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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Faunal remains"”.
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Paleopathology in archaeological faunal remains: a new approach
… literature on non-human archaeological animal remains since the mid 19th century. In the last 20 years the accumulation of research into human skeletal remains has engendered a dynamic palaeopathological science producing highly valid in sights into the condition of people of antiquity. These …
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Listen to the Bones: An Analysis of the Variation within the Faunal Remains at the Bridge River Site
Analysis of faunal material from the 2008 and 2009 excavations at the Bridge River site (EeR14) show that variation exists within the assemblages, particularly through time between the occupation phases of Bridge River 2 and Bridge River 3. The data show that reliance on anadromous salmon …
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Listen to the Bones: An Analysis of the Variation within the Faunal Remains at the Bridge River Site
Analysis of faunal material from the 2008 and 2009 excavations at the Bridge River site (EeR14) show that variation exists within the assemblages, particularly through time between the occupation phases of Bridge River 2 and Bridge River 3. The data show that reliance on anadromous salmon …
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Animals and the economy of medieval Ireland: a zooarchaeological analysis of the faunal remains from Caherconnell Cashel, Co. Clare
… assemblages of other bio-environmental remains, and contextual and dating information. This project is part of a major inter-disciplinary study of Caherconnell, involving a collaboration with University of Galway with excavations directed by Dr Michelle Comber of the Caherconnell …
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RELATING TAPHONOMIC ANALYSIS OF BISON REMAINS TO CULTURAL AND SPATIAL INFERENCE: A STUDY OF THE FAUNAL REMAINS FROM THE TONGUE RIVER BUFFALO JUMP SITE (24RB2135)
… and Dr. Thomas Foor. This site yielded 20,359 faunal remains, 2 of which were radiocarbon dated in order to assess the time frame of the bone beds discovered and well as to reconstruct the activities that created the bone bed(s). The radiocarbon dates suggest multiple kill events, ranging from …
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RELATING TAPHONOMIC ANALYSIS OF BISON REMAINS TO CULTURAL AND SPATIAL INFERENCE: A STUDY OF THE FAUNAL REMAINS FROM THE TONGUE RIVER BUFFALO JUMP SITE (24RB2135)
… and Dr. Thomas Foor. This site yielded 20,359 faunal remains, 2 of which were radiocarbon dated in order to assess the time frame of the bone beds discovered and well as to reconstruct the activities that created the bone bed(s). The radiocarbon dates suggest multiple kill events, ranging from …
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Hunting and herding in a semi-arid region : an archaeozoological and ethological analysis of the faunal remains from the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic of the eastern Jordanian steppe.
This thesis focuses on the faunal remains from a sequence of 11 Epipalaeolithic and ten Neolithic sites in the eastern Jordanian steppe, with the aim of investigating the subsistence practices of hunters and herders between 20,000bp and 7,500bp, and their temporal and geographic variability within …
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Faunal Analysis and Comparative Study of Mont Repose Plantation
… yielded an array of artifacts including numerous faunal remains. Species recovered thus far include domestic species such as cow, pig, and chicken. The wild species represented within the collection include deer, opossum, raccoon, fish, bird, turtle, and alligator. By comparing the findings from …
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Early human adaptation in the northern hemisphere and the analytic implications of taphonomy
A comparative analysis is presented of faunal remains from six archaeological and six palaeontological open-air sites dating to the Lower and Middle Pleistocene. The presumed causal association between lithic tools and faunal remains at these early sites is evaluated, as is the presumed primary or …
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A Spatial Analysis of 24HL1085: A Prehistoric Site in the Bear's Paw Mountains
… patterns created by the excavated lithics, faunal remains, and fire cracked rock (FCR). I also wanted to show that understanding the spatial layout of FCR is just as important as understanding the spatial layout of lithics and faunal remains. In order to complete this analysis the three ring …
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A Spatial Analysis of 24HL1085: A Prehistoric Site in the Bear's Paw Mountains
… patterns created by the excavated lithics, faunal remains, and fire cracked rock (FCR). I also wanted to show that understanding the spatial layout of FCR is just as important as understanding the spatial layout of lithics and faunal remains. In order to complete this analysis the three ring …
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The St. Louis site (FfNk-7) and the Below Forks site (FhNg-25) : the faunal analysis of two mummy cave series and Oxbow Complex sites in central Saskatchewan
… (8400-4590 rcybp). For this thesis only the faunal remains from the upper four occupations were analysed which contained the Mummy Cave Series and Oxbow Complex occupations. The Below Forks site is located two kilometres east of the confluence of the North and South Saskatchewan rivers. This …
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Airport Rings: Stone Circle Archaeology In Yellowstone National Park
… lithic artifacts, including stone tools, and faunal remains. The Airport Rings Site was the first stone circle site to be excavated inside Yellowstone National Park.
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Airport Rings: Stone Circle Archaeology In Yellowstone National Park
… lithic artifacts, including stone tools, and faunal remains. The Airport Rings Site was the first stone circle site to be excavated inside Yellowstone National Park.
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The fossil Bovidae of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans And Kromdraai
… Excavation at these sites has yielded abundant faunal remains, including hominids, as well as stone artefacts.For a comprehensive review of various aspects of these sites the reader is referred to Brain (1958). The many hundreds of cranial fragments, belonging to the mammalian family Bovidae …
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Broken Bones and Cutmarks: Taphonomic Analyses and Implications for the Peopling of North America
… of stone tools and reportedly containing the remains of butchered proboscideans are considered inadequate evidence for a pre-Clovis occupation by some researchers. Before utilizing modified faunal remains as proxies for a human presence in the Americas, a thorough understanding of the ways in …
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Case Studies in Ancient Maya Human-Animal Relations: El Perú, La Corona, and Commensal Mammals
… and rich ideological inspiration. To date, faunal studies among the Maya have been more limited than other types of archaeological investigations, leaving much still unknown about how human-animal relations varied across time and space. This study utilizes zooarchaeological, iconographic, …
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Akrotiri Aetokremnos and the Cypriot Pygmy Hippopotamus: An Interdisciplinary Look at a Late Pleistocene Large Mammal Extinction
… interdisciplinary analyses surrounding the faunal remains of the Cypriot pygmy hippopotamus at this site, in an attempt to create a more holistic picture of the dynamics of this event and parse out the potential relative impacts of climate change and humans. First, a morphological comparison …
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Analyse de la répartition spatiale des restes fauniques du site éémien de Caours (Somme). Apport des systèmes d'information géographique.
… This site show an incredible conservation of faunal remains spread out over a large area and a recurrence Human occupation. That gave us a large amount of data about this period of Neanderthal history. We now questioning about the choice of this locality and the spatial organisation of …
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In service of the king: The form, function, and chronology of courtyard A-3 at Chan Chich, Belize
… water jugs, bifaces, recycled spear points and faunal remains were uncovered at the site. Structures A-23 and A-25 were multi-roomed substructures with thatch roofing constructed during the Late Classic period (600-810 CE) and occupation continued into the Terminal Classic period AD (810-900 CE).
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