An introduction to zooarchaeology. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Diane Gifford-Gonzalez.
• Authors: Gifford-Gonzalez, Diane (Diane Patrice)
• Contents: Part I. An orientation to zooarchaeology. 1. Introduction ; 2. The emergence of zooarchaeology ; 3. A persepctive on zooarchaeology -- Part II. The evidence -- vertebrate bodies. 4. Bone and vertebrate bodies as uniformitarian materials ; 5. Bone's intrinsic traits : why animals eat animals ; 6. Bone's intrinsic traits : inferring species, sex, and age ; 7. Bone's intrinsic traits : age estimation from mammalian dentition -- Part III. Basic practical approaches. 8. Field recovery, lab methods, data records, curation ; 9. Identification : sorting decisions and analytic consequences ; 10. Zooarchaeology's basic counting units -- Part IV. Identifying causal process, effector, actor. 11. Human, animal, geological causies of bone breakage ; 12. Mammalian and reptilian carnivore effects on bone ; 13. Avian carnivore, ungulate, and effects on bone ; 14. Primary human effects : cutting edge and percussion effects on bone ; 15. Culinary processing and preservational effects on bone ; 16. Invertebrate, plant, and geological effects on bone -- Part V. Studying behavioral, social, ecological contexts. 17. Analyzing multi-agent assemblages ; 18. Reasoning with zooarchaeological counting units and statistics ; 19. Skeletal disarticulation, dispersal, dismemberment, selective transport ; 20. Calibrating nutritionally driven selective transport ; 21. Calibrating bone durability ; 22. Zooarchaeology and ecology : mortality profiles, species abundance, diversity ; 23. New ecological directions : isotopes, genetics, historical ecology, conservation ; 24. Behavioral ecology and zooarchaeology ; 25. Social relations through zooarchaeology ; 26. Doing zooarchaeology today and tomorrow.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (XXIII, 604 pages), 137 illustrations, 4 illustrations in color
• Subjects: 930.1; Social sciences; Animal remains (Archaeology); Vertebrates; Archaeology; Social sciences; Archaeology; Social Science -- Archaeology; Archaeology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319656823; 3319656821; 3319656805; 9783319656809
• Related ISBNs: 9783319656809; 3319656805
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.