Celebrating 20 Years of Support: Current Work by Recipients of the Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship for Zooarchaeologists
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Celebrating 20 Years of Support: Current Work by Recipients of the Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship for Zooarchaeologists" at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
For 20 years, the Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship has been awarded to women early in their graduate education, with a focus on zooarchaeology. It is competitive, international in scope, and unbounded by time or cultural focus. The fellowship is unique in that it is the only SAA award specifically supporting women researchers, the only award for students early in their graduate study, and one of the few awards available anywhere that aims at developing an archaeological subdiscipline. While such an award may be considered risky, Dienje knew full well the hurdles faced by women at this stage of their career, and was set on providing support. The fellowship has been given to scholars from around the world conducting research on diverse topics and cultures through the lens of zooarchaeological analysis. In testament to their hard work, most of the 19 award recipients have continued in archaeology and many have completed PhDs and embarked on successful careers as zooarchaeologists. This symposium is organized specifically to highlight the success and current research of award recipients over the last 20 years.
Other Keywords
Zooarchaeology •
Political economy •
Historic •
Paleolithic •
Environment and Climate •
Taphonomy and Site Formation •
Resilience and Sustainability •
Maya: Postclassic •
Political ecology, colonialism •
Pleistocene/Holocene transition
Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Utah (State / Territory) •
Nevada (State / Territory) •
California (State / Territory) •
USA (Country) •
North America: California and Great Basin •
United Mexican States (Country) •
Peten (State / Territory)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-4 of 4)
- Documents (4)
-
Avifauna of the Bonneville Basin: Past Variation and Future Conservation (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only
This is an abstract from the "Celebrating 20 Years of Support: Current Work by Recipients of the Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship for Zooarchaeologists" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The final regression of Lake Bonneville during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition resulted in dramatic environmental changes in the Bonneville basin, followed by further environmental fluctuations throughout the Holocene. Recent research of faunal and floral...
-
In a Shade of Colonial Expansion: The Subsistence Strategies and Consumption Practices in Black Star Canyon, Southern California (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only
This is an abstract from the "Celebrating 20 Years of Support: Current Work by Recipients of the Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship for Zooarchaeologists" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Puhu (Ca-Ora-132), a Native American settlement located in the Santa Ana mountains of California, has been remembered as a unique place of conflict centered around animal utilization. In 1831, Puhu was attacked and defeated by American fur trappers after the...
-
The Inside/Outside Connection: A Spatial Analysis of Faunal Remains from Contact Period Maya Elite Structures at Lamanai, Belize (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only
This is an abstract from the "Celebrating 20 Years of Support: Current Work by Recipients of the Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship for Zooarchaeologists" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the colonial period, the Maya living in frontier zones retained much of their community-level sociocultural and hierarchical systems. At Lamanai, Belize, recent excavations of three elite residences provide an opportunity to examine the relationship between...
-
A New Semi-quantitative Method for Identifying Carnivore-Specific Chewing Damage Patterns (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only
This is an abstract from the "Celebrating 20 Years of Support: Current Work by Recipients of the Dienje Kenyon Memorial Fellowship for Zooarchaeologists" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hypotheses of hominin scavenging from different felid species have been proposed, but the ability to distinguish between the taphonomic patterns inflicted by different felid species in the fossil record is currently underdeveloped. Previous efforts to identify...