DESPRE CREŞTEREA ANIMALELOR, CUNOŞTINŢE DE ZOOTEHNIE ŞI MEDICINĂ VETERINARĂ ÎN PROVINCIILE DACICE (106-275)
ANIMAL BREEDING, ZOOTECHNICS AND VETERINARY MEDICINE IN THE DACIAN PROVINCES (106-275).

Summary/Abstract: Introduction a) The object (purpose) of the paper b) The present stage of research and knowledge c) The research method and the tackling of the problem Sources concerning the existence. usage and breeding of animals a) Written and epigraphic sources b) Iconographical sources c) Proper archaeological sources (harness pieces, cart and yoke fragments, hiposandales etc) d) Historical deductions Osteological analyses- a primay source for cognition of the domain a) Statistical view over the domain based on the osteological material b) Animal effectives, species and races c) Problems of zootechnics d) Veterinary medicine e) Duties of the archaeologist regarding the collection and treatment of the osteological material Conclusions a) Ancestral domestic animal stock found by the Romans on the Dacian territory b) The Roman colonisation, setting up of the occupation troops and changes occurred in the animal effectives c) Archaeozoology, its contribution to the cognition of the domain d) Animal races within the species e) Problems raised by the adaptation of foreign races to the local conditions (interbreeding, improvement) f) Specific problems of the archaeozoology in Romania Abbreviations and bibliography List of illustrations In a previous work the authors (an anatomist and an archaeologist) overviewed the situation of the animal breeding up to the Roman conquest (Gudea-Gudea 1999). In the present paper they intend to tackle the problem of domestic animal breeding with all the problems connected to this activity in the Dacian provinces (106-275 AD). The introduction comprises some preparatory matters: a) The paper assumes at its purpose the presentation, for the first time, of a methodological study of the animal breeding in the Dacian provinces alongside with problems connected to zootechnics and veterinary medicine, as much as they can be deduced from the existing sources. b) The research of these domains, unfortunately, is very much left behind in Romania, no matter it concerns animal breeding as a branch of economic history (see bibliography: works about the economic history of the provinces) or the knowledge of zootechnical and veterinary medicine problems as branches of the history of the respective sciences (see bibliography relating to these domains). c) The authors have decided to describe, for the time being, all data identified by them: epigraphical, iconological, archaeological proper, historical deductions, together with the few osteological analyses for each settlement. From these sources they hope to "extract" every possible thing for the attainment of their goal.

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