TY - JOUR
T1 - Importance of limb bone shaft fragments in zooarchaeology
T2 - A response to "On in situ attrition and vertebrate body part profiles" (2002 , by M.C. Stiner
AU - Pickering, Travis Rayne
AU - Marean, Curtis
AU - Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel
N1 - Funding Information:
TRP owes a great debt of thanks to Henry Bunnfor his mentorship, specifically, and for his seminal taphonomic work, in general, which early-on stressed the importance of including limb bone shaft fragments in zooarchaeological analyses. TRP also thanks the National Science Foundation (SBR 9614930), the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (6109), and the University of Wisconsin Natural History Museums Council for support of the baboon carcass feeding experiments, and T. Broekman, M. Duvenage, R. Emmerich, R. Ghiazza, S. Hall, L. Hes, and B. Jones for assisting in those experiments. Finally, TRP is most grateful to Anneliese, Grace, Evelyn, Robert and Lance Pickering and to Nick Toth and Kathy Schick for continued support and encouragement. The research of CWM was funded by NSF grants SBR-9727491 and SBR-9727668 to Marean. MD-R thanks the Office of the President of Kenya and the Kenyan Wildlife Service for permission to conduct the research reported on here, and also thanks Jack Harris for his continued support. We thank Henry Bunn, Charles Egeland, Richard Klein, Lee Lyman, PatMunson and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper.
PY - 2003/11
Y1 - 2003/11
N2 - M.C. Stiner's (J. Archaeol. Sci. 29 (2002) 979) recent defense of anatomical regions profiling (ARP) prompted this response, because conclusions drawn from a large body of actualistic research, generated by numerous zooarchaeologists over the past 30+ years, are consistent in highlighting the differential survivorship of intra-element portions of limb bone specimens. Further, these results argue for the rigorous identification of limb bone shaft specimens and their systematic inclusion in the analyses of archaeofaunas. Stiner's "flexible hunter-scavenger" model of Neandertal ecology in coastal Italy is based, in part, on results from ARP, a technique that we believe does not fully recognize and incorporate these important findings.
AB - M.C. Stiner's (J. Archaeol. Sci. 29 (2002) 979) recent defense of anatomical regions profiling (ARP) prompted this response, because conclusions drawn from a large body of actualistic research, generated by numerous zooarchaeologists over the past 30+ years, are consistent in highlighting the differential survivorship of intra-element portions of limb bone specimens. Further, these results argue for the rigorous identification of limb bone shaft specimens and their systematic inclusion in the analyses of archaeofaunas. Stiner's "flexible hunter-scavenger" model of Neandertal ecology in coastal Italy is based, in part, on results from ARP, a technique that we believe does not fully recognize and incorporate these important findings.
KW - Actualism
KW - Anatomical regions profiling
KW - Limb bone shaft fragments
KW - Taphonomy
KW - Zooarchaeology
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U2 - 10.1016/S0305-4403(03)00042-6
DO - 10.1016/S0305-4403(03)00042-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0141925239
SN - 0305-4403
VL - 30
SP - 1469
EP - 1482
JO - Journal of Archaeological Science
JF - Journal of Archaeological Science
IS - 11
ER -