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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the course of British settlement in Tidewater Virginia, colonists were challenged to adapt European farming and husbandry practices to suit the environment of the New World. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, these practices continually evolved as Virginia shifted from a tobacco- to wheat-based agricultural system. In...
Stable isotopic (δ13C and δ18O) and zooarchaeological insights into vertical transhumance of early Neolithic domesticated sheep and goats in southern Jordan (2017)
Vertical transhumance provides livestock with consistent access to quality graze throughout the year and likely contributed to the intensification of livestock husbandry in the Near East over ten thousand years ago. Here, carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) isotopic time series obtained from sequentially sampled domesticated and wild herbivore teeth recovered from late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (ninth millennium cal BP) settlements, each located in the sharply divergent elevations of southern Jordan,...
Stable oxygen isotopic evidence of mobility and site seasonality on the northern Gulf of Mexico, USA (2015)
Stable oxygen isotope analyses are commonly used in archaeology to assess the seasons-of-death of fishes and molluscs, and to make inferences about seasonal aspects of human mobility and resource use. We present stable oxygen isotope sequences from 33 bivalve shells, representing four taxa, and eight fish otoliths, representing two taxa. These were recovered from two sites located on the Gulf Coast of Alabama: Plash Island (AD 325–642) and Bayou St. John (AD 650–1041). Specimens recovered from...
Stable-Isotope Analysis and Dental Micro-Wear Texture Analysis of Domestic Dogs from the Tennessee River Valley (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Zooarchaeology and Technology: Case Studies and Applications" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Southeastern United States, the relationship between indigenous peoples and their domestic dogs is known to be long and complicated. Dog burials and dog skeletal remains are ubiquitous from archaeological sites in the region from as early as 7,000 years ago through the Historic Period. A previous paleopathology study of...
Stalking the Bison: Changing Perspectives in the Zooarchaeology of Big Game Hunters of the Great Plains (2023)
This is an abstract from the "A Tribute to the Contributions of Lawrence C. Todd to World Prehistory" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the mid-1980s, Lawrence Todd and colleagues published influential, groundbreaking research in Great Plains zooarchaeology. Todd’s pioneering research established innovative methodological and analytical approaches to studying archaeofauna, focusing on large multi-animal bonebeds representing potential kill and...
Stark Variation: New Insights into Dire Wolves and their Interactions with Humans (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Human Interactions with Extinct Fauna" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dire wolves are an iconic extinct Pleistocene species in the Americas and their interactions with humans at Paleoindian sites has been largely unknown. Here we explore potential interactions between dire wolves and Paleoindians at sites in the San Pedro Valley, Arizona. We also present new radiocarbon dates and the results of our ancient DNA...
Stop Seeing Like a State: Relational Complexity among Small-Scale Societies of Gulf Coastal Florida (Who Routinely Gathered in Large Numbers) (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Complex Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers of North America" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Interventions of modern nation-states in the affairs of "underdeveloped" nations often fail for imposing standard categories on highly variable and historically situated local practices. The same might be said about scholarship on "complex" hunter-gatherers. Rather than oversimplifying by imposing order vis-à-vis state-level criteria...
Strange Birds: Avian Remains in the Upper Gila and Mimbres Drainages (2018)
Bird remains are seldom abundant in archaeological assemblages in the Mimbres region of southwest New Mexico. Despite their relatively low frequency, many of the occurrences of bird remains in this area are derived from interesting or unusual archaeological contexts, and provide a wealth of information on cultural practices and local and regional environmental conditions. This study examines data from over 70 archaeological assemblages from the upper Gila area and elsewhere in the Mimbres...
Stratigraphic integrity and large game hunting at Hogup Cave, Utah. (2015)
Utah’s Hogup Cave is an iconic example of the exceptional preservation and cultural depth present at Great Basin dry cave sites and has recently featured prominently in the debate related to the ascendancy of large game hunting in the late Holocene. However, concerns related to the stratigraphic integrity of the site has largely inhibited analysis of the cave’s assemblage since the site’s excavation and initial analysis in the late 1960’s. We utilize 15 new radiocarbon dates in conjunction with...
Straying from the Flock: A Stable Isotope Analysis of a Sheep Membrane Condom from Colonial Maryland (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents a stable isotope analysis of a membrane condom from the colonial Oxon Hill Manor Site (18PR175) in Maryland to shed light on the geographic origins of the artifact. Previous analysis using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) identified the condom as having been made from a sheep. The addition of stable carbon and nitrogen...
Strontium and Lead Isotope Evidence for Paleomobility of Introduced Fauna in the Southern Caribbean (2015)
Increasingly, studies seeking to understand the interconnectivity of pre-Columbian Caribbean island societies have employed isotopic approaches to identify the movement of peoples and goods between islands and continents. These investigations advance reconstructions of mobility and exchange, and their social context, by providing robust data on the non-local status of archaeological remains and their ultimate origins. Here we report on the results of strontium (87Sr/86Sr) and lead isotope...
Study on Animal Remains Excavated from G1 of Dongshantou Site in Da'an, Jilin Province, China (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Da'an Dongshantou is a fine stone cultural site in the Neolithic period. A large number of animal skeletons were found in site G1, totaling 2,456, including mollusks, fish, birds, and mammals. Statistics and analysis of the individual and population of the animal skeletons unearthed from site G1 provide clues for restoring the ecological environment of the...
A Study on the Animal Remains Unearthed from the Jirentaigoukou Site in Nilka, Xinjiang, China (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Jirentaigoukou site in Nileke, Xinjiang is an important Bronze Age site in the Ili River area of Xinjiang. From 2015 to 2016, the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology excavated the Jirentaigoukou site and cemetery in Nileke County. A total of more than 1,000 animal skeletons were unearthed in the two excavation years, all of which were...
