Since the 19th century, the study of shell middens has played an important role in
archaeological research. Shell midden and broader coastal archaeology have transformed …

The use of body size as an index of prey rank in zooarchaeology has fostered a widely
applied approach to understanding variability in foraging efficiency. This approach has …

By integrating foraging models developed in behavioral ecology with measures of variability
in faunal remains, zooarchaeological studies have made important contributions toward …

Archaeological evidence of the use of anadromous salmonids is widespread across
northeastern Asia, Beringia, and well into the northwestern portion of North America. Here it …

This paper presents new zooarcheological data examining the relative abundances of
artiodactyl and leporid remains from Holocene-aged sites in the Bonneville basin. Prior …

Many archaeologists now generally accept the idea that Paleoindians initially entered the
Americas traversing the northwestern coastline possibly in conjunction with an ice-free …

Indices of taxonomic abundance are commonly used by zooarchaeologists to examine
resource intensification, overexploitation and gender-divisions in foraging labor. The original …

All existing sea otter, Enhydra lutris, populations have suffered at least one historic
population bottleneck stemming from the fur trade extirpations of the eighteenth and …

Abstract The maritime fur trade (1785–1840s) led to the local extinction of sea otters
(Enhydra lutris) in many parts of the northeast Pacific. On the basis of studies of extant sea …

The decisions that people make about where to ettle on a landscape are influenced by
climate, esource distribution, religion, cultural and ecomic factors, technological …