An introduction to zooarchaeology
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Zooarchaeology |
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| 1. Verfasser: |
Gifford-Gonzalez, Diane
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cham, Switzerland :
Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature,
[2018].
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| Umfang/Format: |
xxiii, 604 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Section 1: An Orientation to Zooarchaeology.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Emergence of Zooarchaeology.- Chapter 3. A Perspective on Zooarchaeology.- Section 2: The Evidence- Vertebrate Bodies.- Chapter 4. Bone and Vertebrate Bodies as Uniformitarian Materials.- Chapter 5. Bone's Intrinsic Traits: Why Animals Eat Animals.- Chapter 6. Bone's Intrinsic Traits: Inferring Species, Sex, and Age.- Chapter 7. Bone's Intrinsic Traits: Age Estimation from Mammalian Dentition.- Section 3: Basic Practical Approaches.- Chapter 8. Field Recovery, Lab Methods, Data Records, Curation.- Chapter 9. Identification: Sorting Decisions and Analytic Consequences.- Chapter 10. Zooarchaeology's Basic Counting Units.- Section 4: Identifying Causal Process, Effector, Actor.- Chapter 11. Human, Animal, and Geological Causes of Bone Breakage.- Chapter 12. Mammalian and Reptilian Carnivore Effects on Bone.- Chapter 13. Avian Carnivore, Ungulate, and Effects on Bone.- Chapter 14. Primary Human Effects: Cutting Edge and Percussion Effects on Bone.- Chapter 15. Culinary Processing and Preservational Effects on Bone.- Chapter 16. Invertebrate, Plant, and Geological Effects on Bone.- Section 5: Studying Behavioral, Social, Ecological Contexts.- Chapter 17. Analyzing Multi-Agent Assemblages.- Chapter 18. Reasoning with Zooarchaeological Counting Units and Statistics.- Chapter 19. Skeletal Disarticulation, Dispersal, Dismemberment, Selective Transport.- Chapter 20. Calibrating Nutritionally Driven Selective Transport.- Chapter 21. Calibrating Bone Durability.- Chapter 22. Zooarchaeology and Ecology: Mortality Profiles, Species Abundance, Diversity.- Chapter 23. New Ecological Directions: Isotopes, Genetics, Historical Ecology, Conservation.- Chapter 24. Behavioral Ecology and Zooarchaeology.- Chapter 25. Social Relations through Zooarchaeology.- Conclusion.- Chapter 26. Doing Zooarchaeology Today and Tomorrow.
