Beyond optimization: Alternative ways of examining animal exploitation

World Archaeology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 89-109

  Holt, Julie Zimmermann ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American bottom; Ethnohistory; Optimization; Structuralism; Zooarchaeology; Zoomorphic art

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPLOITATION; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; HISTORICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGICAL EVALUATION; OPTIMISATION MODEL; PREHISTORIC; STRUCTURAL APPROACH;

USA, (MIDWEST);

EID: 0030458645     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.1996.9980333     Document Type: Article

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