BIOGRAPHIC SKETCH
Elizabeth S. Wing
Florida Museum of Natural History
Gainesville FL 32611
tel. 352 392 1721; FAX 352 392 3698
Education:
1955 B.A. Biology Mount Holyoke College
1957 M.S. Zoology University of Florida
1962 PhD Zoology University of Florida
Present Position:
1961 - present Assistant, Associate, and Full Curator of Zooarcheology, Florida
Museum of Natural History
1979 - present Professor (joint appointment) Anthropology Department, University
of Florida
1988 - present Professor (joint appointment) Zoology Department, University of
Florida
1981 - present U.S. representative to the International Council of Archaeozoology
(ICAZ)
1991 - present Trustee, Society of Ethnobiology
Teaching:
1970 - present on committee of 8 Masters and 24 PhD for candidates in Anthropology,
Zoology, and Latin American Studies
1974 - present chairman of 7 Masters and 8 PhD committees in Anthropology,
Zoology, and Latin American Studies
Major Grants:
1961-1964 National Science Foundation Grant (GS284, GS17984) Approaches to the
analysis of Post-Pleistocene environments
1966-1968 N.S.F. (GS1018) Basic economic patterns of prehistoric fishing in the
Caribbean
1968-1970 N.S.F. (GS1954) Utilization of animal resources of the Kotosh site, Peru
1970-1973 N.S.F. (GS3021) Prehistoric man-animal relationships in central Peru
1975-1976 N.S.F. (SOC 74-20634) Prehistoric subsistence patterns
1979-1980 N.S.F. (BNS 7906094) Zooarcheology collections support
1984-1985 N.S.F. (BNS 8406446) Zooarcheology collections support
1989-1992 N.S.F. (BNS 8903377) Subsistence in prehistoric West Indian economies
1995-1997 N.S.F. (SBR 9511302) Improvement of zooarchaeological data
management
Publications:
Wing, E. S. and A. B. Brown. 1979. Paleonutrition. Academic Press. New York.
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. 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. 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.
------. 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.
------. 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.
------. 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.
------. 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.
------. 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.
------. 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.
------. 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.
-----. 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.
Awards: 1996 Fryxell Award for interdisciplinary research from the Society for American
Archaeology