FAUNAL REMAINS FROM THE TANQASI BURIAL GROUND, SEASON 2006
FAUNAL REMAINS FROM THE TANQASI BURIAL GROUND, SEASON 2006

Summary/Abstract: Excavations of tumulus tomb Tnq.87 in 2006 yielded three assemblages of faunal remains originating from three separate chambers (S, N and W.2). Altogether, 151 bone fragments were examined. Individual bone fragments were examined in sets, which gave the opportunity to count the number of original remains deposited in the tomb. The skeletal material was identified by species and anatomical part; the remains were also examined to determine age at death of the animals and their morphology. No intentional cut marks were observed. A comparative analysis of cattle and goat remains was based on osteometric data. The goats from Tanqasi were compared with an assemblage from es-Sadda in the Fourth Cataract region. No such comparison was possible for the cattle remains for lack of chronologically homogeneous osteometric data, hence the results were juxtaposed with measurements made for material from Old Dongola. The Tanqasi assemblage contained two species of mammal remains – goat and cattle.

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