"Bones are Not Enough": Research in Honor of Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)
Many prehistorians in Europe have used the long term as their default chronological perspective. A current ERC-funded project, 'The Times of Their Lives', is applying radiocarbon dating and a Bayesian framework for the interpretation of results to a series of case studies across the European Neolithic (sixth to third millennia cal BC) to push chronological precision to the scale of lifetimes and generations. The creation of much more precise timescales, however, still leaves the challenge of how to combine much more individual perspectives with the long term, in multi-scalar analysis. So this session seeks to explore, first, how far archaeology can go with refining its timescales, and secondly, how to combine multiple timescales. Papers will combine coverage of some key results from 'The Times of Their Lives' with comparative studies from North America.
Other Keywords
Zooarchaeology •
Pastoralism •
Subsistence •
Bone Tools •
Ecology •
Ritual •
Curation •
Hunter-Gatherers •
Fish Bones •
Mobility
Geographic Keywords
AFRICA •
North America - California •
South America •
North America - Southwest •
West Asia
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- Documents (11)
- Big reasons to eat small fishes: Nutritional composition and subsistence decisions along California’s Central Coast (2015)
- Ecology, ceremony, and animal bones from southern Mesopotamia (2015)
- Fish, Fishing, and Fish Bones on the central California Coast (2015)
- The Future of Zooarchaeological Collections in Twenty First-Century Scholarship (2015)
- Migrations and Exchange: Early Pastoral Mobility in Kenya Assessed Through Stable Isotope Analysis (2015)
- Nutrient hotspots and pastoral legacies in East African savannas (2015)
- On why we still need ethnoarchaeology (2015)
- Parallel Practices: The importance of joining creative action and the sciences in the work and legacy of Diane Gifford Gonzalez. (2015)
- A Saint Jude’s Box for Zooarchaeologists In the Making (2015)
- What’s in the Oven? Specialized Processing, or Mixed Food Preparation in the Chumash Kitchen (2015)
- Zooarchaeologial inferences and analogical reasoning at Chavin de Huantar (Peru) (2015)