Zooarchaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ginessa Mahar. Kenneth Sassaman.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Schollmeyer.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik Martin. Joan Brenner Coltrain. Brian F. Codding.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Krigbaum. Christina M. Giovas. George D. Kamenov.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xin Yu. Hailin Liu. Chunxue Wang.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hailin Liu. Xin Yu. Chunxue Wang.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chong Yu.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Noe.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Freeburg.

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....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Delia Hoyt. Hannah Lau. Lacey Carpenter. Colin Quinn.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryan Hockett.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tongli Qu.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hilary Hilmer.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adrianne Daggett. Lu-Marie Fraser.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Atilio Zangrando. Augusto Tessone. Angélica Tivoli. Jonathan Nye. Suray Perez.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carol Colaninno. Carla Hadden. Maran Little.

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....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hollis Miller.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Logan Van Hagen. Douglas Dvoracek. Laurie Reitsema. Carol Colaninno-Meeks.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy J. Mulligan. Franklin F. Snelson, Jr..

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Autumn Painter. Jeffrey Painter. Jodie O'Gorman. Terrance Martin.

This is an abstract from the "Interactions across the North American Midcontinent" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Violent interaction between people of the Oneota and Mississippian traditions in the Central Illinois River Valley in the North American Midcontinent ca. 1300–1400 CE at Norris Farms #36 is a clear example of intermittent, low-scale warfare. One aspect of initial interpretations of the interaction, based on evidence for raiding of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Max Price.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Cities: Perspectives from the New and Old Worlds on Wild Foods, Agriculture, and Urban Subsistence Economies" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Livestock are widely recognized as fundamental features of the political economies of ancient Near Eastern states. Animals served as “wealth on the hoof,” the strategic resources of urban institutions seeking to expand aspects of the subsistence economic to finance...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Baquedano.

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. Frogs and toads were important animals in Mesoamerica with several species of Mexican frogs. They were especially associated with the rainy season. Some species of frogs are active above ground only in the reproductive period while some species of toads spend part of the year underground. These batrachians are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Britt Starkovich.

An ongoing faunal analysis at Kephalari Cave documents a remarkable standardization in the butchery of small game animals during the Upper Paleolithic. The site spans several phases of occupation, including small Middle Paleolithic, early Upper Paleolithic, and Aurignacian components, but the majority of the materials are from the post-Aurignacian Upper Paleolithic, Epigravettian, and late Upper Paleolithic (possibly Mesolithic) periods. Diverse ungulate taxa are found at the site, but the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Fahey. Kelsi Stroebel. Olivia Boss. Curtis Marean.

This is an abstract from the "Human Origins Migration and Evolution Research Consortium Poster Symposium" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In zooarchaeological analysis, there is a tendency to give point-provenienced ecofacts analytical priority over ecofacts found in sieved material. To test for the effects of this bias, we conducted a zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of faunal ecofacts (n = 841) found in the 10 mm sieved material from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Burtt.

This is an abstract from the "Animal Bones to Human Behavior" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dog-feeding strategies employed by Indigenous North Americans vary across place and time. Human restrictions on prey animal parts given to dogs have been recorded in the ethnohistoric record. Dog feeding taboos are transcultural and often speak to ideas of a dog’s place among other animals and the influence dogs may have on the predator-prey relationship...