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These animals can be domesticated or wild, and sometimes they find both types of remains at sites. [12] In addition to helping us understand the past, zooarchaeology can also help us to improve the present and the future. [13] Studying how people dealt with animals, and their effects can help avoid many potential ecological problems. [13]
Archaeobiology, the study of the biology of ancient times through archaeological materials, is a subspecialty of archaeology. It can be seen as a blanket term for paleobotany, animal osteology, zooarchaeology, microbiology, and many other sub-disciplines. Specifically, plant and animal remains are also called ecofacts.
In archaeology and paleontology a faunal assemblage is a group of animal fossils found together in a given stratum. [1] In a non-deformed deposition, fossils are organized by stratum following the laws of uniformitarianism [2] and superposition, [3] which state that the natural phenomena observable today (such as death, decay, or post-mortem transport) also apply to the paleontological record ...
Primate archaeology is a field of research established in 2008 that combines research interests and foci from primatology and archaeology.The main aim of primate archaeology is to study behavior of extant and extinct primates and the associated material records.
In archaeology, a biofact (or ecofact) is any organic material including flora or fauna material found at an archaeological site that has not been technologically altered by humans yet still has cultural relevance. [1] Biofacts can include but are not limited to plants, seeds, pollen, animal bones, insects, fish bones and mollusks. [1]
Bioarchaeology (osteoarchaeology, osteology or palaeo-osteology [1]) in Europe describes the study of biological remains from archaeological sites.In the United States it is the scientific study of human remains from archaeological sites.
ZooMS was first published in 2009 [1] by a team of researchers from the University of York, but the term was coined later in a publication in 2010. [2] The original aim of ZooMS was to distinguish between sheep and goat.
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. [1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (), palynomorphs and chemical residues.