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What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an early modern ‘sport’
- Abstract:
- Bear baiting was a popular form of entertainment in Shakespearean England that was staged across the country but formalised in the Early Modern entertainment hub on Bankside, London. Here, the authors bring together zooarchaeological, stable isotope and archival evidence in the examination of faunal assemblages from nine archaeological sites on Bankside to elucidate characteristics indicative of bear baiting. In doing so, they present criteria for identifying bear-baiting assemblages in the archaeological record of England and beyond, even in the absence of associated documentary evidence.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.15184/aqy.2024.228
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/0505m1554
- Grant:
- AH/T006552/1
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Antiquity More from this journal
- Volume:
- 99
- Issue:
- 404
- Pages:
- 536-552
- Publication date:
- 2025-02-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-09-13
- DOI:
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1745-1744
- ISSN:
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0003-598X
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2092976
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pubs:2092976
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2025-04-28
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- Copyright holder:
- Wright et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2025
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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