Institute of Archaeology
Topic
Animal husbandry in the Roman period in western Slovakia
PhD. program
Year of admission
2025
Name of the supervisor
Mgr. Branislav Kovár, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
Annotation
The dissertation project deals with the part of the Roman period economy related to animal husbandry, livestock production, and food of animal origin in the Germanic and Roman Provincial milieu north of the Danube. The main aim is to contribute to the debate on animal husbandry strategies in the context of changing Roman-Germanic relations and the differentiated structure of Germanic society in the Central Danube area. The work also intends to capture the manifestations of the Romanization of the Quadi, e.g., in animal husbandry techniques or in the diet of the “barbarians”. The animal bone remains are the main sources of knowledge, considering the available archaeological, historical, and archaeobotanical sources. One of the contributions of the thesis is the processing of extensive, previously unpublished, bone assemblages from key Quadi sites in western Slovakia using modern analytical methods of archaeozoological research.