dc.contributor.author | Lauritsen, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Allen, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Alves, JM | |
dc.contributor.author | Ameen, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Fowler, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Irving-Pease, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Larson, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Murphey, LJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Outram, AK | |
dc.contributor.author | Pilgrim, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Shaw, PA | |
dc.contributor.author | Sykes, N | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-23T15:09:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-10-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | Easter and Christmas are the most important events in the Christian calendar. Despite their global
reach and cultural significance astonishingly little is known about the festivals’ genesis. Equally
obscure is our understanding of the animals that have come to be associated with these celebrations
– notably the Christmas Turkey and the Easter ‘Bunny’ (brown hare and the European rabbit). Like
Christianity, none of these animals are native to Britain and the timing and circumstances of their
arrivals are poorly understood, often obfuscated by received wisdom. This paper firstly refines the
bio-cultural histories of the species that, in contemporary Britain, form integral parts of Easter and
Christmas festivities. Secondly, we celebrate the non-native species which have played such an
important role in the creation of Britain’s cultural heritage. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/N004558/1) and the
European Research Council (ERC-2013-StG-337574-UNDEAD). It includes data collected as part of Pilgrim’s Midlands3Cities-funded MRes and Fowler’s PhD research, funded by the AHRCMidlands3Cities
DTP. Thanks to Fay Worley, Polydora Baker and Gill Campbell at Historic England
and also Cécile Callou, Sheila Hamilton-Dyer, Tom Hartman and Richard Thomas for granting access
to reference specimens. Also to Jessica Harrison for sharing her unpublished reference osteometric
data and to Stephen Young and Rob Symmons for permission to work on archaeological samples.
Thanks to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum for providing access to the faunal material from Paul
Street. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 1 October 2018 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/00438243.2018.1515655 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33526 | |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | |
dc.subject | Easter | en_GB |
dc.subject | Christmas | en_GB |
dc.subject | rabbits | en_GB |
dc.subject | hares | en_GB |
dc.subject | turkeys | en_GB |
dc.title | Celebrating Easter, Christmas and their associated alien fauna | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 0043-8243 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | World Archaeology | en_GB |