Archaeology Is Anthropology, but Did Zooarchaeology Really Listen?

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Thinking about Eating: Theorizing Foodways in Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The study of animal bones is an important contributor to many areas of archaeology, specifically in areas such as domestication, climate change, human/environment interactions, etc. However, when looking at the broader lens of anthropological theory as well as the burgeoning food studies movement, archaeology evidence is only infrequently part of those discussions. The argument put forward is that while zooarchaeology has contributed much to understandings of the past, the range of contributions is somewhat limited. The challenge moving forward as we continue to theorize food is to expand collective thinking so that zooarchaeology contributes in a more robust manner across the theoretical spectrum of anthropology.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Thinking about Eating: Theorizing Foodways in Archaeology

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Abstract Id(s): 33503