Frontiers in Animal Management: Unconventional Species, New Methods, and Understudied Regions

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Frontiers in Animal Management: Unconventional Species, New Methods, and Understudied Regions," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Humans have a long history of shaping the lives of animal species who share their environments in order to extract a variety of primary and secondary products. The significance of animals to human communities encouraged both human migration, and the introduction of these taxa to new environments. Archaeology is uniquely positioned to explore the mechanics and results of this relationship through human history and prehistory. This session explores the dynamic relationship between human and animal populations, emphasizing studies on unconventional species, new methods or approaches, and understudied regions or time periods. The topics investigated may include, but are not limited to transhumance, demographics, captive management, selective breeding or harvesting, and the specialized use of animal taxa for traction or other secondary products.

Other Keywords
Zooarchaeology • Historic • Historical Archaeology • Butchery • Trade and exchange • ancient DNA • Ancestral Pueblo • contact period • Iron Age • Morphometrics

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • United Mexican States (Country) • Belize (Country) • Republic of Guatemala (Country) • United States of America (Country) • Republic of El Salvador (Country) • Cayman Islands (Country) • Republic of Honduras (Country) • Republic of Cuba (Country) • Jamaica (Country)

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  • Archaeogenomic Evidence from the American Southwest Points to a Pre-Hispanic Scarlet Macaw Breeding Colony North of the Endemic Neotropical Range in Mexico between 900 And 1200 CE (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard George. Stephen Plog. Adam Watson. Kari Schmidt. Douglas Kennett.

    This is an abstract from the "Frontiers in Animal Management: Unconventional Species, New Methods, and Understudied Regions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hundreds of scarlet macaw skeletons have been recovered from archaeological sites across the American Southwest and northwestern Mexico. The location of these skeletons more than 1,000 km outside their Neotropical endemic range has suggested a far-reaching pre-Hispanic acquisition network....

  • Bodies Shaping Bodies: Using Butchery to Trace Human-Animal Relationships (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Evin Grody.

    This is an abstract from the "Frontiers in Animal Management: Unconventional Species, New Methods, and Understudied Regions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While our relationship encompasses far more than just the dinner menu, food is one of the key ways in which human and animals lives and bodies directly shape one another. Indeed, beyond just the act of eating, how human and animal bodies meet in the context of procurement and processing can...

  • Ethnoornithological and Genomic Perspectives on Royal Hawaiian Featherwork (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalia Przelomska. Adrienne Kaeppler. Jim Groombridge. Logan Kistler. Rob Fleischer.

    This is an abstract from the "Frontiers in Animal Management: Unconventional Species, New Methods, and Understudied Regions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hawaiian featherwork constitutes a treasured element of Hawaiian cultural heritage. Feather artefacts curated in museums today were acquired between the late 18th and the early 20th centuries and it is clear that their production required thousands of feathers sourced from Hawaiian forest...

  • Exploring Hare Introductions and Management (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Tom Fowler. Carly Ameen. Naomi Sykes.

    This is an abstract from the "Frontiers in Animal Management: Unconventional Species, New Methods, and Understudied Regions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological studies of animal management have traditionally focused on domestic livestock, such as cattle, sheep/goat and horses. Within farming societies, less attention has been paid to wild animals - particularly smaller taxa, such as lagomorphs. Evidence suggests that the brown hare...

  • Maya Butchers in Santiago de Guatemala: A Technological Analysis of the Disassembling of Cattle in Colonial Guatemala (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolas Delsol.

    This is an abstract from the "Frontiers in Animal Management: Unconventional Species, New Methods, and Understudied Regions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In colonial Guatemala, cattle constituted a vital element of Hispanic lifestyles through the supply of meat but also by providing basic materials necessary to a multitude of crafts. By the mid-sixteenth century, this flowering industry was thriving thanks to the rapid growth of herds. While the...

  • Pioneering Poultry: A Morphometric Investigation of Domestic Chickens (Gallus gallus) in Preindustrial North America (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin Welker. Alison Foster. Eric Tourigny.

    This is an abstract from the "Frontiers in Animal Management: Unconventional Species, New Methods, and Understudied Regions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chicken bones are common in many historic faunal assemblages. Historic accounts indicate that domestic chickens introduced to North America by European colonists did well and multiplied quickly, but provide little information on the origins, characteristics, or roles poultry played in the North...

  • Spatiotemporal Analysis of Regional and Sub-regional Dog Size Data in Pre-Columbian North America (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Jones. Martin Welker.

    This is an abstract from the "Frontiers in Animal Management: Unconventional Species, New Methods, and Understudied Regions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent genetic research (Lethlohair et al. 2018) showed that dogs were introduced into North America over as many as four migration events. The first two were by Native Americans and the third and fourth by Europeans. In light of these findings, our research seeks to describe and explain the...