Animal bones from the Cross Street Back Lot privy

Brown, Gregory J.; Bowen, Joanne

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“…Part of the importance of this piece is that is was reprinted in Robert Schuyler's Historical Archaeology reader (Schuyler, 1978), and thus has a high visibility among historical archaeology students. Bowen has studied assemblages from historic sites in New England (Bowen, 1982(Bowen, , 1992(Bowen, , 1998Brown and Bowen, 1998), and as director of the Zooarchaeology Laboratory at Colonial Williamsburg, has studied numerous assemblages from the Chesapeake. Her historic anthropological work on seasonality and agricultural practices (Bowen, 1988(Bowen, , 1990 has advanced the field by developing models for interpreting assemblages that differ markedly from seasonality models employed by prehistoric zooarchaeologists.…”

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Zooarchaeology and Historical Archaeology: Progress and Prospects

Landon

2005

J Archaeol Method Theory

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This review assesses the development and current status of zooarchaeological research in historical archaeology. Analytical issues in recovery, identification, quantification and interpretation are discussed with particular reference to assemblages from historical sites. The results section summarizes the substantive contributions zooarchaeological studies of historical assemblages have made to our understanding of past diet, food production systems, social and cultural variation, and archaeological interpretations. The last four decades of research has provided a strong basis for future analyses that draw together diverse strands of zooarchaeological, historical, scientific, and anthropological evidence.

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Zooarchaeology and Historical Archaeology: Progress and Prospects

Landon

2005

J Archaeol Method Theory

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“…Unwanted household trash, food remains, and contraband were deposited in privies (Rose et al 2007;Schablitsky 2002). The widespread use of privies as disposal areas for trash makes them important for historical data around the globe (e.g., Brown and Bowen 1998;Ciolek-Torrello et al 1997;Crist 2005;Dalglish 2008;Geismar 1993:58;Jones 1997;Koloski-Ostrow 2015;Rose et al 2007;Schablitsky 2002;Starr 2001;Stottman 2000).…”

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“…Most food refuse was deposited in day-to-day events alongside broken household objects like toys and bottles. Day-today deposits of faunal remains provide specific dietary information on the households or groups using a particular privy (Brown and Bowen 1998). Clean-out events typically marked a tenancy change or the need to backfill a privy, and resulted in mass discard of accumulated household objects, like multiple pairs of shoes and complete tea sets (Rose et al 2007;Schablitsky 2002;Wheeler 2000).…”

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Using Archival and Archaeofaunal Records to Examine Victorian-era Fish Use in the Pacific Northwest

Taber¹

2000

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Studies of historic fish archaeofaunas can contribute to our understanding of Victorian-era consumer choice and agency. However, most zooarchaeological work focuses on interpreting large mammal remains such as cow (Bos taurus). That fish are overlooked is particularly striking in the Pacific Northwest, where fishing was a major facet of both the bourgeoning industrial economy and local household practices. My thesis addresses this gap through study of archival records (mainly newspapers) and zooarchaeological fish records from a neighborhood in Vancouver, Washington, U.S.A., focusing on the period between 1880 and 1910. My particular goals were to examine how fishes were acquired and their economic role in a market economy. I conducted archival research through systematic and qualitative reviews of TheOregonian and other newspapers in Oregon and Washington. I recorded 105 different named fishes, which I linked to 46 Linnaean taxa; 76 fishes were listed with price information in advertisements. I connected these fishes to market acquisition, and the remaining fishes to personal catch. I ranked the sixteen most prominent fishes by their price. Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) was the most expensive, and Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) was the least expensive. Five ranked fishes were introduced; all of these were in the top 50% of the ranking. Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) was advertised the most frequently, but was in the lower 50% of the ranking. Some fishes (e.g., common carp [Cyprinus carpio]) were heavily promoted by federal entities and private entrepreneurs, but viewed negatively by consumers.ii The zooarchaeological portion of my study focused on privies from the Esther Short neighborhood (Vancouver, WA), which, between 1880 and 1910, was a predominantly middle-and working-class community, occupied by people of European ancestry. The fish fauna (total NISP: 1,282) had previously been documented by Krey Easton. I reanalyzed ~30% of the fish remains to verify identifications; our results were highly correlated. Ten fish families representing 16 taxa were recorded in the assemblage. Both introduced fishes (n = 6 taxa) and native fishes (n = 10 taxa) were present. Catfish (Ictaluridae) dominated the assemblage (76%). Salmonids represented 15%. I recorded five new taxa from specimens previously noted as "unidentified".

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“…60 little to diet compared to domestic mammals like sheep, goats, cattle, and pigs. 63 For all their abundance, passenger pigeons required extensive preparation to make them palatable. The meat of adult birds was 'dry and blackish', and commentators like William Douglass noted that passenger pigeons were 'good delicate eating' if caught and fattened on maize but were otherwise predominantly only 'of great benefit in feeding the poor'.…”

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An Emotional Ecology of Pigeons in Early Modern England and America

Morgan¹

2022

Environment and History

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This article explores the feelings English people had about, and with, pigeons in early modern England and America. In so doing, the paper uses the concept of an emotional ecology, an understanding of emotion that is situated in a web of relations with other creatures and things. To do this, the paper outlines the context of everyday interactions with pigeons in England and uses these contexts to explore how rural tenants felt about the pigeons in their midst. Hungry, fecund and gregarious, pigeons cut a divisive figure in the English landscape. Legal sanction and customary practice marked them as privileged while a wide range of other potential agricultural pests were enthusiastically suppressed. We then look at how settler colonists experienced an abundance of American pigeons, particularly the Passenger Pigeon which would be hunted to extinction in the nineteenth century. Together, this story provides an example of how environments, culture and emotions are mutually, if not equally, constitutive.

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Animal bones from the Cross Street Back Lot privy

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Zooarchaeology and Historical Archaeology: Progress and Prospects

Zooarchaeology and Historical Archaeology: Progress and Prospects

Using Archival and Archaeofaunal Records to Examine Victorian-era Fish Use in the Pacific Northwest

An Emotional Ecology of Pigeons in Early Modern England and America

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