A noble diet at the Hof van Leugenhaeghe (Steendorp, Belgium): pig skulls as a fourteenth-fifteenth century delicacy?

作者：Aluwe Kim L M^*; Starkovich Britt M; Van Vaerenbergh Jeroen

来源：Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2018, 10(2): 247-257.

DOI：10.1007/s12520-016-0349-5

• Zooarchaeology
• Late-medieval
• Flanders
• Nobility
• Social status

The animal remains found at the fourteenth-fifteenth century Hof van Leugenhaeghe are crucial to reconstruct the life of the noble inhabitants, as all buildings were destroyed with the construction of a later estate on the property called the Blauwhof. The diet confirms the high social status of this nobility with the suspected consumption of pig skulls, a possible sign of wealth in late-medieval Flanders. Other signs of a noble diet are found as well: juvenile cattle, a diverse spectrum of game, partridge and grey heron. The observed pattern of a wealthy diet is consistent with the zooarchaeological assemblages found at other noble sites in late-medieval Flanders.

• 出版日期2018-3