Evidence of the use of a horn yoke in the Middle La Tène period, and an analysis of animal finds from La Tène features in the Velké Zboží and Malé Zboží cadasters, central Bohemia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20377136 |
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| Authors | René Kyselý (0000-0002-0788-7287, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Prague, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 432-437 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archeologické rozhledy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0323-1267 • E-ISSN: 2570-9151 |
| Publisher | Institute of Archaeology of the CAS - Prague, v.v.i (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.35686/ar.2015.23 |
| OpenAlex | W4360971288 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
During archaeological excavations of three La Tène features in 2001 and 2002 at the periphery of the Velké Zboží and Malé Zboží cadasters (Nymburk district), a total of 33 animal bones were obtained. Only domestic mammals were determined in the material: cattle, sheep/goat (of which only sheep is reliably documented), pig, horse and dog. A valuable find from feat. 8 (LT C2-D1) is a horn core from a domestic cattle (Bos taurus), which shows signs of pathology. The pathology comes in the form of a depression on the anterior surface, which leads to the narrowing of the horn. Such pathology is considered to be the result of long-term use of a forehead yoke. The find represents one of a few documented cases of the use of the yoke in prehistory in the territory of today’s Czech Republic. A hornless sheep is documented at another feature
Ancient history · Archaeology · Biology · French horn · Geography · Ovis · Prehistory · Veterinary medicine · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · History · Medicine · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Psychology · Anatomy
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |