Relationer mellem mennesker og tamfugle fra renæssancens Kongens Nytorv

In this thesis, an analysis and evaluation of bird bones from Kongens Nytorv was performed, to gather information about the economic, social and cultural relations between humans and domestic birds in post-medieval Copenhagen. The analysis was carried out by examining the bird bones in relation to contemporary agricultural and urban contexts. It turned out that the domestic birds, found on Kongens Nytorv most likely, were bred in the countryside around Copenhagen, i.e., at T˚arnbyg˚arden on Amager and was then sold at the city markets. The amount of goose bones found (compared to chicken bones) increases during the 15th century and onwards, indicating a decisive expansion of kept geese, probably driven by a change in culinary preference. It was investigated whether bird material can reflect the prosperity of Kongens Nytorv’s citizens. Some factors, such as many cockerels, suggested prosperous consumption patterns. Other factors, such as a minor presence of wild animals and relatively many poultry (compared to domesticated mammals), did not indicate the consumption of affluent citizens. New ways of interpreting archaeological data were used, inspired by zooarchaeologists such as Tyr Fothergill, Terry O’Connor, Nick Overton and Yannis Hamilakis. These scientists try to incorporate some of the innovative theoretical currents, seen in general archeology, into their work and illuminate the world through the lens of non-human animals, as opposed to the common anthropocentric approach. Usually it is asked how humans exploited the animals and what they meant to humans. It is rarely examines what humans meant to the animals. With this perspective, the faunal record can be considered as a materialised form of the temporal and spatial interaction and relationship that existed between the birds and the people who killed, ate, and then deposited them. For the last 2000 years, the domestic birds h
In this thesis, an analysis and evaluation of bird bones from Kongens Nytorv was performed, to gather information about the economic, social and cultural relations between humans and domestic birds in post-medieval Copenhagen. The analysis was carried out by examining the bird bones in relation to contemporary agricultural and urban contexts. It turned out that the domestic birds, found on Kongens Nytorv most likely, were bred in the countryside around Copenhagen, i.e., at Tårnbygården on Amager and was then sold at the city markets. The amount of goose bones found (compared to chicken bones) increases during the 15th century and onwards, indicating a decisive expansion of kept geese, probably driven by a change in culinary preference. It was investigated whether bird material can reflect the prosperity of Kongens Nytorv’s citizens. Some factors, such as many cockerels, suggested prosperous consumption patterns. Other factors, such as a minor presence of wild animals and relatively many poultry (compared to domesticated mammals), did not indicate the consumption of affluent citizens. New ways of interpreting archaeological data were used, inspired by zooarchaeologists such as Tyr Fothergill, Terry O’Connor, Nick Overton and Yannis Hamilakis. These scientists try to incorporate some of the innovative theoretical currents, seen in general archeology, into their work and illuminate the world through the lens of non-human animals, as opposed to the common anthropocentric approach. Usually it is asked how humans exploited the animals and what they meant to humans. It is rarely examines what humans meant to the animals. With this perspective, the faunal record can be considered as a materialised form of the temporal and spatial interaction and relationship that existed between the birds and the people who killed, ate, and then deposited them. For the last 2000 years, the domestic birds have been a regular part of the environment of Denmark, and