Finest Fare: Faunal Analysis of the Glen Eyrie Midden Assemblages

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Glen Eyrie Middens: Recent Research into the Lives of General William Jackson and Mary Lincoln “Queen” Palmer and their Estate in Western Colorado Springs, Colorado." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

               Excavations at two middens associated with the Glen Eyrie Estate (sites 5EP7334 and 5EP7352) have yielded a robust assemblage of well-preserved faunal remains.  Represented taxa include a variety of bony fish, avian species, domestic mammals, and wild game.  Faunal analyses of the assemblages indicate regular consumption of domestic fowl and bovid products with intermittent consumption of pork, wild game, and imported fish and shellfish; other identified specimens include non-food animals indigenous to the canyon, such as bobcat and owl.  Measurements of relative abundance, age, and taphonomic observations, particularly butchery, were examined for changes in consumption habits. This paper summarizes the results of the faunal analyses, which provide a baseline for upper-class meat consumption in Colorado at the turn of the century (1870s to mid-1910s).

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020   •
• The Glen Eyrie Middens: Recent Research into the Lives of General William Jackson and Mary Lincoln “Queen” Palmer and their Estate in Western Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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PaperId(s): 595