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X.Elisabeta Berendi: Archaeozoological Description of the Faunal Remnants
have an economical importance, so for a long time they were not deeply analyzed. Same situation was noticed at Mîndrişca (Valea Seacă)25 and at Monteoru26: there were no certain types of dogs, but a big variability, with withers heights going from the smaller “palustris” dog (the visibly smaller bones found here) to our bigger type, which is the typical “bronze age dog”, the medium size (shoulder-bone height 53 cm) prehistoric sheep dog, Canis familiáris matris optimae /Jeittles 1877/27. Cervus elaphus (red deer) Some red deer bones were found on the site: 5 antler fragments, one tibia fragment, one metacarpus fragment, one metatarsus fragment and one phalanx II. These appeared in the following pits: Cxi5 (two antlers), Cx75 (antler), Cx97 (adult right tibia fragment with cutting marks), Cxi95 (antler and nothing else in the pit), Cx224 (adult phalanx II), Cx255 (right metacarpus fragment), ritual pit Cx268 (antler), and Cx329 (right tibia with signs of splitting in more directions on the diaphysis). The presence of red deer not only with antlers indicates that these people were hunting them in a small compass (probably ritually), but also collecting the shed antlers at the end of wintertime. Also, it indicates that deciduous and mixed forests were nearby, dotted with glades and meadows. During the summer, red deer migrate to higher elevations, where food supplies are greater for the calving season, so this explains why only adult bones were found - they were nearby this settlement only in wintertime. Only the phalanx was a complete element, which has a length (GL) of 46.2 mm, and the following parameters28: Bp: 21.1, Dp: 27.2, SD: 14.6, Bd: 18.3, Dd: 26.5. Lepus europaeus (hare) 29, mostly complete bones were recovered from the site, as follows: a partial skeleton (only post-cranial elements) from pit Cx42 which is interesting because nothing 25 According to Haimovici (1980) 26 According to Haimovici (1994) 27 From Vörös (1996) 28 Abbreviations after Angela von der Driesch (1976) 147
