Lagomorph (Other Keyword)
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Small mammal remains, rodents, lagomorphs and insectivores, are commonly found within archaeological sites. However, presence does not equate to cultural use. Small mammals can become part of the archaeological record because of natural death, pitfalls, raptors and mammalian carnivores; as well as human use. Here these processes are compared and three main criteria are suggested for differentiating the cultural from non-cultural processes – environmental, archaeological context, and bone...
A Preliminary Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Houck Sites in Northeastern Arizona (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. American Southwest zooarchaeological analyses have established that ancestral communities employed or interacted with a wide-range of species, with dietary focus on rabbits and deer. Working with Museum of Northern Arizona curated collections of previously excavated faunal assemblages from the Houck sites, this poster presents the preliminary data...
Understanding Depositional Processes: A Contextual Analysis of Lagomorph Remains from Aztec and Salmon Ruins (2016)
On numerous projects, faunal analysts have speculated to the amount of rabbit (Lagomorph) remains deposited by human-related processes. Previous studies have failed to fully investigate potential differences in the treatment of Lagomorph remains between cultural and natural deposits. This project investigates evidence of human processing of Lagomorph remains from two Pueblo II/III Great Houses in the Middle San Juan region of northwestern New Mexico: Aztec and Salmon Ruins. The primary research...