Malacology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert H. Ray.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Sharpe. Kitty Emery. John Pfeiffer.

For over a century, the taxonomy of the Central American freshwater mussels (family Unionidae) has been the subject of numerous classifications and reclassifications, with naturalists identifying morphologically identical taxa as different genera or species, while at the same time classifying obviously distinct taxa under the same name. Zooarchaeologists at the mercy of these erratic classification schemes have been unable to effectively compare datasets. This study uses a combined...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Prentice M. Thomas, Jr.. L. Janice Campbell. Steven R. Ahler.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Milena Guzman Garcia. Sintia Santisteban. Michelle Watanave. Aldo Watanave.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations at Huaca Menocucho in the Moche Valley, Peru, revealed occupation sequences from the Initial period to the Middle Horizon with large amounts of malacological remains. Quantitative, qualitative, and comparative analyses are being conducted to interpret the role of gastropods, bivalves, and other mollusks at the site. A quantitative analysis will...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John D. Speth. William J. Parry.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Pournelle.

Prevailing theories of the evolution of early complex societies in southern Mesopotamia presume a uniform, arid landscape transited by Tigris and Euphrates distributaries. These theories hold that it was the seventh millennium BCE introduction of irrigation technologies from the northern alluvium to the south that began the punctuated evolution of Mesopotamian irrigation schemes. In this view, irrigation-dependent agro-pastoral production was the primary stimulus to urbanization and, millennia...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roger Sierra. Traci Ardren. William Pestle.

The Stock Island site (8MO2), located in the southernmost Florida Keys, was a black dirt midden affiliated with the Glades tradition. Construction of the Monroe County Detention Center in the 1980s destroyed the site, necessitating the uncontrolled and uncontextualized recovery of a large quantity of ceramics and faunal (osteological and malacological) remains. Unprovenienced collections from this salvage work reside in numerous repositories across the state of Florida. In this work, we present...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Garay. Isabel Rivera-Collazo.

Mollusks recovered from archaeological sites reflect decisions made by individuals in the past, changes in the environment through time, and the interactions between people and landscapes. Therefore, archaeomalacological analyses can help to reconstruct paleoenvironments and to identify changes in consumption practices. Changes should be particularly evident when considered from a deep-time perspective. In this presentation we will be evaluating samples from three archaeological sites spanning...