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La boucherie et les sacrifices bovins en Gaule aux IIe et Ier siècles avant notre ère

2007

Piles of animal bones from large domesticates – cattle and horses – have been identified on various settlement sites in Gaul ; these have undergone practices readily distinguishable from domestic butchery. Already perceptible on rural sites, these indications of a special butchery regime for cattle become more and more apparent elsewhere in tandem with the increasingly urbanised character of settlements. Cattle was also sacrificed during the Iron Age at sanctuaries, but only a small proportion of the meat produced was consumed in banquets held on site. At the Titelberg oppidum, substantial quantities of cattle bones were piled up around the sanctuaries at the end of the Iron Age and at the …