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Investigating animal trade, transport, and translocation in the precolonial Caribbean: New isotopic and zooarchaeological evidence (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason Laffoon. Till Sonnemann. Menno Hoogland. Gareth Davies. Corinne Hofman.

Investigations of the dynamic relationships between humans and (non-human) animals are of interest to a broad range of scientific disciplines throughout the world. In the Caribbean, the complexities of island biogeography, transportation technologies, and human agency converge to condition the spatial distribution of both humans and animals. This region has long been characterized as relatively impoverished in higher order species diversity and scarcity of domesticated animals, yet the...


There are Many Kinds of Fish in the Sea: Zooarchaeology and Ancient DNA Insights into 19th-century Chinese Diaspora Fisheries (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Ryan Kennedy. Brian M. Kemp.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Late-19th-century Chinese diaspora faunal assemblages from the American West often include a diverse range of fish species imported from many different locations. In these contexts, fish bones serve as evidence not only of the wide-ranging trade networks that connected Chinese diaspora communities, but also of...