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Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany

A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases

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Editors:
  1. Amber M. VanDerwarker

    1. College of Letters & Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.

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  2. Tanya M. Peres

    1. Dept. Sociology & Anthropology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, U.S.A.

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  • The first book to bring together archaeological plant and animal analysis

  • Integrating different methodologies and issues from zooarchaeology and paleoethnobotany

  • A collection of new voices in the field as well as established scholars

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Issues and Methods for Integrating Data

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 14-14
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    2. Introduction

      • Amber M. VanDerwarker, Tanya M. Peres
      Pages 1-12

    3. Methodological Issues in Zooarchaeology

      • Tanya M. Peres
      Pages 15-36

    4. Methodological Issues in Paleoethnobotany: A consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases

      • Patti J. Wright
      Pages 37-64

    5. Simple Measures for Integrating Plant and Animal Remains

      • Amber M. VanDerwarker
      Pages 65-74

    6. Correspondence Analysis and Principal Components Analysis as Methods for Integrating Archaeological Plant and Animal Remains

      • Amber M. VanDerwarker
      Pages 75-95

  3. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 98-98
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    2. Microbotanical and Macrobotanical Evidence of Plant Use and the Transition to Agriculture in Panama

      • Ruth Dickau
      Pages 99-134

    3. Waitui Kei Vanua: Interpreting Sea- and Land-Based Foodways in Fiji

      • Sharyn Jones, Rhonda Quinn
      Pages 135-172

    4. Integrated Contextual Approaches to Understanding Past Activities Using Plant and Animal Remains from Kala Uyuni, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia

      • Katherine Moore, Maria Bruno, José M. Capriles, Christine Hastorf
      Pages 173-203

    5. A Tale of Two Shell Middens: The Natural versus the Cultural in “Obanian” Deposits at Carding Mill Bay, Oban, Western Scotland

      • László Bartosiewicz, Lydia Zapata, Clive Bonsall
      Pages 205-225

    6. Documenting Subsistence Change During the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition: Investigations of Paleoethnobotanical and Zooarchaeological Data from Dust Cave, Alabama

      • Kandace D. Hollenbach, Renee B. Walker
      Pages 227-244

    7. In the Light of the Crescent Moon: Reconstructing Environment and Diet from an Ottoman-Period Deposit in Sixteenth to Seventeenth Century Hungary

      • Andrea J. Tóth, László Daróczi-Szabó, Zsófia E. Kovács, Erika Gál, László Bartosiewicz
      Pages 245-280

    8. The Farmed and the Hunted: Integrating Floral and Faunal Data from Tres Zapotes, Veracruz

      • Tanya M. Peres, Amber M. VanDerwarker, Christopher A. Pool
      Pages 281-308

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 309-333
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About this book

In recent years, scholars have emphasized the need for more holistic subsistence analyses, and collaborative publications towards this endeavor have become more numerous in the literature. However, there are relatively few attempts to qualitatively integrate zooarchaeological (animal) and paleoethnobotanical (plant) data, and even fewer attempts to quantitatively integrate these two types of subsistence evidence. Given the vastly different methods used in recovering and quantifying these data, not to mention their different preservational histories, it is no wonder that so few have undertaken this problem.

Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany takes the lead in tackling this important issue by addressing the methodological limitations of data integration, proposing new methods and innovative ways of using established methods, and highlighting case studies that successfully employ these methods to shed new light on ancient foodways. The volume challenges the perception that plant and animal foodways are distinct and contends that the separation of the analysis of archaeological plant and animal remains sets up a false dichotomy between these portions of the diet. In advocating qualitative and quantitative data integration, the volume establishes a clear set of methods for (1) determining the suitability of data integration in any particular case, and (2) carrying out an integrated qualitative or quantitative approach.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Letters & Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.

    Amber M. VanDerwarker

  • Dept. Sociology & Anthropology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, U.S.A.

    Tanya M. Peres

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany

  • Book Subtitle: A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases

  • Editors: Amber M. VanDerwarker, Tanya M. Peres

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0935-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0934-3Published: 01 February 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8475-3Published: 13 December 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0935-0Published: 22 January 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 335

  • Topics: Archaeology, Zoology, Plant Sciences

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