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What does a bear baiting assemblage look like?: Interdisciplinary analysis of an early modern “sport”

What does a bear baiting assemblage look like?: Interdisciplinary analysis of an early modern “sport”
What does a bear baiting assemblage look like?: Interdisciplinary analysis of an early modern “sport”
Bear baiting was a popular and culturally important form of entertainment in Shakespeare’s England. It occurred all over the country, but was most formalised in Bankside, London, a key early modern entertainment hub. Here, we bring together zooarchaeological, stable isotope and archival evidence from nine archaeological sites in Bankside to define features specific to bear baiting. We then provide a model for identifying bear baiting assemblages in the archaeological record of England and beyond.
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Wright, Elizabeth, Davies, Callan, Lamb, Angela, Miller, Holly, Rielly, Kevin, Charlton, Sophie, Kesson, Andy, Larson, Greger, Lewis, Liam and O'Regan, Hannah (2024) What does a bear baiting assemblage look like?: Interdisciplinary analysis of an early modern “sport”. Antiquity. (In Press)

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Bear baiting was a popular and culturally important form of entertainment in Shakespeare’s England. It occurred all over the country, but was most formalised in Bankside, London, a key early modern entertainment hub. Here, we bring together zooarchaeological, stable isotope and archival evidence from nine archaeological sites in Bankside to define features specific to bear baiting. We then provide a model for identifying bear baiting assemblages in the archaeological record of England and beyond.

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Accepted/In Press date: 1 September 2024

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Local EPrints ID: 495390
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/495390
ISSN: 0003-598X
PURE UUID: 79a47b8d-3d24-4c81-ba96-fc75f1e20abd
ORCID for Callan Davies: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6554-0660

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Date deposited: 12 Nov 2024 17:52
Last modified: 12 Dec 2024 05:01

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Author: Elizabeth Wright
Author: Callan Davies ORCID iD
Author: Angela Lamb
Author: Holly Miller
Author: Kevin Rielly
Author: Sophie Charlton
Author: Andy Kesson
Author: Greger Larson
Author: Liam Lewis
Author: Hannah O'Regan

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