Faunal remains from an archaic period cave in the Southeastern United States

Peres, Tanya M.; Deter-Wolf, Aaron; Keasler, Joey; Hodge, Shannon Chappell

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.06.010

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“…In later prehistoric times, unionoids are well recorded as part of hominin diet (e.g. Girod, 2005;Rabett et al, 2011;Szabó and Amesbury, 2011;Peres et al, 2016;Merzoug, 2017). Consequently it is not beyond the realm of possibility that they were a small but valuable resource for the Pleistocene hominins of Melka Kunture.…”

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Ichnological and archaeological evidence from Gombore II OAM, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia: An integrated approach to reconstruct local environments and biological presences between 1.2 and 0.85 Ma

Altamura

Bennett

Marchetti³

et al. 2020

Quaternary Science Reviews

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New ichnological data are available at the prehistoric site of Melka Kunture, Upper Awash Valley in Ethiopia. Excavation of new test pits enabled us to explore the volcanic and fluvio-lacustrine sequence at the Gombore II Open Air Museum archaeological site (ca. 0.85 Ma). This has allowed a detailed reconstruction of the palaeoenvironment and of the fauna present in the time interval between 1.2 and 0.85 Ma. Various-sized mammals, birds, molluscs as well as hominins left tracks throughout the sequence, and document a varied fauna and associated behaviours. Most of the hominin tracks were made by young individuals on the basis of size and are some of the earlier child tracks to be reported. The mollusc traces document the presence and orientation of water streams which, according to the associated vertebrate traces, were visited by hominins, mammals and birds. Most of these traces were found within levels traditionally considered barren for archaeology, yet they all document life activity and are always in situ. This confirms the potential of the ichnological research as an important complementary tool for archaeological investigations.

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Ichnological and archaeological evidence from Gombore II OAM, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia: An integrated approach to reconstruct local environments and biological presences between 1.2 and 0.85 Ma

Altamura

Bennett

Marchetti³

et al. 2020

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“…Disciplinary practice has tended to relegate zooarchaeological work to ancillary status and has isolated specialists from one another so that current theoretical debates have often failed to include zooarchaeologists. Thus, while zooarchaeologists have contributed to local archaeological records and participated in interpretations at local and subregional levels (e.g., Bergman et al 2014; Colburn 1985, 1986; Crothers 2005; Neusius 1982, 1986; Peres and Deter-Wolf 2016; Peres et al 2012, 2016; Smith 1989, 1994, 2002; Smith and Egan 1990; Styles 1986; Styles et al 1983; Walker 1998, 2000; Walker and Parmalee 2004), faunal findings have not been fully included in panregional theoretical debates even though relevant empirical data have been generated.…”

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Zooarchaeological Database Preservation, Multiscalar Data Integration, and the Collaboration of the Eastern Archaic Faunal Working Group

Neusius

Styles²,

Peres³

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Data preservation, reuse, and synthesis are important goals in contemporary archaeological research that have been addressed by the recent collaboration of the Eastern Archaic Faunal Working Group (EAFWG). We used the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) to preserve 60 significant legacy faunal databases from 23 Archaic period archaeological sites located in several contiguous subregions of the interior North American Eastern Woodlands. In order to resolve the problem of synthesizing non-standardized databases, we used the ontology and integration tools available in tDAR to explore comparability and combine datasets so that our research questions about aquatic resource use during the Archaic could be addressed at multiple scales. The challenges of making digital databases accessible for reuse, including the addition of metadata, and of linking disparate data in queryable datasets are significant but worth the effort. Our experience provides one example of how collaborative research may productively resolve problems in making legacy data accessible and usable for synthetic archaeological research.

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Rare animals at a Mississippian chiefly compound: the Irene Mound site (9CH1), Georgia, USA

Reitz

Williams

Dalton

2020

Southeastern Archaeology

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Faunal remains from an archaic period cave in the Southeastern United States

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Ichnological and archaeological evidence from Gombore II OAM, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia: An integrated approach to reconstruct local environments and biological presences between 1.2 and 0.85 Ma

Ichnological and archaeological evidence from Gombore II OAM, Melka Kunture, Ethiopia: An integrated approach to reconstruct local environments and biological presences between 1.2 and 0.85 Ma

Zooarchaeological Database Preservation, Multiscalar Data Integration, and the Collaboration of the Eastern Archaic Faunal Working Group

Rare animals at a Mississippian chiefly compound: the Irene Mound site (9CH1), Georgia, USA

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