Archaeological Fauna: US Southwest

This collection includes the faunal data sets and coding keys that were entered into tDAR as part of the NSF-funded (BCS--1153115) Resource Depression and Turkey Intensification project. Some of the datasets and all of the coding keys are currently publicly available. The remainder will become public at the end of the project in May 2015.

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex

Culture Keywords
Ancestral Puebloan

Investigation Types
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis

Material Types
Fauna

Temporal Keywords
1200-1500 C.E.

Geographic Keywords
U.S. Southwest

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  • A Faunal Taphonomic Protocol for the Southwestern US (2014)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Tiffany Clark.

    This document describes the development of a faunal taphonomic protocol for assessing inter-assemblage comparability in integrated analyses of Southwestern US faunal datasets.

  • LA199 Faunal Coding Sheet (1994)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Alison Rautman.

    Faunal coding sheet for excavations conducted in 1994 by Michigan State University at Kite Pueblo (LA-199)

  • Southwest fauna dataset information (2014)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Spielmann.

    This document lists the datasets in the SW FWG collection that are being used in the resource depression analysis and provides basic information such as NISP for these datasets.

  • Summary of the Context Analysis (2014)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Tiffany Clark.

    This is the final report on Tiffany Clark's analysis of variation in faunal discard across different contexts for eight of the assemblages used in the resource depression project.