Overview
- 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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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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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Issues and Methods for Integrating Data
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Case Studies
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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