As part of collaboration between UrbNet PhD student Kirstine Haase, Assistant Professor Luise Ørsted Brandt and conservator at Odense City Museums Jannie Amsgaard Ebsen a small exhibition named "Skin & Bones – animals from the medieval town" opened in the lobby at Odense City Museums on the 28th of August.

In a large show case the exhibition gives an overview of the potential in using the method ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry) for studying use of animal resources. As animals provided many indispensable raw materials such as meat, milk, muck, leather and bone for tools and utensils they present a means for studying the dynamics of everyday life in the urban medieval environment.

The exhibition presents how we have been able to get an overview of the great variation in use of animal bone for combs and the very specific choices made for manufacturing of leather shoes.

Earlier this year some of the results were published in Danish journal of archaeology (https://doi.org/10.1080/21662282.2018.1468154). The show case is an excellent opportunity to present the research results and potential the ZooMS method holds in a more popular format to a wider audience.

The exhibition can be accessed during opening hours at the museum in Odense, Møntestræde 1, 5000 Odense C, until 25th of November 2018 and is free of charge.