Animal remains from 17 th century Carnide, Lisbon, Portugal Cleia Detry 1 , Ana Beatriz Santos 2 , Tânia Casimiro 3 , Ana Caessa 4 & Nuno Mota 4 1 UNIARQ - Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. 2 Independent Archaeologist 3 Instituto de História Contemporânea, Instituto de Arqueologia e Paleociências, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. 4 Centro de Arqueologia de Lisboa, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. Excavations undertaken in 2012 by the Centro de Arqueologia de Lisboa (CAL), in Largo do Coreto (Bandstand square) in Carnide (Lisbon, Portugal), uncovered over 7,000 faunal remains. These came from 60 underground pits previously used for storage, especially cereal, and subsequently, between 1550 and 1660 AD, filled with domestic rubbish. Most remains belonged to mammals and birds, with a significant number of molluscs. They are presumably food waste which therefore tell us something about the way of life of the inhabitants of 17 th century Carnide. These people clearly depended primarily on domestic animals such as cattle, pig, sheep and goat as well as chicken and goose. Large wild animal remains were strikingly absent though there were some bones of small game like rabbit and partridge. For the rabbit it is unclear if it was the domestic or wild variety. A few remains of ferret and raptors point to their possible uses for hunting. A number of whole skeletons of cats and dogs, with no trace of butchery, were probably deposited as garbage. Key-words: Zooarchaeology, Carnide-Portugal, 17 th century, storage pits Introduction The archaeological intervention in Carnide (Lisbon) took place between May 2012 and April 2013 and was supervised by archaeologists of the Lisbon Archaeological Centre (CAL). It took the form of archaeological monitoring of floor removal in order to replace pavements and the excavation of 62 archaeological trenches, responding to a need to open ditches to install infrastructures in the Largo do Coreto and adjacent streets. The archaeological work recorded the considerable urban transformation that Carnide underwent in the middle of the 19 th century - an extensive change of the landscape (Caessa & Mota 2013, Caessa & Mota 2014). Despite this destructive episode, it was possible to identify, in the western area of the Largo, the foundation of a medieval church dedicated to the Holy Spirit and some of the burials that date from the 17 th century and continued until the 19 th century, made in and around this building, (Garcia, Caessa & Mota in press). Various archaeological features were identified, and 136 storage pits, excavated in the bed rock, were found by Ana Caessa and Nuno Mota (a total of 172 of these structures have so far been identified in Carnide since the 19 th century). They seem to correspond to the "covas de pão" (bread/cereal pits) mentioned in the medieval