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This leading textbook introduces students and practitioners to the identification and analysis of animal remains at archaeology sites. The authors use global examples from the Pleistocene era into the present to explain how zooarchaeology allows us to form insights about relationships among people and their natural and social environments, especially site-formation processes, economic strategies, domestication, and paleoenvironments. This new edition reflects the significant technological developments in zooarchaeology that have occurred in the past two decades, notably ancient DNA, proteomics, and isotope geochemistry. Substantially revised to reflect these trends, the volume also highlights novel applications, current issues in the field, the growth of international zooarchaeology, and the increased role of interdisciplinary collaborations. In view of the growing importance of legacy collections, voucher specimens, and access to research materials, it also includes a substantially revised chapter that addresses management of zooarchaeological collections and curation of data.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Zooarchaeology; 2. Zooarchaeological history and theory; 3. Basic Biology; 4. Ecology; 5. Collections, curation, and dissemination; 6. Disposal of faunal remains and sample recovery; 7. Gathering primary data; 8. Secondary data; 9. Humans as predators: subsistence and other uses of animals; 10. Domestication; 11. Evidence for former environmental conditions; 12. Zooarchaeology in the twenty-first century; Appendix 1. Taxonomic list; Appendix 2. Anatomical drawings; Appendix 3. Hypothetical Collection Data; Bibliography; Systematic Index; Topical Index.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Elizabeth J. Reitz is Professor Emerita at the University of Georgia. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of the International Council for Zooarchaeology Committee of Honor, and recipient of the Society for American Archaeology Fryxell and Southeastern Archaeological Conference Lifetime Achievement awards.Barnet Pavão-Zuckerman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maryland. She is a recipient of the Society for American Archaeology's Outstanding Public Archaeology Initiative Award, and the Society for Historical Archaeology's Gender and Minority Affairs Committee Diversity Field School Award.Elizabeth S. Wing is Curator Emerita at the University of Florida. She is a National Academy of Sciences inductee, International Council for Zooarchaeology Committee of Honor member, and recipient of the Society for American Archaeology Fryxell Award and the University of Florida's President's Medallion.
