Methodological Advances in Isotopic Zooarchaeology
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)
This session will explore new methodological advances in isotopic analysis using ancient animal remains to address key questions in human prehistory. Isotopic investigations in zooarchaeology have the potential to address diverse social and biological topics, including diet and foodway practices, hunting and procurement strategies, status and differential provisioning, exchange patterns, animal rearing and husbandry, biological consequences of domestication, and short and long term environmental changes. Examining these topics in past archaeological contexts is essential for understanding animal and human interactions in the present. Development of new methodologies in concert with traditional zooarchaeological analyses allow us to examine questions and issues regarding human ecology and environmental archaeology that were previously inaccessible.
Other Keywords
Zooarchaeology •
Stable Isotopes •
stable isotope analysis •
Stable isotope •
isotope •
Maya •
Paleoenvironment •
Chaco Canyon •
Human Ecology •
Mobility
Geographic Keywords
Republic of El Salvador (Country) •
Belize (Country) •
Republic of Guatemala (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
Mesoamerica •
United Mexican States (Country) •
Department of Martinique (Country) •
Department of Guadeloupe (Country) •
Antigua and Barbuda (Country) •
Anguilla (Country)
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The cultural ecology of Croatia’s cattle: stable isotope and zooarchaeological analyses of an indigenous breed (2017)
Stable isotopic (δ13C and δ18O) and zooarchaeological insights into vertical transhumance of early Neolithic domesticated sheep and goats in southern Jordan (2017)