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April M. Beisaw - Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones: A Manual (Texas A&M University Anthropology Series) - 9781623490263 - V9781623490263
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Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones: A Manual (Texas A&M University Anthropology Series)

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Description for Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones: A Manual (Texas A&M University Anthropology Series) Paperback. Series: Texas A&M University Anthropology Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HDW; PSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 658.
Offering a field-tested analytic method for identifying faunal remains, along with helpful references, images, and examples of the most commonly encountered North American species, Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones: A Manual provides an important new reference for students, avocational archaeologists, and even naturalists and wildlife enthusiasts. Using the basic principles outlined here, the bones of any vertebrate animal, including humans, can be identified and their relevance to common research questions can be better understood.

Because the interpretation of archaeological sites depends heavily on the analysis of surrounding materials—soils, artefacts, and floral and faunal remains—it is important that non-human remains be correctly distinguished from human bones, that distinctions between domesticated and wild or feral animals be made correctly, and that evidence of the reasons for faunal remains in the site be recognised. But the ability to identify and analyse animal bones is a skill that is not easy to learn from a traditional textbook. In Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones, veteran archaeologist and educator April Beisaw guides readers through the stages of identification and analysis with sample images and data, also illustrating how specialists make analytical decisions that allow for the identification of the smallest fragments of bone.

Extensive additional illustrative material, from the author’s own collected assemblages and from those in the Archaeological Analytical Research Facility at Binghamton University in New York, USA are also available in the book’s online supplement. There, readers can view and interact with images to further understanding of the principles explained in the text.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Condition
New
Series
Texas A&M University Anthropology Series
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781623490263
SKU
V9781623490263
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99-40

About April M. Beisaw
April M. Beisaw is an assistant professor of anthropology at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA and an adjunct research associate in anthropology at Binghamton University, USA. She has served as an independent faunal analyst since 1998 and has analysed assemblages from prehistoric and historic sites across North America.

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