Colonisation, Migration, and Marginal Areas: A Zooarchaeological Approach

by Mariana Mondini, Sebastián Munoz, Stephen Wickler

Overview

Human migration tends to involve more than the odd suitcase or two - we often carry other organisms on our travels, some are deliberately transported, others move by accident. This volume of 12 papers offers a zooarchaeological approach to questions surrounding the nature and extent of human colonization and migration, and the adaptation of humans to new and sometimes extreme or challenging environments. The volume is divided into two parts: Part 1 takes up the theme of Human and Animal Migration and Colonisation. Contributors consider the relationship between human movements and the movements of animals and animal products; case studies look at Neolithic population movements in Oceania, the Norse colonization of Greenland, and the European settlement of Virginia. Part 2 focuses on the topic of Behavioural Variability in the So-Called Marginal Areas. Contributors offer various interpretations of the concept of 'marginality', from climatic extremes of the Arctic cold, and the heat and aridity of western North America, to the geographical remoteness of Patagonia, and the cultural circumstances surrounding the beginnings of transhumant pastoralism in prehistoric southeastern Europe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785705168
Publisher:	Oxbow Books
Publication date:	01/23/2017
Series:	Proceedings of the 9th ICAZ Conference , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	9 MB

Table of Contents

	Preface	v
Part I.	Human and Animal Migration and Colonisation
1.	Introduction to the Session: Human and Animal Migration and Colonisation	2
2.	Understanding Human Movement and Interaction through the Movement of Animals and Animal Products	4
3.	Plea for a Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Neolithic Migrations: the Analysis of Biological Witnesses and the Input of Palaeogenetics	10
4.	Zooarchaeology and Agricultural Colonization: an Example from the Colonial Chesapeake	20
5.	Modelling Colonisation and Migration in Micronesia from a Zooarchaeological Perspective	28
Part II.	Behavioural Variability in the So-Called Marginal Areas: a Zooarchaeological Approach
6.	Behavioural Variability in the So-Called Marginal Areas from a Zooarchaeological Perspective: an Introduction	42
7.	Faunal Exploitation Patterns along the Southern Slopes of the Caucasus during the Late Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic	46
8.	The Archaeozoology of the Andean 'Dead Ends' in Patagonia: Living near the Continental Ice Cap	55
9.	The Highs and Lows of High Arctic Mammals: Temporal Change and Regional Variability in Paleoeskimo Subsistence	62
10.	Identifying Dietary Stress in Marginal Environments: Bone Fats, Optimal Foraging Theory and the Seasonal Round	74
11.	The Worst of Times, the Best of Times: Jackrabbit Hunting by Middle Holocene Human Foragers in the Bonneville Basin of Western North America	86
12.	A Zooarchaeological Perspective on the Origins of Vertical Transhumant Pastoralism and the Colonization of Marginal Habitats in Temperate Southeastern Europe	96
13.	A Review of the Session: Margins and Marginality	118