Staff Spotlight
Dr. Elizabeth S. Wing
Curator Emeritus, Environmental Archaeology
114 Dickinson Hall
Museum Road & Newell Drive
Gainesville, FL 32611
(352) 273-2101
Email: ewing@flmnh.ufl.edu
Ph.D. Zoology, University of Florida, 1962
FLMNH Environmental Archaeology Collection
Research Interests
Elizabeth S. Wing continues to be active in the Environmental Archaeology Program. She initiated a program of zooarchaeology in 1961 and over the years guided the division through its evolution to the Environmental Archaeology program. Wing continues her research on the human uses of animals in the southeastern North America, the origins and spread of domestic animals in the Andes, and the overexploitation of animals as well as management of captive and domestic animals in the Caribbean. This research requires the collection of specimens of modern animals to use as a reference for identification of the fragmentary remains excavated from the archaeological sites.
Representative Publications
Wing, E. S. and S. R. Wing. 1995. Prehistoric ceramic age adaptation to varying diversity of animal resources along the West Indian archipelago. Journal of Ethnobiology 15(1):119-148.
Wing, E. S. 1995. Rice rats and Saladoid people as seen at Hope Estate. Pp. 219-231 Proceedings of the 15 International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, San Juan Puerto Rico.
Wing, E. S. 1994. The past, present, and future of paleonutritional research. Pp. 309-317 in Paleonutrition: the diet and health of prehistoric Americans (K. D. Sobolik, ed.). Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper No. 22. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Wing, E. S. 1993. The realm between wild and domestic. Pp. 243-250 in Skeletons in her Cupboard (A. Clason, S. Payne, H.-P. Uerpman, eds.). Oxford Monograph 34. Oxford.
Wing, E. S. 1992. La fauna de vertébratés. various pages in Préhistoire de la Côte Nord du Pérou (C. Chauchat). Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Cahiers du Quaternaire No. 18. Paris.
Wing, E. S. 1991. Dog remains from the Sorcé Site on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico. Pp. 379-386 in Beamers, Bobwhites, and Blue-Points (J.R. Purdue, W. E. Klippel, B. W. Stiles, eds.) Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers Vol. 23 University of Tennessee Report 52. Springfield Illinois.
Wing, E. S. 1989. Human use of canids in the central Andes. Pp. 256-278 in Advances in Neotropical Mammalogy (J. Eisenberg and K. Redford, eds.) Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville Florida.
Wing, E. S. 1989 Human exploitation of animals in the Caribbean. Pp. 137-152 in Biogeography of the West Indies (C. A. Woods, ed.) Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville Florida.
Wing, E. S. and J. C. Wheeler, eds. 1988. Economic prehistory of the Central Andes. British Archaeological Report, International Series 427 Oxford.
Wing, E. S. 1987. Integration of floral and faunal data from Hontoon Island, Florida. Archaeozoologia. Actes du 5e Congress International d'Archéozoologie de Bordeaux 1(1):127-136.
Wing, E. S. 1986. The domestication of animals in the high Andes. Pp. 246-264 in High Altitude Biogeography (F. Vuillemier and M. Monasterio, eds.) Oxford University Press. Oxford.
Wing, E. S. and A. B. Brown. 1979. Paleonutrition. Academic Press. New York.