Black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius L.) in the archaeozoological context of the Savvatiev Pustyn', a medieval rural Russian monastery

Abstract

Here we report a discovery of a bone of the black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius L.) in medieval layers of the rural Savvatiev Monastery (Tver Region, Russia). Deposited in the wooden house, presumably refectory, sub‐floor woodpecker's remains could be associated with an activity of the cat. A complex of bones, associated with the find, characterizes the place as a monastery.

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