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Zooarchaeology or archaeozoology merges the disciplines of zoology and archaeology, focusing on the analysis of animal remains within archaeological sites. This field, managed by specialists known as zooarchaeologists or faunal analysts, examines remnants such as bones, shells, hair, chitin, scales, hides, and proteins, such as DNA, to derive ...
What is Zooarchaeology? Zooarchaeology is a hybrid discipline that combines zoology (the study of animals) and archaeology (the study of past human culture). Zooarchaeologists, also called archaeozoologists and faunal analysts, study animal remains from archaeological sites.
Section One presents a general introduction to zooarchaeology, key definitions, and an historical survey of the emergence of zooarchaeology in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and introduces the conceptual approach taken in the book.
Zooarchaeology is defined as the subdiscipline of archaeology that focuses on analyzing animal remains from archaeological sites to gain insights into past human diets, environments, and social organizations.
Zooarchaeology is a dynamic and diverse field in which many disparate approaches are used to understand human interaction with nonhuman animals. In this new era of research and education, many approaches of the past continue to hold merit while new approaches emerge with greater and greater frequency.
While there has been a growing number of researchers investigating animal bones from archaeological sites from this period, the “Zooarchaeology of the Modern Era” working group provides the first dedicated forum for these scholars to meet.
Zooarchaeology, originally called archaeozoology in the Old World, considers relationships between humans and animals using animal remains from archaeological sites. Although rooted in paleontology, the study of fossils from extinct natural fauna, zooarchaeological research deals exclusively with evidence from archaeological contexts.