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An Introduction to Zooarchaeology / by Diane Gifford-Gonzalez.

Gifford-Gonzalez, Diane, author.
2018
CC1-960
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Title
An Introduction to Zooarchaeology / by Diane Gifford-Gonzalez.
Author
Gifford-Gonzalez, Diane, author.
ISBN
9783319656823
3319656821
9783319656809
3319656805
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65682-3
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 604 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-65682-3 doi
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CC1-960
Dewey Decimal Classification
930.1
Summary
This volume is a comprehensive, critical introduction to vertebrate zooarchaeology, the field that explores the history of human relations with animals from the Pliocene to the Industrial Revolution. The book is organized into five sections, each with an introduction, that leads the reader systematically through this swiftly expanding field. Section One presents a general introduction to zooarchaeology, key definitions, and an historical survey of the emergence of zooarchaeology in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and introduces the conceptual approach taken in the book. This volume is designed to allow readers to integrate data from the book along with that acquired elsewhere within a coherent analytical framework. Most of its chapters take the form of critical "review articles," providing a portal into both the classic and current literature and contextualizing these with original commentary. Summaries of findings are enhanced by profuse illustrations by the author and others.
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Section 1: An Orientation to Zooarchaeology
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Emergence of Zooarchaeology
Chapter 3. A Perspective on Zooarchaeology
Section 2: The Evidence- Vertebrate Bodies
Chapter 4. Bone and Vertebrate Bodies as Uniformitarian Materials
Chapter 5. Bone's Intrinsic Traits: Why Animals Eat Animals
Chapter 6. Bone's Intrinsic Traits: Inferring Species, Sex, and Age
Chapter 7. Bone's Intrinsic Traits: Age Estimation from Mammalian Dentition
Section 3: Basic Practical Approaches
Chapter 8. Field Recovery, Lab Methods, Data Records, Curation
Chapter 9. Identification: Sorting Decisions and Analytic Consequences
Chapter 10. Zooarchaeology's Basic Counting Units
Section 4: Identifying Causal Process, Effector, Actor
Chapter 11. Human, Animal, and Geological Causes of Bone Breakage
Chapter 12. Mammalian and Reptilian Carnivore Effects on Bone
Chapter 13. Avian Carnivore, Ungulate, and Effects on Bone
Chapter 14. Primary Human Effects: Cutting Edge and Percussion Effects on Bone
Chapter 15. Culinary Processing and Preservational Effects on Bone
Chapter 16. Invertebrate, Plant, and Geological Effects on Bone
Section 5: Studying Behavioral, Social, Ecological Contexts
Chapter 17. Analyzing Multi-Agent Assemblages
Chapter 18. Reasoning with Zooarchaeological Counting Units and Statistics
Chapter 19. Skeletal Disarticulation, Dispersal, Dismemberment, Selective Transport
Chapter 20. Calibrating Nutritionally Driven Selective Transport
Chapter 21. Calibrating Bone Durability
Chapter 22. Zooarchaeology and Ecology: Mortality Profiles, Species Abundance, Diversity
Chapter 23. New Ecological Directions: Isotopes, Genetics, Historical Ecology, Conservation
Chapter 24. Behavioral Ecology and Zooarchaeology
Chapter 25. Social Relations through Zooarchaeology
Conclusion
Chapter 26. Doing Zooarchaeology Today and Tomorrow.

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