Ancient Crafts and Gross Stuff: Experimental Zooarchaeology - Ep 60

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Join us as we delve into experimental archaeology through the lenses of zooarchaeology. How can replicating objects or activities from the archaeological record help us understand animal exploitation in the past? Tune in to find out more!

Transcripts

• Segment 1

• Segment 2

• Segment 3

Links and Sources

• The Auerrind Project

• Bradfield, J. (2019). Fishing with gorges: Testing a functional hypothesis. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 24, 593-607.

• Fairnell, Eva H. (2008) 101 ways to skin a fur-bearing animal: the implications for zooarchaeological interpretation. Experiencing Archaeology by Experiment, 47-60.

• Gilson, S.P. et al. (2021) Shark teeth used as tools: An experimental archaeology study. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 35, 102733.

• Lev, M. A., et al. (2020). Squamate bone taphonomy: A new experimental framework and its application to the Natufian zooarchaeological record. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 9373.

• Mansrud, A., & Kutschera, M. (2020). Roe Deer as Raw Material for Middle Mesolithic Fishhooks? An Experimental Approach to the Manufacture of Small Bone Fishhooks. EXARC Journal, 3.

• Page, M. (2011). Butser Ancient Farm. EXARC Journal Digest, 23-25.

• Portillo, M. et al. (2021). The taphonomy of plant and livestock dung microfossils: an ethnoarchaeological and experimental approach. Environmental Archaeology, 26(4), 439-454.

• Pfeifer, W., & Claussen, M. (2016). Experiments on possible Stone Age glue types in. The Life Cycle of Structures in Experimental Archaeology: An Object Biography Approach, 115-127.

• Rodríguez-Alba, J.J. et al. (2019). First assessments of the taphonomic behaviour of jaguar (Panthera onca). Quaternary International, 517, 88-96.

• Rodríguez-Alcántara, Á. et al. (2021). Making Garum. Experimental archaeology methods. In Roman Amphora Contents: Reflecting on the Maritime Trade of Foodstuffs in Antiquity, 171-177.

• Soulier, M. C., & Costamagno, S. (2017). Let the cutmarks speak! Experimental butchery to reconstruct carcass processing. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 11, 782-802.

• Steffen, M., & Mackie, Q. (2005). An experimental approach to understanding burnt fish bone assemblages within archaeological hearth contexts. Canadian Zooarchaeology, (23), 3-10.

• Tsai, G. E. et al. (2022). Bay salt in seventeenth-century meat preservation: how ethnomicrobiology and experimental archaeology help us understand historical tastes. BJHS Themes, 7, 63-93.

Contact

• Alex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Alex’s Blog: Animal Archaeology

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