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RECERCAT author Salazar-García, Domingo Carlos author Colominas Barberà, Lídia author Jordana, Xabier 2022-09-05T08:22:25Z2024-10-29T10:43:12Z 2022-09-05T08:22:25Z2024-10-29T10:43:12Z 2022-08-24 1932-6203 http://hdl.handle.net/2072/522685 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271296 Ancient written sources show that Roman funerary rituals were relevant along the entire Roman Republic and Empire, as they ensured the protection of deities and the memory of the deceased. Part of these rituals consisted of funerary offerings and banquets that were held on the day of the burial, in festivities and other stipulated days. The faunal remains recovered inside the graves and around them are evidence of these rituals. Therefore, their study can allow us to know if the funerary meals and rituals developed in the Roman necropolis were special and implied food that differed from everyday dietary habits, according to the importance of these rituals. To test this, we analysed the archaeozoological and anthropological material from the necropolis of Vila de Madrid (Barcelona, Catalonia), which was in use between the first half of the 2nd century AD and mid 3rd century AD. The archaeozoological analysis of the faunal remains recovered in the necropolis and inside the graves, as well as carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios results on bone collagen from 50 faunal specimens and 41 humans, suggest that, overall, funerary meals in Vila de Madrid necropolis did not imply different food than that consumed during life. Regarding age, sex, offerings and diet, some differences are observed, suggesting that inequalities present in life could have been also present in the funerary rituals. eng © 2022 Salazar-García et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Food for the soul and food for the body. Studying dietary patterns and funerary meals in the Western Roman Empire: An anthropological and archaeozoological approach info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion URL https://recercat.cat/bitstream/2072/522685/1/2022-food-for-the-soul-and-food-for-the-body.pdf File MD5 41d102a194b6a37b429723f631a17943 1836036 application/pdf 2022-food-for-the-soul-and-food-for-the-body.pdf URL https://recercat.cat/bitstream/2072/522685/2/2022-food-for-the-soul-and-food-for-the-body.pdf.txt File MD5 503ba8129824807f2376b0d28960d697 71266 text/plain 2022-food-for-the-soul-and-food-for-the-body.pdf.txt