Data Quality in Zooarchaeological Faunal Identification

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 381-396

  Wolverton, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Faunal identification; Quality assessment; Quality assurance; Quality control; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881029459     PISSN: 10725369     EISSN: 15737764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10816-012-9161-4     Document Type: Article

References (83)

1. Andrefsky, W. (2005). Lithics: macroscopic approaches to analysis (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Balkwill, D. M., & Cumbaa, S. L. (1992). A guide to the identification of postcranial bones of Bos taurus and Bison bison. Syllogeus 71. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Nature.
3. Barker, A. (2010). Archaeological protein residues: new data for conservation science. Ethnobiology Letters, 1, 58-65.
4. Barker, A., Venables, B., Stevens, S. M., Seeley, K. W., Wang, P., & Wolverton, S. (2012). An optimized approach for protein residue extraction and identification from ceramics after cooking. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 9(3), 407-439.
5. Betts, M. W., Maschner, H. D. G., Schou, C. D., Schlader, R., Holmes, J., Clement, N., & Smuin, M. (2011). Virtual zooarchaeology: building a web-based reference collection of northern vertebrates for archaeofaunal research and education. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38, 755-762.
6. Binford, L. R. (1986). Data, relativism, and archaeological science. Man, 22, 391-404.
7. Bochenski, Z. M. (2008). Identification of skeletal remains of closely related species. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35, 1247-150.
8. Bochenski, Z. M., & Tomek, T. (2000). Identification of bones of galliform hybrids. Journal of Archaeological Science, 27, 691-698.
9. Bovy, K. M. (2011). Archaeological evidence for a double-crested cormorant (Palacrocorax auritus) colony in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Waterbirds, 34, 84-95.
10. Bovy, K. M. (2012). Zooarchaeological evidence for sandhill crane (Grus Canadensis) breeding in northwestern Washington State. In S. Wolverton & R. L. Lyman (Eds.), Conservation biology and applied zooarchaeology (pp. 23-41). Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
11. Brown, C. L., & Gustafson, C. E. (1979). A key to postcranial skeletal remains of cattle/bison, elk, and horse. Pullman: Washington State University Laboratory of Anthropology. Reports of Investigations No 57.
12. Butler, V. L. (2001). Changing fish use on Mangaia, Southern Cook Islands: resource depression and the prey choice model. International Journal of Osteology, 11, 88-100.
13. Butler, V. L., & Lyman, R. L. (1996). Taxonomic identifications and faunal summaries: what should we be including in our faunal reports? Society for American Archaeology, Bulletin, 14, 22.
14. Calder, B. J., Phillips, L. W., & Tybout, A. M. (1982). The concept of external validity. Journal of Consumer Research, 9, 240-244.
15. Chomko, S. A. (1990). Identification of North American rodent teeth. In B. M. Gilbert (Ed.), Mammalian osteology (pp. 72-99). Columbia: Missouri Archaeological Society.
16. Clarkson, C. (2002). An index of invasiveness for the measurement of unifacial and bifacial retouch: a theoretical, experimental and archaeological verification. Journal of Archaeological Science, 29, 65-75.
17. Driver, J. C. (1992). Identification, classification and zooarchaeology. Circaea, 9, 35-47.
18. Driver, J. C. (2011a). Identification, classification and zooarchaeology (featured reprint and invited comments). Ethnobiology Letters, 2, 19-39. http://www. ethnobiology. org/sites/default/files/publications/ebl/pdfs/driverrepubebl. pdf.
19. Driver, J. C. (2011b). Twenty years after identification, classification and zooarchaeology. Ethnobiology Letters, 2, 36-39.
20. Dunnell, R. C. (1982). Science, social science, and common sense: the agonizing dilemma of modern archaeology. Journal of Anthropological Research, 38, 1-25.
21. Fothergill, B. (2008). Analysis and interpretation of the fauna from the Bluff Great House. Master's Thesis, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University.
22. Frazier, J. (2007). Sustainable use of wildlife: the view from archaeozoology. Journal for Nature Conservation, 15, 163-173.
23. Gee, H. E. (1993). The distinction between postcranial bones of Bos primigenius Bojanus, 1827 and Bison priscus Bojanus, 1827 from the British Pleistocene and the taxonomic status of Bos and Bison. Journal of Quaternary Science, 8, 79-92.
24. Gobalet, K. W. (2001). A critique of faunal analysis; inconsistency among experts in blind tests. Journal of Archaeological Science, 28, 377-386.
25. Gobalet, K. W. (2005). Comment on Size matters: 3-mm sieves do not increase richness in a fishbone assemblage from Arrawarra 1, an Aboriginal Australian shell midden on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, Australia by Vale and Gargett. Journal of Archaeological Science, 32, 643-645.
26. Graham, R. W. (1984). Paleoenvironmental implications of the Quaternary distribution of the eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) in central Texas. Quaternary Research, 21, 111-114.
27. Graham, R. W. (1988). The role of climate change in the design of biological preserves. Conservation Biology, 2, 391-394.
