What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’

Wright, Elizabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0770-3898; Davies, Callan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6554-0660; Lamb, Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1809-4327; Miller, Holly ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0394-9444; Rielly, Kevin; Charlton, Sophy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-2635; Kesson, Andy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3612-3355; Larson, Greger ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4092-0392; Lewis, Liam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1734-3467; O'Regan, Hannah J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6293-5475. 2025 What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’. Antiquity. 17, pp. 10.15184/aqy.2024.228

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Abstract/Summary

Bear baiting was a popular form of entertainment in Shakespearean England that was staged across the country but formalised in the Early Modern entertainment hub on Bankside, London. Here, the authors bring together zooarchaeological, stable isotope and archival evidence in the examination of faunal assemblages from nine archaeological sites on Bankside to elucidate characteristics indicative of bear baiting. In doing so, they present criteria for identifying bear-baiting assemblages in the archaeological record of England and beyond, even in the absence of associated documentary evidence.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.15184/aqy.2024.228
ISSN:	0003-598X
Date made live:	11 Mar 2025 14:37 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/539070

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