Trends and traditions in southeastern zooarchaeology / edited by Tanya M. Peres.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peres, Tanya M., editor.

Series:

Ripley P. Bullen series

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal remains (Archaeology)--Southern States.

Animal remains (Archaeology).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Southern States.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Southern States--Antiquities.

Southern States.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xvi, 224 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]

Summary:

This volume is a synthesis of zooarchaeology's history in the southeast, exploring the role of animals in social and economic development and examining the current trends and methodologies used.

Contents:

Introduction / Tanya M. Peres

"Som times I git a nuff and som times I don't": Confederate subsistence and the evidence from the Florence Stockade (38FL2), Florence, South Carolina / Judith A. Sichler

Foodways, economic status, and the Antebellum Upland South cultural tradition in Central Kentucky / Tanya M. Peres

Shell trade: craft production at a fourteenth-century Mississippian frontier / Maureen S. Meyers

The dogs of Spirit Hill: an analysis of domestic dog burials from Jackson County, Alabama / Renee B. Walker and R. Jeannine Windham

Hunting ritual, trapping meaning, gathering offerings / Cheryl Claassen

Embedded: five thousand years of shell symbolism in the southeast / Aaron Deter-Wolf and Tanya M. Peres

Behavioral, environmental, and applied aspects of molluscan assemblages from the Lower Tombigbee River, Alabama / Evan Peacock, Stuart W. McGregor, and Ashley A. Dumas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813049274

081304927X

OCLC:

830367651

Publisher Number:

99957449125

40023334774