on their way to Nazareth or itinerant Muslim elites on a hunting foray.