Animal Bones to Human Behavior

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Animal Bones to Human Behavior" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The goal of the session is to reinforce the value of zooarchaeology to problems and questions in archaeology. Faunal remains from archaeological sites are the result of, and largely reflect, human behavior. As such, the papers in this session will use faunal data from various geographic regions and time periods to explore, understand, and explain human behavior, activity, and decision making. The papers will provide links between faunal data, human activity, and accumulated deposits to explore the range of human adaptation.

Other Keywords
Zooarchaeology • Subsistence and Foodways • Historic • Human Behavioral Ecology • Political economy • Dogs • Urbanism • Colonialism • Landscape Archaeology • Trade and exchange

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • Republic of Bulgaria (Country) • Georgia (Country) • Europe (Continent) • Romania (Country) • Republic of Serbia (Country) • Republic of Moldova (Country) • United States of America (Country) • Republic of El Salvador (Country) • Belize (Country)

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Documents
  1. Animal Economies and Emergent Complexity in the European Bronze Age (2021)
  2. The Animal Subsistence System of Old Kingdom of Egypt (2021)
  3. The Archaeofaunal Dimension of Preceramic Human-Environment Dynamics in the Highlands of Southwestern Honduras (2021)
  4. Bones to Herds, and Back Again: An Investigation into Age-at-Death Models Used in the Analysis of Sheep (*Ovis aries) and Goat (*Capra hircus) Remains (2021)
  5. Canine Dental Damage and Dental Pathology as Indicators of Changing Haulage Roles during the Transition to Agriculture (2021)
  6. Caprines in the Cattle Zone: Reconciling Faunal Data at Two Scales during the Early Neolithic in the Sofia Basin, Bulgaria (2021)
  7. Contextualizing the Influence of Climate and Culture on Mollusk Collection: *Donax obesulus Malacology from the Jequetepeque and Nepeña Valleys, Peru (2021)
  8. Fish Body Size and Ancestral Pueblo Foraging Decisions in New Mexico, ca. AD 1350–1600 (2021)
  9. Meat on the Hoof: Isotopic Evidence of Administrative Herd Management at Khirbet Summeily, Israel (2021)
  10. Mesoamerican Cowboys: Exploring the History of Cattle Ranching in Colonial Mexico and Guatemala through Zooarchaeology (2021)
  11. Meta-analysis of the North Atlantic Cod Fisheries: The Zooarchaeology of the Sixteenth- to Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Cod Trade (2021)
  12. Reconstructing Animal Economies of Early Ireland in Transition (2021)
  13. Sacrifice, Meat Consumption, and Bone Working at the Curiae Veteres: Zooarchaeological Findings from the Sixth- and Fifth-Century BCE Levels of the Palatine-Pendici Nord-Est Excavations in Rome, Italy (2021)
  14. Taboo to Chew: Cultural Influences on Dog-Feeding (2021)
  15. Understanding Patterns of Indigenous White-tailed Deer (*Odocoileus virginianus) Exploitation in the North Carolina Piedmont Using Strontium (87Sr/86Sr) Isotope Analysis (2021)
  16. Using Zooarchaeology to Explore the Origins of Medieval Urbanism: Evidence from Badia Pozzeveri near Lucca, Antwerp, and Ipswich (2021)