Folia archeologica 36.

Lovag Zsuzsa: Egy XI. századi bronz korpusz

EARLY MEDIEVAL AUROCHS 205 19. Pohansko Castle — 8—9/11th century — 14 Aurochs.

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0 Carpathian Basin 20. Zalavár—

Mosaburg — 9—10th century — 27 Aurochs. Moldavia 21. Lukasevka — 9—11th century

41 Village — 9—10th century — 3 Aurochs. Town — 9—11th century — 9 Aurochs. Ukraine — Middle Dnieper Plain 22. Krinechnae — village I. — no date, but a Slav settlement — 1 Aurochs.

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2 23. Visgorod — 12—13th century — 36 large Bovida (of which 36 are from "Bison").

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3 24. Kiselevka — (6)-12th century — 8 "Aurochs".

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4 25. Sahnevka — 7—8th century — 1 "Aurochs".

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5 26. Karachevka — 11—12th century — 2 "Aurochs".

4« It was possible to collect 306 bone remains of large wild Bovid (Aurochs or/ and Bison) from 26 localities from the Early Middle Ages on — also including the early 6—8 th century periods of Slavic settlements in Ukraine. In Middle Europe (from the N to the S) large wild Bovid remains are known from 9 regions and in Eastern Europe from 2: Country Site sps. Century Animal Schleswig-Holstein 1 1 9-12 A Lower-Saxony 3 36 9-14 A—' A" Pomerany — Sea coast area 4 44 9-13 "A-B" S marginal area 1 57 10-13 A Brandenburg 3 12 9-12 AВ Mazowia 1 1 13 "A' »> Saxony/Lower Silesia 5 51 10-13 A-В South Moravia 1 14 8-9/11 A Carpathian Basin 1 27 9-10 A Moldavia 2 13 9-11 A Ukraine — Middle area 4 50 (6> -13 "A-В" 26~ 306 ~ 4

0 Kratochvil, Z., Die Tiere des Burgwalles Pohansko. Acta sc. nat. Brno 3(1) (1969) Tab. 1, 2; Id., Wildlebende Tiere und einige Haustiere der Burgstätte Pohamsko. Acta sc. nat. Brno 3(3) (1969a) 28. Some bone remains from Aurochs also have been found in the Early Medieval settlements of Stárá Kourim and Libice. 4

1 Calkin, V. I., Fauna iz raskopok slavyanskih pamyatnikov Moldavii (Fauna from excavated slavic monuments of Moldavia).Trudy Moskovskogo Obsestva Ispytatelej Prirody 48, Otdel Biologii Sekcija Zoologii (Moskva 1972) 53. Village — Site № 3.; Town — Site № 4.Bone remains of a large Bovid were found in the village of Lukasevka V. (12—15th centuries). Whether it was wild or domesticated was not noted — loc. cit. 54. 4

2 Ibid. 53. 4

3 Pidoplicko, I.G., Materialy do vivcennja minulih faun URSR. 2. Oglyad paleontologicnih znahidok za 1938—1954. (Kiev 1956) 39. 4

4 Ibid. 65. 4

5 Ibid. 162. 4

6 Id., Materialy do vivcennja minulih faun URSR. 1. Oglyad paleontologicnih znahidok za 1917—1937. (Kiev 1938) 141.