Study on the subsistence of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age China using published mammal records (2017)
This research is based on all published zooarchaeological study on Chinese Neolithic and Early Neolithic sites and mainly focuses on the animal subsistence economy in the same period. With the advent of quantitative analysis, refined models can now be built and analyzed from all the published data. The application of big data studies on animal remains provided information of range and relative importance of taxa and their possible change through time-scale and region which may reflect an ancient...
Subsistence and Persistence: Understanding Indigenous Foodways within Mission Santa Clara de Asìs, Alta California (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Colonization significantly impacted Indigenous foodways in Alta California, resulting in the intentional rearticulation of certain practices amidst new economic, political, new social realities. Recent excavations at the ranchería at Mission Santa Clara de Asís (CA-SCL-30H) yielded faunal assemblages associated with subsistence...
Subsistence and Settlement at Cape Krusenstern, Alaska (2015)
A group of recently discovered features from Cape Krusenstern, Alaska have yielded radiocarbon ages within both the Western Thule and Kotzebue culture periods. Results of preliminary faunal analyses indicate the presence of fish bone in proportions higher than have been previously reported for other Cape Krusenstern settlements. This paper reviews and assesses the zooarchaeological data from these features and provides comparisons to known archaeological subsistence practices of the region....
Subsistence and Space within an Historical Central New York Household (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Food is a foundational element of people’s everyday lives. The remains of what people did and did not eat can provide data as to how people lived, both within a household and as a society. This is true for historical assemblages, where physical remains can provide a more concrete picture of past lifeways than historical records alone. This poster...
Subsistence Diversity During the Western Stemmed Tradition in the Intermountain West (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Current Perspectives on the Western Stemmed Tradition-Clovis Debate in the Far West" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We have learned more about Western Stemmed subsistence patterns in the Intermountain West over the past decade than we learned during the previous half century. Remarkable subsistence assemblages recovered from sites such as Bonneville Estates Rockshelter, Paisley Cave 2, Weed Lake Ditch, Little...
Subsistence in the Late Pleistocene of China: A view from Laonainaimiao site (2017)
The paper presents the taphonomic and zooarchaeological analyses of the fauna from the Laonainaimiao site of Late Pleistocene in the central plain area of China. The taphonomy observation shows that the bones were accumulated by human activity. The taxa of the fossil assemblage is composed mainly of Equidae and Bos primigenius, followed by gazelle, deer, wild boar, rhinoceros etc. Most carcasses of Equidae and Bos were likely to be transported to the site as a whole. The carcasses were...
Subsistence Practices at Healy Lake Village Site (2018)
Healy Lake Village site (XBD-00020), an important multicomponent site with occupations spanning the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene, provides an important opportunity to address fundamental issues of sub-arctic hunter-gatherers economies as they changed through time. To date, there are a limited number of sites in former Beringia with preserved faunal remains. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) is an analytical method that can confirm the visual identifications of burned bone as...
Subsistence Technology in Early Iron Age Botswana (2018)
Analysis of the faunal assemblage from Thabadimasego, an Early Iron Age site in northeastern Botswana, contributes to the growing notion that hunting played a larger-than-expected role in the subsistence pattern of the area’s communities. Beyond understanding what they ate, what do the faunal remains tell us about the subsistence technology of Botswana’s Early Iron Age? Recent studies have focused on metallurgy and ceramic technology, but faunal patterns can provide information on the use of...
Subsistence variations and landscape use of marine foragers in southern South America. New perspectives from an isotopic zooarchaeology (2017)
Predictions based on resource distribution and abundance throughout patches (i.e. patch choice model) are critical to model human-specific decisions. However, information about past abundance or distribution of preys is rare, and archaeological evaluations are normally based on modern ecological parameters. This procedure can face some problems since species distributions are likely to have fluctuated along time as a consequence of different environmental factors, or as the product of human...
Subsistence, Landscape, and Identity as Explored through Archaeofaunal Remains from Northwestern Florida (2016)
This paper explores relationships among subsistence, landscape, and identity on the northern Gulf Coast of Florida. Zooarchaeological assemblages from three Woodland-period shell midden sites (8BY1347, 8BY1355, 8BY1359), all located on a small (150 km2) peninsula in Bay County, Florida, differ in molluscan species composition reflecting proximity to varied marine and estuarine habitats. Coastal dwellers had flexible subsistence regimens, targeting local habitats rather than specific resources....
Sugpiaq Foodways during the Russian Colonial Period: Zooarchaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives from Old Harbor, Alaska (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Coastal Environments in Archaeology: Ancient Life, Lore, and Landscapes" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sugpiaq/Alutiiq peoples have millennia-long relationships with the coasts and waters of the Kodiak Archipelago, from which they harvest a variety of marine mammals, fish, shellfish, sea birds, and coastal plants. Harvesting and preparing these foods remain important ways of life in Sugpiaq/Alutiiq villages, such as...
Sulfur Isotope Ratios of Terrestrial and Coastal Fauna on the Southeastern Coast: A Step toward Resolving Equifinality in Human Paleodiet Reconstructions (2018)
Sulfur isotope ratios in human bone collagen are used in paleodiet reconstructions to distinguish between marine- and terrestrial-based diets, because sulfur isotope ratios in marine organisms are typically higher. However, natural phenomena such as sea spray, rain, and flooding can deposit sea water sulfates on land that are bioavailable to plants and terrestrial animals. Comparing sulfur from archaeological deer and fish-eating raccoons from sites both in close proximity to the coast and...