Pleuger-Dreibrodt, Sarah & Küchelmann, Hans Christian (2026): Mehrzweckviehaltung im Einzugsgebiet der Weser. Die Tierknochenfunde aus der Kirchwurt Stollhamm / Beckmannsfeld, Kreis Wesermarsch, Bericht an das Niedersächsische Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, Stützpunkt Oldenburg, Bremen
[Multipurpose Livestock Keeping in the Catchment Area of the Weser. The Animal Bones from the Church Wharf of Stollhamm / Beckmannsfeld]
Abstract
Like in comparable high medieval church wharfs in Northern Germany livestock keeping in Stollhamm is based largely on cattle keeping. Pigs and sheep / goats were kept as well. The domestic animals were kept for mixed purposes (meat, dairy products, traction power, raw materials). The focus of the pig keeping seems to have been on meat production, whereas in cattle and sheep / goats milk was a larger factor. The high proportion of anthropogenic working traces in form of cut and chop marks, mixed with and partially superimposed by bone working traces for artefacts is a special feature of the Stollhamm bone assemblage.
Pleuger-Dreibrodt, Sarah & Küchelmann, Hans Christian (2026): Mehrzweckviehaltung im Einzugsgebiet der Weser. Die Tierknochenfunde aus der Kirchwurt Stollhamm / Beckmannsfeld, Kreis Wesermarsch, Bericht an das Niedersächsische Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, Stützpunkt Oldenburg, Bremen
[Multipurpose Livestock Keeping in the Catchment Area of the Weser. The Animal Bones from the Church Wharf of Stollhamm / Beckmannsfeld]
Abstract
Like in comparable high medieval church wharfs in Northern Germany livestock keeping in Stollhamm is based largely on cattle keeping. Pigs and sheep / goats were kept as well. The domestic animals were kept for mixed purposes (meat, dairy products, traction power, raw materials). The focus of the pig keeping seems to have been on meat production, whereas in cattle and sheep / goats milk was a larger factor. The high proportion of anthropogenic working traces in form of cut and chop marks, mixed with and partially superimposed by bone working traces for artefacts is a special feature of the Stollhamm bone assemblage.