New data on livestock and hunting in the precucutenian settlement at Costişa -„Cetăţuie” (Neamţ County)
New data on livestock and hunting in the precucutenian settlement at Costişa -„Cetăţuie” (Neamţ County)

Summary/Abstract: 3,038 bones from Costişa-Plateau A and 182 fragments from Plateau B, dated in Precucuteni culture, phase III were analysed and intabulated. According statistics, the menu of the inhabitants of Costişa contained mainly meat of hunted animals; the anatomical distribution of faunal remains indicates that, more or less, all parts of carcass are represented. It means that domestic mamals animals were raised on the spot and the wild ones were entirely carried into the site after hunting. As a strange fact the faunal samples do not contain horns of cattle, sheep and goats, despite of its rickness. In animal husbandry cattle dominate. Nearly 42% of cattle were butchered before the age of 3 years and 60% over. Such age structure suggests the raising equally for beef, dairying and draught power. The importance of pig breeding was evidently reduced, the taxon accounting for 7.2%. The role of small ruminants in animal husbandry is minor, around 2% being raised for meat and dairy products. The faunal remains from Costişa provide pretty enough information about size of most of the exploited taxa.

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