intrusive rodents, taphonomy, zooarchaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Franklin. Caitlin Ainsworth. Emily Lena Jones.

Archaeological sites are attractive places for burrowing rodents, but determining which specimens are intrusive can be a challenge. The fauna from the 2013 re-excavation of Room 28, due to its complex depositional history and rich rodent assemblage, provides an opportunity to explore different methods of identifying intrusive rodents in archaeological sites. In this paper, we use four lines of evidence to identify intrusive remains from human subsistence activity: 1) frequency of surface...