Zooarchaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie C. Stewart-Abernathy. Barbara Ruff.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth S. Wing. L. Jill Loucks.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Nerissa Russell.

Dogs often occupy a spiritually ambiguous position in human-animal relations. Domestic but not livestock, they typically share human space and diet more than most herd animals. They are more likely to be considered persons, with souls – a trait they share with wild animals. Here I examine the spiritual status of dogs in early Near Eastern herding societies, as livestock-keeping spread through the region and it became possible to situate dogs in relation to other domestic animals as well as wild...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce Manzano. Renee Bonzani.

This is an abstract from the "Broader Impacts and Teaching: Engaging with Diverse Audiences" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Active participation and hands-on analysis and activities in college-level classes can draw students with diverse interests into classes of archaeology. To move away from straight lecturing about archaeological principles, the authors developed a class on paleoethnobotany and zooarchaeology that actively involves students...

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

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Burtt.

In this paper, Dental Microwear Texture Analysis is used to evaluate the teeth of dogs recovered from Late Prehistoric sites to investigate the idea that these animals had their natural diets modified by their human counterparts. This study compares microwear from wolves (Canis lupus) and coyotes (Canis latrans) to that of archaeological dogs recovered from various sites that represent human mobile groups of the Northwestern Plains and Rocky Mountains. Varied practices have been described in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas McGovern.

In 1257 a major volcanic eruption in modern Indonesia produced rapid cooling in the North Atlantic region, and multiple climate proxies indicate onset of summer sea ice in Danmark Strait and N Iceland followed ca. 1260-1300. Zooarchaeological and paleoclimate research has documented the impacts of summer sea ice onset in the Norse Greenlandic settlements (Ogilvie et al. 2009), and documentary sources from Iceland report weather-related famine in the 1270’s. An archaeofauna excavated in 2011 from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brittany Mistretta. Michelle LeFebvre.

This is an abstract from the "The Intangible Dimensions of Food in the Caribbean Ancient and Recent Past" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Food is a biological necessity, but it is also created and used through culturally defined practices and perceptions, including capture, cultivation, and/or collection, preparation, consumption, disposal, and even secondary deposition. This paper challenges us to think more critically about how we identify,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aleksa Alaica.

The herding of camelids in the pre-Columbian past impacted daily and ritual life of peoples residing there. During the Late Moche period of Peru, camelid herding was a major factor in the trade and exchange of goods, people and ideas. The extent of herding and the degree of camelid breeding in the coastal desert has been understudied. This paper will discuss the patterns in camelid age profiles and pathologies to inform the extent to which camelids where traveling along the coast and into the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cheryl Claassen.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An exploratory look at Helmet shell use during the Woodland period and Busycon columella "wind jewels" in the Mississippian period. The investigation is informed by Mesoamerican shell symbolism.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gillian Wong. Dorothée Drucker. Britt Starkovich. Nicholas Conard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Late Glacial (~18-11.6 k cal yr BP), Magdalenian peoples recolonized southwest Germany, which was uninhabited during the Last Glacial Maximum (~27.2-23.5 k cal yr BP). Past research has generally characterized the landscape in this region as tundra or steppe during this time but making smaller-scale interpretations can be difficult due to the nature...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Canan Cakirlar.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Two species from different domestication centres – the Bactrian camel from central Asia and the Dromedary from Arabia – were deliberately brought together and bred to create new, more powerful, animals. Larger than both parents and double the strength of its contributory species, the hybrid camel was the world’s first engineered hybrid transportation. Creating the hybrid camel required...

DOCUMENT Citation Only August Costa. Jonathan Lohse. Stephanie Orsini.

Bison and pronghorn are taxa that have relatively high visibility in the archaeological record of the southern Plains. Understanding when bison and pronghorn were present in regions located in the southern Plains periphery is important for our general knowledge regarding bison/pronghorn ecology, climate, and environmental change in North America, as well as providing insights into human responses during these periods. Previous studies of the extent and timing of bison expansion into the southern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Napora. Michael Detisch. Jessica Jenkins. Martin Gallivan. Christian Davenport.

This is an abstract from the "*SE Hope for the Future: A Message of Resiliency from Archaeological Sites in South Florida" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present exploratory analyses of subannual environmental proxy data from a variety of freshwater, estuarine, and marine mollusk species from South Florida and the broader US Southeast. Using modern baseline specimens as well as specimens from archaeological contexts analyzed via microscopy and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Lehner.

