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

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.