28. Grinnell, J. (1922). The role of the accidental. The Auk, 39, 373-380.
29. Gustafson, C. E. (1972). Faunal remains from the Marmes Rockshelter and related archaeological sites in the Columbia Basin. Ph. D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University.
30. Hager, S. B., & Consentino, B. J. (2006). An identification key to rodent prey in owl pellets from the northwestern and southeastern United States: incisor size to distinguish among genera. The American Biology Teacher, 68, e135-e144.
31. Haglund, W. D., & Sorg, M. H. (Eds.). (2002). Advances in forensic taphonomy: method, theory, and archaeological perspectives. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
32. Hargrave, L. L., & Emslie, S. D. (1979). Osteological identification of sandhill crane versus turkey. American Antiquity, 44, 295-299.
33. Horsburgh, K. A. (2008). Wild or domesticated? An ancient DNA approach to canid species identification in South Africa's Western Cape Province. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35, 1474-1480.
34. Huber, H. R., Jorgensen, J. C., Butler, V. L., Baker, G., & Stevens, R. (2011). Can salmonids (Oncorhynchus spp.) be identified to species using veterbral morphometrics? Journal of Archaeological Science, 38, 136-146.
35. Hyland, D. C., Tersak, J. M., Adovasio, J. M., & Siegel, M. I. (1990). Identification of species of origin of residual blood on lithic material. American Antiquity, 55, 104-112.
36. Jacobson, J. A. (2003). Identification of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) postcranial remains as a means of determining human subsistence strategies. Plains Anthropologist, 48, 287-297.
37. Jacobson, J. A. (2004). Determining human ecology on the plains through the identification of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) postcranial remains. Ph. D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
38. Kansa, S. W., (ed). (2011). Special forum: digital communication and collaboration: perspectives from zooarchaeology. SAA Archaeological Record, 11, 10-43.
39. Kerlinger, F. (1964). The foundations of behavioural research. New York: Holt.
40. Lawrence, B. (1951). Post-cranial skeletal characteristics of deer, pronghorn, and sheep-goat with notes on Bos and Bison. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University 35(3), whole issue.
41. Lawrence, B. (1973). Problems in the inter-site comparisons of faunal remains. In J. Matolcsi (Ed.), Domestikationsforschung und geschichte der haustiere (pp. 397-402). Budapest: Akademiai Kiado.
42. Lindzey, F. G. (1982). Badger. In J. A. Chapman & G. A. Feldhamer (Eds.), Wild mammals of North America: biology, management, and economics (pp. 653-663). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
43. Lister, A. M. (1996). The morphological distinction between bones and teeth of fallow deer (Dama dama) and red deer (Cervus elaphus). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 6, 119-143.
44. Lyman, R. L. (1986). On the analysis and interpretation of species list data in zooarchaeology. Journal of Ethnobiology, 6, 67-81.
45. Lyman, R. L. (1988). Zoogeography of Oregon coast mammals: the last 3000 years. Marine Mammal Science, 4, 247-264.
46. Lyman, R. L. (2002). Taxonomic identification of zooarchaeological remains. The Review of Archaeology, 23, 13-20.
47. Lyman, R. L. (2006). Paleozoology in the service of conservation biology. Evolutionary Anthropology, 15, 11-19.
48. Lyman, R. L. (2008). Quantitative paleozoology. New York: Cambridge University Press.
49. Lyman, R. L. (2010). Paleozoology's dependence on natural history collections. Journal of Ethnobiology, 30, 126-136.
50. Lyman, R. L. (2011a). Comment on Identification, classification, and zooarchaeology. Ethnobiology Letters, 2, 33-34.
51. Lyman, R. L. (2011b). A history of paleoecological research on sea otters and pinnipeds of the eastern Pacific rim. In T. J. Braje & T. C. Rick (Eds.), Human impacts on seals, sea lions, and sea otters: integrating archaeology and ecology in the northeast Pacific (pp. 19-40). Berkeley: University of California Press.
52. Lyman, R. L. (2012a). A historical sketch on the concepts of archaeological association, context, and provenience. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 19, 207-240.
53. Lyman, R. L. (2012b). Human-behavioral and paleoecological implications of terminal Pleistocene fox remains at the Marmes Site (45FR50), eastern Washington state, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews, 41, 39-48.
54. Maschner, H. D. G., Betts, M. W., & Schou, C. D. (2011). Virtual Zooarchaeology of the Arctic Project (VZAP). SAA Archaeological Record, 11, 41-43.
55. Maxwell, J. A. (1992). Understanding and validity in qualitative research. Harvard Educational Review, 62, 279-300.
56. Meagher, M. (1986). Bison bison. Mammalian Species, 266, 1-8.
57. Monchot, H., & Gendron, D. (2010). Disentangling long bones of foxes (Vulpes vulpes and Alopex lagopus) from arctic archaeological sites. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37, 799-806.
