Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: VanDerwarker, Amber M. (Editor), Peres, Tanya M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Botany.; Zoology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Plant Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0935-0

In recent years, scholars have emphasized the need for more holistic subsistence analyses, and collaborative publications towards this endeavor have become more numerous in the literature. However, there are relatively few attempts to qualitatively integrate zooarchaeological (animal) and paleoethno...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• On Methodological Issues in Zooarchaeology
• Interpreting the Meaning of Macrobotanical Remains: Issues, Promises, and Synergies
• Correspondence Analysis and Principle Components Analysis as Methods for Integrating Archaeological Plant and Animal Remains
• Methods and Meaning? An Approach for Incorporating Sea and Land Based Subsistence Resources into Archaeological Interpretations
• Tracking Hides and Corn: Methods for Evaluating Salinas Pueblo Responses to Spanish Tribute Demands
• Illusions of Change: Middle to Late Woodland Subsistence-Settlement Patterns in the Saginaw Valley of Michigan
• Big Bash in the Bottom: Integrating Animals and Plants from Cahokias Sub-Mound 51 Borrow Pit
• Integrated Contextual Approaches to Understanding Past Activities Using Plant and Animal Remains from Formative Sites in the Titicaca Basin, Bolivia
• Investigations of Paleobotanical and Zooarchaeological Data from Dust Cave, Alabama
• Potluck on the Platform Mound: Communal Consumption in a Classic Hohokam Community
• Farmed and the Hunted: Integrating Floral and Faunal Data from Tres Zapotes, Veracruz.