Beyond Consumption: Evidence for Animal Bone Use in Music, Art, and Ritual in Texas

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Animal bone was utilized for more than subsistence purposes. Most non-subsistence use has been focused on utilitarian tools. Bone-use beyond subsistence and utilitarian tool use is rarely identified or considered for its cultural impact or implications. Often it is difficult to identify in the archaeological record, and is frequently overlooked, with its functionality beyond subsistence ignored within Texas archaeological assemblages. Faunal material from two sites in Dallas County, Texas (41DL433 and 41DL434) are compared and contrasted. The two sites are in close proximity and may represent concurrent usage and a cultural association to each other. Findings of the faunal analysis are discussed and the data indicating connections to non-subsistence activities including ritual, music, and art presented.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39523.0