Zooarchaeology (Other Keyword)
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At the Srubnaya-culture settlement of Krasnosamarskoe in the Russian steppes, dated 1900–1700 BCE, a ritual occurred in which the participants consumed sacrificed dogs, primarily, and a few wolves, violating normal food practices found at other sites, during the winter. At least 64 winter-killed canids, 19% MNI/37% NISP, were roasted, fileted, and apparently were eaten. More than 99% were dogs. Their heads were chopped into small standardized segments with practiced blows of an axe on multiple...
Dogs, Diners, and Deposition: The Social Role of Canis lupus familiaris in Cruz B Households in Etlatongo, Nochixtlán, Oaxaca (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents a comparative faunal analysis from two distinct Early Formative households from Etlatongo, a multicomponent site located within the Nochixtlán Valley of the Mixteca Alta in Oaxaca. The faunal remains from several different contexts were analyzed; these contexts represent routine domestic refuse and those from a...
Domestic Animal Use at St. Inigoes Jesuit Plantation (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Plantations in the Southern United States functioned on a system of power over enslaved Africans that is reflected in the material culture of daily life. Zooarchaeological analysis of the fauna from St. Inigoes plantation in St. Mary’s County Maryland provides insight into what everybody on the plantation was eating, and the work enslaved peoples performed...
Domestication and its Discontents (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Unfinished Business and Untold Stories: Digging into the Complexity of ‘Animal Domestication’" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How we study domestication often gets in the way of conceptualizing what we’re actually interested in studying. Vere Gordon Childe’s Man Makes Himself offers few details about the process of plant and animal domestication, noting that people “began to... cultivate” certain plant species and...
Domestication Rewilded: A Framework in Eight Dimensions for Parsing Domestication Concepts Across Disciplines (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Unfinished Business and Untold Stories: Digging into the Complexity of ‘Animal Domestication’" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Most scholars now agree that domestication involves intertwined biological and socio-cultural factors, though tend to favour one or the other ‘side’ according to their disciplinary position. Such binary understandings of domestication, constrained by classic distinctions between ‘nature’ and...
Drawing from the Past to Inform the Future: Exploring 500 Years of Skagit River Salmonidae Abundance (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recovery plans and goals for Pacific northwest salmon, trout, and char (Oncorhynchus spp., Salmonidae) seek to conserve and restore these keystone species throughout the Salish Sea and its watersheds. Archaeological data offer a window into past Salmonidae life-histories and can provide a long-term record of the species and their relative...
Dressed to Kill: Richly Adorned Animals in the Offerings of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Animal Symbolism in Postclassic Mesoamerica: Papers in Honor of Cecelia Klein" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the course of four decades, the Templo Mayor Project (1978–2018) of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has excavated more than two hundred offerings in the area corresponding to Tenochtitlan’s sacred precinct. These rich Mexica deposits from the fourteenth, fifteenth, and...
Dried Fish Trade and the Social and Political Landscape of Viking Age Iceland (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Governance and Globalization in the North Atlantic", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Evidence of small, non-independent dwelling sites on Hegranes, located in Skagafjörður, north Iceland, dates back to the Viking Age settlement of the region. These sites specialized, among other things, in the production of dried gadid fish products which were an early artisanal precursor to the more standardized stockfish...
Dynamic Island Environments: Melinda Allen's Contributions to the Study of Coastal Geomorphology and Pacific Island Colonization and Settlement (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives on Oceanic Archaeology: Papers to Honor the Contributions of Melinda Allen" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Melinda Allen's contributions to Pacific Island archaeology are far-reaching and varied. Her study on the application of evolutionary theory to fishhook design had a substantial impact on the application of evolutionary principles to understanding variability in artifact...
Early Animal Use in Rural New Spain: Comparing Trends and Practices in Sixteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Indigenous and Spanish Settlements from Michoacán, Northwestern Mexico (2024)
This is an abstract from the "The Columbian Exchange Revisited: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Eurasian Domesticates in the Americas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The massive introduction of European animals in what is today Mexico started in 1519 and historical documents attest for the rapid spread of livestock, in particular cattle, in the vast plains of the Altiplano that helped colonize the lands. Yet, there is a lack of...
Early Bronze Age Animal Use at Lajia, a Qijia Culture Site in Qinghai Province, China. (2015)
The faunal remains from Lajia, a late Neolithic and early Bronze Age site in northwestern China, reveal that sheep, a newly introduced domesticate during this time period, are the central source of meat for the site’s residents. This represents a shift from earlier modes of subsistence in the region, which were focused on pig husbandry. Sheep were the most common domesticate in the Lajia assemblage, followed by pigs and cattle. An examination of age profiles reveals that mature adult sheep...
Early Colonial Livestock in the Northern Neck: A View from Coan Hall (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Land Unto Itself: Virginia's Northern Neck, Colonialism, And The Early Atlantic", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the early 17th century, European colonists introduced new livestock and agricultural practices to Virginia which developed into unique management and farming practices. These practices had significant influence on the development of environmental and cultural spheres of interaction within the...