This is an abstract from the "Breaking the Mold: A Consideration of the Impacts and Legacies of Richard W. Redding" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How Richard Redding's identification of a hippopotamus hip bone catalyzed a rethinking of the Heit el-Ghurab site of 4th Dynasty (ca. 2500 BCE) settlement at the Giza Pyramids, and how central authorities mobilized and organized labor for building pyramids.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Watson. Nathan Hamilton. Robin Hadlock Seeley.

Interactions between traditional European culinary practices and North American fauna have been the focus of several archaeological studies during the past few decades, but have not been explicitly examined in northern New England, especially during later colonial occupation (ca. 1800-1900). The Laighton hotel on Smuttynose Island (Isles of Shoals, ME), site of nineteenth- and twentieth-century activity, reveals how domestic practices were changed during the later hotel era (1847-1914)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gerald Schroedl. Callie Bennett. Ann Ramsey. Todd Ahlman.

Research at Brimstone Hill Fortress (1690 to 1854) focuses on comparative studies of the eighteenth century lifeways of British soldiers and enslaved Africans. The St. Kitts colonial government and British Royal Engineers designed the fort, and enslaved and free Africans constructed and maintained it. Excavations in areas occupied by British Army officers, enlisted soldiers, and enslaved Africans have produced substantial faunal remains. Especially revealing is the use of imported and local...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hope Loiselle.

Wide-scale excavations were undertaken in the middens at Seaside, Oregon in the 1960s and 1970s. However, due to the overwhelming amount of faunal material, much of it remains unanalyzed. This project focuses on the material from the Par-Tee midden (35CLT20). The only cetaceans analyzed from this midden are whales, leaving a knowledge gap about prehistoric human interaction with smaller cetaceans, such as dolphins and porpoises. Using the cetacean comparative and reference collection at the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cristina Oliveira. Michelle LeFebvre. Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz. Victor Thompson. Michael Buckley.

This is an abstract from the "Past Human-Shark Interactions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sharks are among the world’s most endangered vertebrate taxa, including recent estimates of approximately 71% loss in abundance over the past 50 years due to human impacts. Zooarchaeological baselines of shark diversity, distribution, and exploitation hold great promise for contributing essential historical context in the assessment of contemporary patterns...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yuko Shiratori. Carolyn Freiwald.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research in the Petén Lakes Region, Petén, Guatemala" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Petén lakes region, Guatemala, has a rich and diverse ecology and abundant locally available resources including terrestrial, amphibious, and aquatic animals. The Postclassic (1100–1525 CE) sites in this region are mainly located on the lakeshore, suggesting that the Postclassic people were attracted to the lakeshore...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Szpak. Christyann Darwent. John Darwent.

This study presents stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions for zooarchaeological specimens from three sites in Inglefield Land (northwestern Greenland) representing approximately the last 1,000 years. Isotopic compositions for planktivorous seabirds (little auks, Alle alle) reveal general stability in biogeochemical cycling at the base of the food web since the end of the Medieval Warm Period. On the other hand, marine mammals (ringed seal, bearded seal, walrus) exhibit variable...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan deFrance.

The zooarchaeology of historical contexts in New Orleans has benefited significantly from analyses conducted by Dr. Elizabeth Reitz and her students and colleagues. Several of these analyses were conducted as part of cultural resource management projects that were primarily site specific. I present a comparative analysis of various zooarchaeological projects from New Orleans contexts to examine the contribution of Reitz and others to our understanding of past food practices, animal economics,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Wallman.

The arrival and colonization of the Caribbean by Europeans beginning in the 15th Century transformed the already dynamic landscapes of the region. To accommodate the slave-labor supported colonial plantation system and its orientation towards market exports, the region witnessed the introduction of exotic plants and animals, creating a ‘creolization’ of flora and fauna. In this paper, I discuss how environmental archaeology contributes to a nuanced and diachronic understanding of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arthur E. Bogan. Neil D. Robison.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Lyman.

North American zooarchaeologists believe that prior to 1970, most zooarchaeological reports were laundry lists—lists of taxa identified, perhaps with abundance data. Laundry lists make up 68 percent of titles published between 1900 and 1959; 24 percent of titles published between 1960 and 1979 are laundry lists. Some laundry lists concern samples so small that one should not expect more than a list of identified species; other laundry lists were produced by zoologists who had no knowledge of...