Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany: A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases

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Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany: A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases

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.

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Publisher
Springer
Pages
337

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Library of Congress
CC1-960QL1-991QK1-98, CC79.5.A5 I54 2010, CC79.5.A5 I55 2010

Contributors

Editor
Tanya M. Peres
Editor
Amber VanDerwarker

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
337

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25427304M
ISBN 10
1441909346
ISBN 13
9781441909343
LCCN
2009933116
OCLC/WorldCat
428029373

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16804184W

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