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The bird bones from Abu Salabikh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

Anne Eastham
Anne Eastham*
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Dolau, Dwrbach, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire SA65 9RN, UK
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Abstract

In the course of excavations at Abu Salabikh in the 1970s and 1980s bird bones were recovered in small numbers from a range of contexts. These have been identified and are described here. In general, they give a picture of the contemporary rural environment round the city in the mid-third millennium BC, and shed light on contemporary diet. One unusual find in particular is discussed in more detail: that of an entire goshawk skeleton placed near a child in a grave with an adult (Grave 158). This is an interesting piece of evidence which might be taken to illustrate the practice of falconry in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia.

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IRAQ , Volume 71 , 2009, pp. 99 - 114
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2009

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