Zooarchaeology Collections
Ongoing Research
- Economics of natural resource use at the Classic Maya site of Motul de San Jose, Guatemala.
- Use of environmental products for subsistence and expression of status in areas of developing social complexity in Mesoamerica (Guatemala and Honduras).
- Subsistence, social status, and animal resource access at Early to Terminal Classic Maya sites in Guatemala and Honduras.
- Seasonal indicators for hunting, fishing, and gathering activities at sites.
- Prehistoric human-environment relationships in subtropical, coastal, southwest Florida.
- The historic period and the balance between the use of wild animals and introduced European domestic ones.
- Paleoindian and Archaic period uses of animals on the coast of Peru.
- Oxygen-18 isotopes and Calcium-Strontium ratios from archaeological M. campechiensis shells as indicators of climate change.
- Animal use and environmental change at coastal and glades sites of the Everglades National Park.
Previous Research
- Carbon isotopes in Mesoamerican deer bones as a measure of environmental change.
- Animal use by the ancient Maya as indicators of social changes (Colonial contact, Maya collapse).
- Origins of animal domestication in the Andes.
- Prehistoric sites in the West Indies.
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