Applications of Isotope Research in Zooarchaeology
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)
Recent advances in stable isotopic analysis have enabled zooarchaeologists to explore previously unanswerable questions regarding past human and animal relationships. Stable isotope investigations using ancient bone and shell remains have the potential to assess a number of diverse social and biological topics, including diet and foodway practices, status and differential provisioning, exchange patterns, animal rearing and hunting techniques, biological consequences of domestication, and short and long term environmental changes. This session examines several applications of animal isotopic analysis from across the globe and from both prehistoric and historic eras.
Other Keywords
Zooarchaeology •
Isotope Analysis •
Isotopes •
isotope •
Maya •
Stable Isotopes •
Indus civilization •
bioarchaeology •
Migration •
Diet
Geographic Keywords
Europe •
Mesoamerica •
South Asia •
South America •
Central America •
North America - Southwest •
North America-Canada •
East/Southeast Asia •
West Asia
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- Documents (15)
- Biomolecular Approaches to Documenting Ancient Maya Turkey Husbandry and Use (2016)
- Discriminating Tastes: Intra-Species Variation in Exploited Fauna at Mycenae, Greece (2016)
- An Examination of Economic Specialization in the Early Bronze Age City of Tell es-Safi Using Isotopic Analysis of Ovicaprines (2016)
- Fodder and Water: Isotope Analysis of Livestock Enamel in Southwest Spanish Colonial Settlements in the Pimeria Alta (2016)
- From Scatterplots to Statistics: Identifying the Local Isotope Range in Multivariate Data (2016)
- Isotopes and Environments: Exploring Palaeoenvironmental Change during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic in the Cantabrian Region, Northern Spain (2016)
- Isotopic Evidence of Animal Management and Long-Distance Exchange at the Maya Site of Ceibal, Guatemala (2016)
- Lamb of God: Caprine use in a Jesuit Church in Early Colonial Ayacucho, Peru (2016)
- Land-Use and Social Networking of the Indus Civilization Explored with Stable Isotopes in Faunal Remains (2016)
- Large changes environmental changes following commercial whaling in the Eastern Canadian Arctic (2016)
- A Preliminary Isotopic Investigation into Ancient Maya Fish Trade (2016)
- Stable Isotopes and the Dynamics of Human-Animal Relationships (2016)
- Tethered, Ad Hoc, Resilient, or Structured? An Isotopic Investigation of Pastoral Strategies in Montane Ecosystems of Central Asia (2016)
- Understanding the Neolithic Transition: Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis of Subneolithic and Neolithic Animals and Inhabitants of the SE Baltic Coast (3200-2500 cal BC) (2016)
- Using Organic Compound-Specific Stable Isotope Ratios to Identify Animals in Prehistoric Foodways of Southeast Asia (2016)