Zooarchaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Hernández Castillo.

This is an abstract from the "A Movable Feast: Mobility and Commensalism in the Andes" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Coastal research has stressed the variety of systemic roles played by shell middens as architectural features, markers of the landscape/seascape, and as the result of the accumulation of food debris. The latter is the effect of concrete economic behavior; however, the exploitation and consumption of shellfish on coastal settings...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Monica Eckels.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Jones Miller site is a Bison antiquus kill site in Northeast Colorado near the town of Wray. The site was discovered by Robert Jones, Jr. in 1972, and excavated by Dennis Stanford at the Smithsonian Museum. The site is a thick, very large (approximately 36m by 40m) bone bed located in a former draw off the Arikaree River basin. The site dates to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kasey Cole. Jack Broughton. Lauren Hainsworth. Maren Moffatt. Alex Shumate.

This is an abstract from the "Behavioral Ecology and Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Variation in large-game hunting has long been viewed as a primary driver influencing many aspects of change in human behavior and biology worldwide. In western North America, variation in Holocene artiodactyl (e.g., bison, deer, pronghorn, bighorn sheep) hunting has often been examined from a behavioral ecological perspective to understand past...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay A Smith. Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman. Scott Oliver.

This is an abstract from the "Zooarchaeology, Faunal, and Foodways Studies" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Zooarchaeological evidence from James Madison’s Montpelier, spanning a century of occupation at the presidential plantation, provides an opportunity to explore the ecological impacts of the colonial plantation system in the Piedmont region of Virginia. From 1732 to 1836, enslaved labourers living throughout the property cultivated wheat,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Cannon.

Bringing the geologically historic record to bear on questions of ecosystem evolution is a goal emphasized in recent National Research Council reports. Within this context one species has become significant, the bison of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Recent expansion of the population, and its subsequent migration outside federal lands, has created concern among federal managers, local ranchers, and conservation groups. However, much of what is known about pre-management herds is based...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katheryn Twiss.

Diane Gifford-Gonzalez has written numerous zooarchaeological papers that wonderfully balance attention to both the ecosystemic and the cultural influences that shape how humans interact with animals. In a 2008 essay exploring zooarchaeology’s potential contributions to the study of daily life, she wrote that pastoralists’ herd management strategies are constructed in the contexts not only of regional ecosystems and animal biologies, but also of human economies, ideologies and politics. At the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Picard. Rachel McTavish.

The late prehistoric landscape of Southeastern Wisconsin was characterized by the dynamic interaction of at least three distinct ceramic cultures. The Aztalan site (47JE001) has yielded both Late Woodland and Middle Mississippian vessels dating between A.D. 1000-1200, indicating a period of cultural coexistence. At the nearby Crescent Bay Hunt Club Site (47JE904), in the Lake Koshkonong locality, Upper Mississippian Oneota ceramics have been recovered; no indication of a coexistent occupation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel McTavish. Lucienne Van de Pas. Amy Klemmer.

The manifestation of different cultural history trajectories of Late Prehistoric Oneota groups from eastern and western Wisconsin can be seen in multiple material classes, including faunal remains. Despite the generally similar use of shell as a ceramic tempering agent and generic vessel shapes, Wisconsin Oneota groups vary among localities in settlement and subsistence practices. The relationship among Oneota groups and wild rice, maize, aquatic and upland game, as well as the choice of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Lupo. David Schmitt.

This is an abstract from the "Do Good Things Come in Small Packages? Human Behavioral Ecology and Small Game Exploitation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Zooarchaeological applications of the Prey Choice Model (PCM) are often based on the assumption that prey body-size is a robust proxy for prey rank and post-encounter return rate. In zooarchaeological assemblages, co-variation in the abundances of large and small-sized prey are often viewed as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Neill Wallis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) is an ecological and cultural keystone species that has been exploited by humans for millennia. Oyster size is a good proxy for population health, and researchers frequently use valve height and length measurements from archaeological and paleontological contexts that provide baselines for assessing past human...

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. M. Breder, Jr..

