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Approaches to Faunal Analysis in Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Patricia Daly
Patricia Daly*
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Port Washington, New York
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Abstract

Analysis of faunal remains from archaeological sites is at least as much an archaeological as a zoological problem since food animal remains are essentially artifactual in nature, their occurrence in deposits being the result of human activity.

This paper examines some of the methods used to make such analyses and suggests the merits and faults of the various approaches. It also suggests some of the kinds of inferences which may be drawn when detailed and careful investigation of faunal material is carried out, preferably by the archaeologist.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , April 1969 , pp. 146 - 153
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1969

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