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This means zooarchaeology is part of the general study of waste or garbology. Archaeologists may have to sort through and identify the species and body region of faunal remains. [ 12 ] The types of fauna that leave behind these remains will depend on where the archaeological site is located.
Diane Gifford-Gonzalez is an American archaeologist who specializes in the field of zooarchaeology.Her research has included fieldwork near Lake Turkana, northwestern Kenya, and her research often touches on the question of animal domestication and the origins and development of African pastoralism. [1]
Stanley John Olsen (24 June 1919 – 23 December 2003) was an American vertebrate paleontologist and one of the founding figures of zooarchaeology in the United States. Olsen was also recognized as an historical archaeologist and scholar of United States military insignia, especially buttons of the American Colonial through Civil War periods.
In 2004, Albarella joined the Department of Archaeology as a Research Officer to expand and develop the zooarchaeology lab. [1] On the 15th June 2021, Albarella gave his professorship inaugural lecture at the University of Sheffield. Albarella has written numerous journal articles, book chapters and edited volumes.
A reviewer for the Canadian Journal of Archaeology praised Reitz and Wing's book, Zooarchaeology as "the best available introductory text on the subject for undergraduate students". [10] She has been credited for having "done more than any other individual to advance the subfield of historical zooarchaeology". [11]
She founded the Zooarchaeology Laboratory at the Florida Museum of Natural History in 1961, one of the first laboratories of zooarchaeology in the world. She helped establish the International Council for Archaeozoology, [2] participating in its first organizational meeting in 1971. In 1978, she was hired as Curator at the FLMNH.
Stine Rossel (4 January 1975 – 20 October 2007) [1] was a Danish archaeologist.She was a postdoc and Instructor of Egyptology at the University of Copenhagen.Her interests included zooarchaeology, the effects of environmental change on animal use, and the rise of complex societies.
Russ, H. 2017. "To fish, or not to fish? Using observations of recent hunter-gatherer fishing in the interpretation of Late Pleistocene fish bone assemblages".