58. Moss, M. L., & Erlandson, J. M. (2010). Diversity in north Pacific shellfish assemblages: the barnacles of Kit'n'Kaboodle Cave, Alaska. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37, 3359-3369.
59. Moss, M. L., Yang, D. Y., Newsome, S. D., Speller, C. F., McKechnie, I., McMillan, A. D., Losey, R. J., & Koch, P. L. (2006). Historical ecology and biogeography of north Pacific pinnipeds: isotopes and ancient DNA from three archaeological assemblages. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 1, 165-190.
60. Munro, N. D., Bar-Oz, G., & Hill, A. C. (2011). An exploration of character traits and linear measurements from sexing mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) skeletons. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38, 1253-1265.
61. Olsen, S. J. (1968). Fish, amphibian and reptile remains from archaeological sites. Cambridge: Peabody Museum.
62. Pérez-Bendito, D., & Rubio, S. (1999). Quality assurance in environmental analysis. In D. Pérez-Bendito & S. Rubio (Eds.), Environmental analytical chemistry (pp. 35-57). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
63. Randklev, C. R., & Lundeen, B. J. (2012). Prehistoric biogeography and conservation status of threatened freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Unionidae) in the upper Trinity River drainage, Texas. In S. Wolverton & R. L. Lyman (Eds.), Conservation biology and applied zooarchaeology (pp. 68-91). Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
64. Rea, A. M. (1986). Verification and reverification: problems in archaeolofaunal studies. Journal of Ethnobiology, 6, 9-18.
65. Resh, V. H., & Unzicker, J. D. (1975). Water quality monitoring and aquatic organisms: the importance of species identification. Water Pollution Control Federation, 47, 9-19.
66. Reynolds, H. W., Glaholt, R. D., & Hawley, A. W. L. (1982). Bison. In J. A. Chapman & G. A. Feldhamer (Eds.), Wild mammals of North America: biology, management, and economics (pp. 972-1007). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
67. Rick, T. C., & Lockwood, R. (2012). Integrating paleobiology, archaeology, and history to inform biological conservation. Conservation Biology. doi: 10. 1111/j. 1523-1739. 2012. 01920. x.
68. Rick, T. C., Erlandson, J. M., & Vellanoweth, R. L. (2001). Paleocoastal marine fishing on the Pacific coast of the Americas: perspectives from Daisy Cave, California. American Antiquity, 66, 595-613.
69. Searjantson, D. (2009). Birds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
70. Smith, M. L., & Glass, G. V. (1987). Research and evaluation in education and the social sciences. Needham Hieghts: Allyn and Bacon.
71. Szabo, K. (2009). Molluscan remains from Fiji. In G. Clark & A. Anderson (Eds.), The early prehistory of Fiji (pp. 183-211). Canberra: Australia National University Press. Terra Australis No. 31.
72. Tarcan, C. G. (2005). Counting sheep: Fauna, contact, and colonialism at Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, AD 1300 to 1900. Ph. D. Dissertation, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University.
73. Thomas, D. H. (1978). The awful truth about statistics in archaeology. American Antiquity, 43, 231-244.
74. Valentine, K., Duffield, D. A., Patrick, L. E., Hatch, D. R., Butler, V. L., Hall, R. L., & Lehman, N. (2008). Ancient DNA reveals genotypic relationships among Oregon populations of the sea otter (Enhydra lutris). Conservation Genetics, 9, 933-938.
75. von den Driesch, A. (1976). A guide to the measurement of animal bones from archaeological sites. Cambridge: Harvard University Peabody Museum Bulletin No. 1.
76. Winter, G. (2000). A comparative discussion of the notion of 'validity' in qualitative and quantitative research. The Qualitative report, 4, 3/4 http://www. nova. edu/ssss/QR/QR4-3/index. html. Accessed 3 January 2011.
77. Wolverton, S. (2002). Zooarchaeological evidence of prairie taxa in central Missouri during the mid-Holocene. Quaternary Research, 58, 200-204.
78. Wolverton, S. (2008). Harvest pressure and environmental carrying capacity: an ordinal-scale models of effects on ungulate prey. American Antiquity, 73, 179-199.
79. Wolverton, M. L. (2009). Research design, hypothesis testing, and sampling. The Appraisal Journal, 77, 370-382.
80. Wolverton, S., & Lyman, R. L. (Eds.). (2012). Conservation biology and applied zooarchaeology. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
81. Wolverton, S., Randklev, C. R., & Barker, A. (2011). Ethnobiology as a bridge between science and ethics: an applied paleozoological perspective. In E. N. Anderson, D. Pearsall, E. Hunn, & N. Turner (Eds.), Ethnobiology (pp. 115-132). New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
82. Yang, D. Y., Woiderski, J. R., & Driver, J. C. (2005). DNA analysis of archaeological rabbit remains from the American Southwest. Journal of Archaeological Science, 32, 567-578.
83. Zeder, M. A., & Lapham, H. A. (2010). Assessing the reliability of criteria used to identify postcranial bones in sheep, Ovis, and goats, Capra. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37, 2887-2905.