Early Domestic Dogs in North America and Their Origins (1974)
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Early Domestic Horse Exploitation in Southern Patagonia: Archaeozoological and Biomolecular Evidence from Chorrillo Grande 1, Argentina (2024)
This is an abstract from the "The Columbian Exchange Revisited: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Eurasian Domesticates in the Americas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The introduction of domestic horses following Spanish colonization transformed Indigenous societies across the grasslands of Argentina, leading to the emergence of specialized horse cultures across the Southern Cone. However, the relatively late establishment of...
Early evidence of post-mortem fetal extrusion in equids: A case from the Western Zhou period site of Yaoheyuan in northwestern China (2025)
This is an abstract from the "New Thoughts on Current Archaeological Research in Neolithic and Bronze Age China" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We analyzed horse remains from a chariot-horse pit (CMK2) associated with elite burials at the Bronze Age site of Yaoheyuan in northwestern China. Among the horses interred in this specific pit, one adult female and one infant show evidence of post-mortem fetal extrusion. This conclusion is based on an...
Early Farming Communities in East Africa and the Horn: new zooarchaeological evidence from Mezber, northern Ethiopia (2017)
Animal herding formed a central component of pre-Aksumite (>800 B.C.E – 450 B.C.E) and Aksumite (450 B.C.E-800 C.E.) subsistence economies in the North Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands. Despite this, detailed understanding of animal utilization and diversity of species is lacking for this period. New data on species abundance and radiocarbon date from the site of Mezber in the North Ethiopian highland throws a new light on the earliest mixed farming communities in the Horn of Africa over the...
Early Herding Practices in Tanzania Revealed through Strontium Isotope Analysis (2019)
This is an abstract from the "African Archaeology throughout the Holocene" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. East African pastoralists today rely on extensive social networks through which livestock are exchanged to maintain herds. The role of such animal exchange networks among ancient pastoralist communities can be revealed through stable isotope analysis. Pastoral Neolithic sites are broadly distributed across southern Kenya and northern Tanzania....
Early Pastoralists in Tanzania: Mobility and the Seasonal Round (2018)
First developing around 8,000 years ago, pastoralism in Africa has continued as a flexible and dynamic mode of subsistence. One key feature of this dynamism is mobility, which is crucial for many East African pastoralists today to access seasonally available pasture and water. In areas of unpredictable rainfall, mobile pastoralism permits more people to live in dry lands than do other subsistence strategies. How the earliest herders in Tanzania used the landscape is still relatively unknown....
Early Thule Inuit Architecture in the Arctic: An Anchor in Migration and Movement (2019)
This is an abstract from the "More Than Shelter from the Storm: Hunter-Gatherer Houses and the Built Environment" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During and for a few hundred years after the Thule Inuit migration around AD 1200, early Thule groups in the North American Arctic established village sites in new locations where they maintained a similarity in ceremonial architecture, house form, and division of space, despite the variability of...
Early Upper Palaeolithic Technical Behaviour at Apidima (Peloponnese, Greece): Technological Analysis of the Lithic Assemblage from Cave C (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Variability within the Aurignacian: New Research Outlooks" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Apidima cave complex (Caves A-E, Peloponnese, Greece) is among the most significant Palaeolithic sites in south-eastern Europe. Two fossilized human crania recovered from Cave A in the 1970s-80s, indicate the presence of an early H. sapiens population followed by a Neanderthal one in the Middle Pleistocene. Important...
The Easter E.g. - Changing Perceptions of Cultural and Biological "Aliens" (2018)
Human immigration and biological invasions are high-profile topics in modern politics but neither are modern phenomena. Migrations of people, animals and ideas were widespread in antiquity and these are frequently incorporated into expressions of cultural identity. However, the more recent the migrations, the more negative modern attitudes are towards them. In general, native is perceived as positive and 'natural', whereas the term 'alien' is attached negatively to cultural and environmental...
Eastern Oneota Ecology at the Dawn of History: Stable Isotope Perspectives (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous Eastern Oneota groups inhabited the Prairie Peninsula region of Midwestern North American for several centuries. It is widely known they used maize and wild resources from a variety of different ecosystems. The ecosystems they used are usually inferred through site-catchment analysis or the presence of faunal and floral remains from different...
Eastern Washington Faunal Database Project (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We have created a database of faunal assemblages from the eastern half of Washington state, compiled from reports through ~2023, with taxonomic identifications, age estimates, and locations. So far there are 482 archaeological assemblages with reported genus or species NISP, from 329 discrete sites, with a total of 66,502 NISP. Some 298 assemblages have...
Eat This In Remembrance: The Zooarchaeological Analysis of Secular and Religious Estancias in 17th- Century New Mexico (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the early colonial period of New Mexico (1598-1680) secular and religious governing bodies developed simultaneously to manage the colony, the colonists, and the indigenous people already residing in the region. One of the resulting differences between secular and religious households was in labor rules and structure, especially regarding the Pueblos and other conscripted or...
Eating Cats and Dogs: Understanding the Collapse of an Early Urban Settlement in the Northern Negev Desert from a Faunal Perspective (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The site of Tell el-Hesi was an Early Bronze Age III (2900-2500 B.C.E.) urban community located in the peripheral region of the Northern Negev Desert in the Southern Levant. Notably, the occupation was short-lived (ca. 100-150 years) and rapidly abandoned before the end of the EB III period, demarcated by drier environmental conditions. Unlike most urban...