Zooarchaeology in Practice

1: Methods, Methodology, and Zooarchaeology in Practice (Christina M. Giovas and Michelle J. LeFebvre).- Part I: Identification and Quantification.- 2: The History of MNI in North American Zooarchaeology (R. Lee Lyman).- 3: Contemporary Challenges in Zooarchaeological Specimen Identification (Michelle J. LeFebvre and Ashley E. Sharpe).- 4: Impact of Analytic Protocols on Archaeofish Abundance, Richness, and Similarity: A Caribbean-Pacific Crossover Study (Christina M. Giovas).- Part II: Beyond Quantification: Taphonomy, Fragmentation, and Assemblage Size.- 5: Bone Taphonomy in Deep Urban Stratigraphy: Case Studies from York, United Kingdom (Clare Rainsford and Terry O'Connor) .- 6: Low-Survival Skeletal Elements Track Attrition, Not Carcass Transport Behavior in Quaternary Large Mammal Assemblages (J. Tyler Faith and Jessica C. Thompson).- 7: Influence of Bone Survivorship on Taxonomic Abundance Measures (Jacob L. Fisher).- 8: Shell Fragmentation Beyond Screen-Size and the Reconstruction of Intra-Site Settlement Patterns: A Case Study from the West Coast of South Africa (Antonieta Jerardino).- 9: The Value in Studying Large Faunal Collections Using Traditional Zooarchaeological Methods: A Case Study from Anglo-Saxon England (Pam Crabtree).- Part III: Isotopic and Biomolecular Techniques.- 10: Molluscs and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction in Island and Coastal Settings: Variability, Seasonality, and Sampling (Catherine F. West, Meghan Burchell, and C. Fred T. Andrus).- 11: Ancient DNA in Zooarchaeology: New Methods, New Questions and Settling Old Debates in Pacific Commensal Studies (Lisa Matisoo-Smith).- 12: Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) Collagen Fingerprinting for the Species Identification of Archaeological Bone Fragments (Michael Buckley).- Part IV: Toward Practical Applications and Broader Syntheses.- 13: Coming to Terms with Imperfection: Comparative Studies and the Search for Grazing Impacts in Seventeenth Century New Mexico (Emily Lena Jones).-

Christina M. Giovas (Ph.D., University of Washington) is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Queensland. Her research focuses on prehistoric fisheries, animal translocations, and the human paleoecology of island and coastal settings, particularly the Caribbean and Oceania. She has conducted fieldwork in the Lesser Antilles, Polynesia, France, and the Great Lakes and the Pacific Northwest regions of North America. Dr. Giovas is Associate Editor for the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology and serves on the Board of the International Association for Caribbean Archaeology. She joins the faculty of the Department of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University in 2018.

Michelle J. LeFebvre (Ph.D., University of Florida) is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biodiversity Informatics at the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), Gainesville. With a focus in Caribbean and Southeastern U.S. archaeology, she uses zooarchaeological, biochemical, and archaeological datasets to investigate how animal exploitation, manipulation (e.g., translocation, management), and consumption articulate with patterns of human interaction, village aggregation, and social hierarchy. She is also focused on the mechanics and facilitation of open access zooarchaeological data, and its integration within open biodiversity networks.