Recent Advances in Chinese Zooarchaeology

Faunal remains have become important materials unearthed from archaeological excavations in China. Zooarchaeological data could provide much information of human-animal interactions in the past, such as animal trading and exploitation, utilization and domestication. New studies on those recovered faunal remains have used a variety of analytical methods such as morphological measurements, pathological examination, age structure profiling, sex ratio reconstruction, isotopic analysis and DNA research to target many different questions. This session provides a platform to showcase some of these new studies from China and to demonstrate the power of using new methods to examine old bones for the study of human-animal interactive history of the past in China.