Methodological Advances in Isotopic Zooarchaeology

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

This session will explore new methodological advances in isotopic analysis using ancient animal remains to address key questions in human prehistory. Isotopic investigations in zooarchaeology have the potential to address diverse social and biological topics, including diet and foodway practices, hunting and procurement strategies, status and differential provisioning, exchange patterns, animal rearing and husbandry, biological consequences of domestication, and short and long term environmental changes. Examining these topics in past archaeological contexts is essential for understanding animal and human interactions in the present. Development of new methodologies in concert with traditional zooarchaeological analyses allow us to examine questions and issues regarding human ecology and environmental archaeology that were previously inaccessible.

Other Keywords
Zooarchaeology • Stable Isotopes • stable isotope analysis • Stable isotope • isotope • Maya • Paleoenvironment • Chaco Canyon • Human Ecology • Mobility

Geographic Keywords
Republic of El Salvador (Country) • Belize (Country) • Republic of Guatemala (Country) • North America (Continent) • Mesoamerica • United Mexican States (Country) • Department of Martinique (Country) • Department of Guadeloupe (Country) • Antigua and Barbuda (Country) • Anguilla (Country)

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  1. The cultural ecology of Croatia’s cattle: stable isotope and zooarchaeological analyses of an indigenous breed (2017)
  2. Faunal management and human-landscape interactions at Ifugao, Luzon, Philippines (2017)
  3. Influence of animal proxy choice on use of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen stable isotope ratios for determining past environmental variables (2017)
  4. Isotopic analyses of predatory pelagic fishes show significant environmental change in Lake Ontario following European settlement (2017)
  5. Isotopic Evidence for Long-Distance Mammal Procurement, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, USA (2017)
  6. Isotopic Perspectives on Animal Husbandry Practices (2017)
  7. Isotopic tracking of trophic relationships (predation, competition, commensalism) between paleolithic humans and predators (2017)
  8. Lead (Pb) Isotope Analysis as a Means of Tracking Animal Migration and Trade in Mesoamerica (2017)
  9. Stable isotope analysis of animal diets at the Postclassic regional capital of Mayapan (2017)
  10. Stable isotopic (δ13C and δ18O) and zooarchaeological insights into vertical transhumance of early Neolithic domesticated sheep and goats in southern Jordan (2017)
  11. Subsistence variations and landscape use of marine foragers in southern South America. New perspectives from an isotopic zooarchaeology (2017)
  12. Theoretically informed isotope analysis: human-animal relationships at Fishbourne Roman Palace (2017)
  13. Using stable isotopes to explore ancient wildebeest mobility in the context of pastoral expansion (2017)
  14. The Zooarchaeology and Isotopic Ecology of the Bahamian Hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) (2017)