Abstract

This study is a statistical analysis of the osteological remains found at Caesarea Maritima in Israel during the 1972 Archaeological Expedition to that city. It is limited to the following animal_ groups: Large Ruminants, Small Ruminants, Suiformes and Equidae.

Included in the introduction is a section on field and laboratory techniques. The use of edge-punch cards for data retrieval is explained and the excavation, cleaning, numbering and identifying of the bones is described.

No positive conclusions are drawn from the data but some important·inferences and postulates are included in . the report. A statistical chronological analysis of the bones, in correlation with the pottery associated with it, produced, with the aid of a computer, a picture of how the meat eating habits of the Caesareans changed during the history of the city. The results of another analytical approach hint that one of the excavation fields represented a population with different eating habits from the other two. Another field produced osteological evidence of being non-residential. Significant concentrations throughout the fields are discussed with their possible implications. For instance, the statistical analysis of one of them gave possible evidence that it was near a slaughter house or butcher shop.

Department

Anthropology

School

Graduate School

First Advisor

John W. Elick

Second Advisor

Betty J. Stirling

Third Advisor

Kenneth L. Vine

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Degree Level

M.A.

Year Degree Awarded

1973

Date (Title Page)

1-1973

Language

English

Library of Congress/MESH Subject Headings

Animal remains (Archaeology)

Type

Thesis

Page Count

viii; 141

Digital Format

PDF

Digital Publisher

Loma Linda University Libraries

Usage Rights

This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has granted Loma Linda University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other copyrights.

Collection

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Collection Website

http://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/etd/

Repository

Loma Linda University. Del E. Webb Memorial Library. University Archives

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