VAN BEESTEN, BIKKELS EN WEEKDIEREN: ZES HUIZEN IN HELLENISTISCH HALOS (GRIEKENLAND)

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The inhabitants of six houses of the Hellenistic town of New Halos (Thessaly, Greece, 302-265 BC) consumed the meat of sheep, goats, cattle, pig, horse and ass. Marine shellfish of 24 different species were consumed in large quanti­ties. Game was a rare item on the menu. Sheep, goat and cattle astragali were used as knuckle­bones (jacks). They were superficially burnt, possibly in the fire of house altars. Red deer and roe deer antlers presumably were burnt at the same altars.