Caribbean Archaic Faunal Exploitation: Analysis of Museum Collections

Summary

This is an abstract from the "How to Conduct Museum Research and Recent Research Findings in Museum Collections: Posters in Honor of Terry Childs" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Yale Peabody Museum curates one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive archaeological collections from the greater Caribbean region. These collections were acquired during a multi-decade research program on the culture history of the region. While the focus of that research was chronology and artifact analysis, the collections contain unmodified faunal remains, both vertebrate and invertebrate, that can provide data on a variety of research topics. This poster describes the history of recovery of collections from Cuba, quantified vertebrate faunal data, and radiocarbon dates. Because of relatively limited access to archaeological sites in Cuba during the past 50 years, the data from museum collections help fill gaps in our knowledge of Caribbean prehistory.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• How to Conduct Museum Research and Recent Research Findings in Museum Collections: Posters in Honor of Terry Childs   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24161