Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany - A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)

*The first book to bring together archaeological plant and animal analysis *Integrating different methodologies and issues from zooarchaeology and paleoethnobotany *Features a number of new voices in the field as well as established scholars 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.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2010
First published:	2010
Editors:	Amber Vanderwarker • Tanya M. Peres
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	335
Edition:	2010 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4419-0934-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > General
LSN:	1-4419-0934-6
Barcode:	9781441909343

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