ABSTRACT
English history can be said to begin with the Adventus Saxonum or the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons beginning in the 5th century a.d. The Saxon conquests were temporarily stemmed by a British victory at a place called Mons Bandoncus, but the peace was to be only temporary. In 1965 Stanley West, County Archaeological Officer for Suffolk in eastern England, began the first of eight seasons of excavations at the early Anglo-Saxon village of West Stow. The methods used to analyze the roughly 250 boxes of animal bones from West Stow were those of faunal analysis or zooarchaeology. Based on the apparent evidence for similarities in animal husbandry practices between Early Anglo-Saxon England and Roman and Iron Age Britain, the author suggested that this evidence for continuities in rural economy and land use might reflect some degree of British survival in Early Anglo-Saxon England.
