Nunamiut ethnoarchaeology
| 1. Verfasser: |
Binford, Lewis R. (Lewis Roberts), 1931-2011
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York :
Academic Press,
1978.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xiii, 509 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Studies in archeology (Academic Press)
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| ISBN: | 0121000400 |
| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 1. The economic anatomy of sheep and caribou
- Meat utility
- Comparisons between the animals
- Construction of a meat utility index for anatomical parts of caribou and sheep
- Bone marrow and the construction of a marrow index
- Bone grease and the construction of grease utility indices
- Cultural bias versus objective food preferences
- 2. Some general considerations: butchering, kill sites, and recording procedures
- Butchering procedure
- Recorded cases of initial field butchering
- Coaching and secondary field butchering
- Butchering variability
- Summary of butchering data
- Measuring dismemberment
- Calculating the number of individuals from bone counts
- Measuring general utility in realistic terms
- Looking at the empirical world
- Sex and age data
- 3. Meat storage
- Dry storage
- Butchering procedure followed for drying caribou meat
- Drying racks
- Construction of the drying utility index
- Some empirical material relative to dry meat stores
- Evaluating the utility of models and indices
- Processing debris from drying activities
- Frozen storage
- 4. Food processing and consumption
- Consumer demand
- Food sharing and the distribution of anatomical parts to consumers
- Consumption and food processing
- Patterns of processing bones for marrow
- Manufacture of bone grease
- Manufacture of bone juice and related marrow-processing in summer sites
- 5. Spring
- Early spring monitoring and encounter hunting
- Midspring or migration hunting
- Late spring hunting
- Spring consumption in the contemporary village and in the past
- Mobility, spring drying activities, and related logistics
- Glimpses into the past
- summer storage under mobile conditions when meat was for human consumption
- The spring system
- 6. Summer
- Consumption in the contemporary village and in the past
- Summer hunting and logistics
- Summer residential locations of the recent past
- Modeling the summer residential sites
- 7. Fall
- Contemporary fall hunting strategy
- Consumption and storage in the fall residential locations
- Late fall sheep hunting and the use of sheep in fall residential sites
- 8. Winter
- Winter residential locations
- Modeling faunal contents of winter stores
- Consumer demand and MNIs represented in a residential faunal assemblage.
