ANTH 312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Phalanx Bone, Crustacean, Dentin
20 Feb 2015
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Two basic goals of zooarchaeological analysis: reconstruction of hominid subsistence patterns, including, human diet, animal procurement strategies: ex. Northern canada, aggressive especially in mating season (sept-aug) form defensive circles calves inside, strong males out (how they were killed social structure of hunter-gatherer society i. Putting yourself in danger, kill one rest run off, stand and guard any wounded animal especially calves. Or isolation and killing of individual animals: predator-prey relationships: ex. Tools, social organization, butchery site: the kill and processing sites from which just certain parts of the whales were taken. Measuring taxonomic abundance (proportion of each different taxon within an assemblage: what taxa provided the most economic resources, and which taxa the least, of the available resources? (preference) initial goal of zooarchaeology. Nisp: number of identified specimens of one taxon: this is the most fundamental unit of determining taxonomic abundance, and the starting point of any zooarchaeological analysis (every fragment that you can identify)
