A Contextual Analysis of the Homol'ovi I Fauna

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In the Pueblo Southwest, ethnographies documenting Indigenous-animal interactions have been used to derive sets of expectations about how Ancestral Pueblo-animals relationships may have appeared in the past. This literature has primarily been used to predict the roles (e.g., subsistence, ritual) and depositional contexts (e.g., structure type) of animals within archaeological contexts. This poster aims to compile and test ethnographic expectations of faunal depositional contexts using zooarchaeological data generated from the faunal assemblage recovered from Homol’ovi I, a Pueblo IV period village located in northeastern Arizona. By correlating faunal composition with room type (e.g., storage rooms, ritual rooms, habitation rooms, etc.) we can gain further insight into how the deposition of taxa was structured in the past by Ancestral Pueblo peoples. Furthermore, deviations in the data from predicted patterns allow for discussion of how faunal deposition may be structured by other factors, such as room fill.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37554.0