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Mariela Declet Perez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Climate change, as a social and environmental stressor, has the potential to threaten food security by disrupting the functioning of ecosystems. This stress is particularly enhanced during intense, unexpected events that can trigger disasters. Precolumbian Caribbean societies faced these stressors through time as environmental changes linked to climate change...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Reed Coil.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Numerous extrinsic hypotheses explaining Out of Africa I, like faunal turnover and hominins following fauna, have been rejected based on paleoecological models. Others have explored the importance of the hominin intrusion into the carnivore guild. Here, I build on this hypothesis by proposing a complementary hypothesis; the scavenging corridor hypothesis...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tessa Plint. Lisa Hodgetts. Fred Longstaffe.

Stable isotope values obtained from modern faunal skeletal material often provide important comparative data in zooarchaeological investigations of past food-web dynamics and human-animal interactions. Unlike archaeological material, modern faunal material requires additional time-consuming preparatory work prior to analysis (i.e. defleshing). Cooking and the application of proteolytic enzyme are quick and effective methods, but it is unclear if these techniques alter original bone collagen...

DOCUMENT Citation Only S. Bokonki.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Konrad Smiarowski. Michael Nielsen.

This is an abstract from the "Climate and Heritage in the North Atlantic: Burning Libraries" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation is one of the products of a series of ongoing interconnected, international, interdisciplinary fieldwork projects coordinated by the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) research cooperative since 2005 in Greenland. The projects drew on more than a century of prior field research, where four...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robin Cordero.

This is an abstract from the "HumAnE Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent studies in avian biology have highlighted the plasticity of avian migratory flyways and location of wintering grounds for a range of taxa in response to agricultural production. This research provides a test of these studies to assess if pre-contact migrations in the American Southwest could have caused a shift in the wintering grounds of migratory birds along...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eduardo Corona-M. Ivonne Giles Flores.

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 European domestic fauna during the Spanish conquest represents a major change in the cultural use of animals, influencing both how they acquired and processed. Although this point has been recognized, in fact it has been poorly documented. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Derian.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances in Zooarchaeological Methods" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Highly fragmented assemblages are challenging for zooarchaeologists. Large numbers of morphologically unidentifiable specimens are time consuming to analyze and may yield little information relevant to project goals. Faced with an assemblage of 50,000 unidentifiable specimens from the Interior Plateau of British Columbia, I employed an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Rieth.

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. Archaeological investigations within Ka‘ūpūlehu Ahupua‘a on the leeward coast of Hawai‘i Island during the 1980s and 1990s generated a substantial assemblage of artifacts, faunal remains, and archaeobotanical samples. Kamehameha Schools, the landowner, has curated these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Mohlenhoff.

Many questions surround trends in prehistoric fisheries dynamics and fish use along the Pacific Coast of North America. Marine fish are particularly sensitive to changes in their environment, including variation in sea surface temperature that changes cyclically with the El Niño/Southern Oscillation. Trans-Holocene paleontological or archaeological sites with large faunal assemblages are the ideal tool for use in reconstructing these paleoenvironmental records. Here, I report preliminary data...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shibani Bose.

This is an abstract from the "Elephant Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Within the panoptic theme of elephant archaeology, this paper employs the prism of material remains to recapitulate the journey of the pachyderm in early Indian history and culture. In a land that is home to the largest population of Asian elephants, bones tell their own tales and so does iconography. While faunal remains affirm the antiquity and close association...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ran Barkai.

This is an abstract from the "Elephant Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this talk I will try to touch upon, and tie together, two major elements in early human adaptation, culture and perception – namely elephants and caves. Proboscideans presence in Paleolithic caves is manifested in two major ways: either as selected body-parts brought in from the hunt for human consumption, or as depictions on the cave’s walls. It is indeed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gary Haynes.

Dennis Stanford’s work at the Dutton, Selby, Lamb Spring, and Inglewood sites was a major part of his lifelong search for breakthrough evidence about North America’s earliest human encounters with mammoths. He encouraged me to study the megafaunal bones from those sites, and gave me room to disagree with him. His support allowed me to start looking into new ways to understand how the bones were modified and how such sites came to be. This presentation ties together data from those fossil sites...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vlad Litov.

This is an abstract from the "Elephant Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Allocation, procurement, and butchering of proboscideans and megaherbivores were significant to the subsistence of Lower Paleolithic hominins, supported by the persistent Acheulian toolkit. In the Levant, a faunal change around 400 thousand years ago, characterized by the declining availability of megaherbivores and the extinction of elephants, coincides with the...