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ANTH 3133

Environmental Archaeology

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2020

Topics

  • Biological, Folk and Zooarchaeological Taxonomies
  • Describing Bone surfaces and orientation
  • Bone and tooth anatomy
  • Axial versus appendicular skeleton
  • Locomotion and lifestyle
  • Dentition, and dental formulae
  • Lecture Taphonomy in Zooarchaeology
  • Inferring past environments
  • Inferring domestication
  • Comparative mammalian osteology
  • Lecture Describing individual bones
  • Variation within species
  • Interpreting past environments
  • Inferring seasonality
  • Sexing and Aging Techniques
  • Fish and Bird Osteology
  • Lecture Assessing relative abundance of individual Taxa
  • MNI, NISP, Utility indices
  • Identification of fragmentary bones
  • Lecture Element representation, bone processing and butchering
  • Evaluating Human predator, processing behaviour
  • Lecture Case study: Fur Trade ‘over-hunting’ (Peace River)
  • Case study: Integrating NISP, MNI, and historic records (Brandon House)
  • Paleoecology begins
  • Lecture Introduction

Readings

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  • 1987. Marine Fish Osteology: A Manual for and Ecology Series, University of Chicago Archaeologists. Simon Fraser University Press, Chicago and London. Press.
  • 1999. Shells. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. 1993 From Bones to Behavior : Ethnoarchaeological Cambridge University Press. and Experimental Contributions to the Interpretation of Faunal Remains. Center forCohen, A. and D. Serjeantson. Archaeological Investigations, Southern1996. A Manual for the Identification of Bird Bones Illinois University at Carbondale, Occasional from Archaeological Sites, revised ed. Paper No. 21. Archetype Publications, Ltd.
  • Archaeological Science 12 :221-236. Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University 56(4). 1994 Vertebrate Taphonomy. Cambridge University
  • Press, Cambridge. 1985 Origins of the Domestic Dog. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 2008 Quantitative Paleozoology. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology, Cambridge University Press. Reitz, Elizabeth and Elizabeth Wing 2007 Zooarchaeology 2nd Edition. Cambridge
  • Lyman, R. L. and K. P. Cannon (eds). University Press.
  • 1997. Estimating the Age and Sex of Caribou from 2009. Birds. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Mandibular Measurements. Journal of Cambridge University Press. Archaeological Science 24:1093-1106.
  • O'Connell, James C., Kristen Hawkes and Nicholas 1983 Bison Kills and Bone Counts : Decision Making Blurton Jones by Ancient Hunters . University of Chicago 1988 Hadza huntin, butchering and bone transport and Press, Chicago. their archaeological implications. Journal of Anthropological Research 44 (2):113-161. Speth, John D., and Katherine A. Spielmann
  • 2000. The Archaeology of Animal Bones. Texas A&M Anthropological Archaeology 2 :1-31. University Press.
  • Wheeler, A. and A. K. G. Jones. 1972 Osteology for the archaeologist, 3, the American 2009. Fishes. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. mastodon and woolly mammoth, Papers of the Cambridge University Press. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
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