White-Tailed Deer Meat and Marrow Return Rates and Their Application to Eastern Woodlands Archaeology
| Autor: | T. Cregg Madrigal, Julie Zimmermann Holt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
010506 paleontology
Archeology History 060102 archaeology Economic utility Yield (finance) Museology food and beverages 06 humanities and the arts Woodland Biology Odocoileus biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Archaeology Uncorrelated Prehistory Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Assemblage (archaeology) 0601 history and archaeology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | American Antiquity. 67:745-759 |
| ISSN: | 2325-5064 0002-7316 |
| Popis: | Zooarchaeological hypotheses concerning prehistoric transport, processing decisions, and social stratification are often tested by correlating archaeological element frequencies with indices of the economic utility of carcass parts. Such indices have not been developed for one of the largest and most important mammals in Eastern Woodlands prehistory, the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). We present kilocalorie (Kcal) yields and return rates of meat and marrow from a sample of several white-tailed deer. We then compare the meat and marrow data with skeletal element abundance in two Late Archaic assemblages from New York and a Middle Woodland/early Late Woodland assemblage from Illinois. In both examples, archaeological element abundance is positively correlated with marrow yield and return rate, but negatively correlated or uncorrelated with meat yield and return rate. These results do not provide evidence for differential transport of higher meat-yield carcass parts, but instead may indicate differential processing of high-yield marrow bones after entire deer carcasses were transported to the sites. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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