Zooarchaeology
1 reportZooarchaeology is an archaeological method used to locate, date, document, sample, or interpret material evidence. The method is judged through material analysis, calibration procedure, and sampling strategy, especially where design choices change uncertainty or causal interpretation.
Scientific coverage devoted to Zooarchaeology addresses sources of error; sampling and context; and calibration or reference data. The treatment of calibration or reference data keeps calibration standards separate from blind or comparative tests until their assumptions and scales are compared; the result is bounded by the possibility that disturbance, contamination, and incomplete context can narrow what the method establishes.
Scientific coverage devoted to Zooarchaeology addresses sources of error; sampling and context; and calibration or reference data. The treatment of calibration or reference data keeps calibration standards separate from blind or comparative tests until their assumptions and scales are compared; the result is bounded by the possibility that disturbance, contamination, and incomplete context can narrow what the method establishes.
Ancient DNA Reveals Sex Bias in Ice Age Mammoth Hunting
Genomic analysis of over 500 woolly mammoth remains from Eurasia and North America suggests Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers may have disproportionately targeted female mammoths, raising new questions about prehistoric hunting strategies