Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany Amber M. VanDerwarker ● Tanya M. Peres Editors Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases Editors Amber M. VanDerwarker Tanya M. Peres University of California Middle Tennessee State University Santa Barbara, CA Murfreesboro, TN USA USA [email protected] [email protected] ISBN 978-1-4419-0934-3 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0935-0 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0935-0 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009933116 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Acknowledgments Numerous individuals and institutions played a part in the life of this volume. Funding for the original research at Tres Zapotes, Veracruz, which brought the co- editors together in the first place, was provided by a National Science Foundation Grant (BCS-0242555) to Dr. Christopher Pool, University of Kentucky. We would like to thank Chris for asking us to both be a part of the Tres Zapotes project and scheduling our brief, but significant, overlap at the TZ lab. We are thankful to our home institutions (University of California, Santa Barbara, and Middle Tennessee State University) for financial and professional support in bringing this volume to fruition. We thank several anonymous reviewers for their comments and criticisms on both the original volume prospectus and the final set of chapters, in addition to vari- ous other colleagues who took the time to provide comments and reviews for the volume chapters, specifically Kate Spielmann, Margie Scarry, and Betsy Reitz. The editorial staff at Springer Press, namely Teresa Krauss and Katie Chabalko, have been extremely helpful and supportive throughout this process. We also acknowl- edge Dana Bardolph, who spent many hours patiently checking and formatting a dozen bibliographies. We would be remiss if we did not thank the contributors to the original sympo- sium and to this volume for their dedication, hard work, and endless patience. Finally, none of this would have been possible without the loving support of our families. v Contents Introduction...................................................................................................... 1 Amber M. VanDerwarker and Tanya M. Peres Part I Issues and Methods for Integrating Data Methodological Issues in Zooarchaeology..................................................... 15 Tanya M. Peres Methodological Issues in Paleoethnobotany: A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases............................................ 37 Patti J. Wright Simple Measures for Integrating Plant and Animal Remains..................... 65 Amber M. VanDerwarker Correspondence Analysis and Principal Components Analysis as Methods for Integrating Archaeological Plant and Animal Remains............................................................................. 75 Amber M. VanDerwarker Part II Case Studies Microbotanical and Macrobotanical Evidence of Plant Use and the Transition to Agriculture in Panama........................................ 99 Ruth Dickau Waitui Kei Vanua: Interpreting Sea- and Land-Based Foodways in Fiji............................................................................................... 135 Sharyn Jones and Rhonda Quinn Integrated Contextual Approaches to Understanding Past Activities Using Plant and Animal Remains from Kala Uyuni, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia....................................................... 173 Katherine Moore, Maria Bruno, José M. Capriles, and Christine Hastorf vii viii Contents A Tale of Two Shell Middens: The Natural versus the Cultural in “Obanian” Deposits at Carding Mill Bay, Oban, Western Scotland............................................................................................. 205 László Bartosiewicz, Lydia Zapata, and Clive Bonsall Documenting Subsistence Change During the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition: Investigations of Paleoethnobotanical and Zooarchaeological Data from Dust Cave Alabama............................... 227 Kandace D. Hollenbach and Renee B. Walker In the Light of the Crescent Moon: Reconstructing Environment and Diet from an Ottoman-Period Deposit in Sixteenth to Seventeenth Century Hungary.............................................. 245 Andrea J. Tóth, László Daróczi-Szabó, Zsófia E. Kovács, Erika Gál, and László Bartosiewicz The Farmed and the Hunted: Integrating Floral and Faunal Data from Tres Zapotes, Veracruz............................................. 287 Tanya M. Peres, Amber M. VanDerwarker, and Christopher A. Pool Appendix A....................................................................................................... 309 Index.................................................................................................................. 313 Contributors László Bartosiewicz Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary Clive Bonsall University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Maria C. Bruno Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA José M. Capriles Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA László Daróczi-Szabó Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary Ruth Dickau University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada Erika Gál Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary Christine A. Hastorf University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA Kandace D. Hollenbach University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA Sharyn Jones University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA Zsófia Eszter Kovács Aquincum Museum, Budapest, Hungary Katherine M. Moore University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, USA Tanya M. Peres Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA ix x Contributors Rhonda L. Quinn Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA Andrea Janka Tóth Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary Amber M. VanDerwarker University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Patti J. Wright Springs Preserve, Las Vegas, NV, USA; University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA Lydia Zapata Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Araba, Spain Introduction Amber M. VanDerwarker and Tanya M. Peres We first met in 2004, a pivotal time in both our careers. We had both recently ­finished our PhD work (Peres in 2001 at the University of Florida, VanDerwarker in 2003 at the University of North Carolina), we were both actively searching for academic jobs, and we were both incredibly serious about holistic approaches to food and diet. We began our earnest conversation in the small village of Tres Zapotes, in southern Veracruz, Mexico, in one short week of overlapping travel schedules. We had both been invited to participate in the Tres Zapotes Archaeological Project by Dr. Christopher Pool (University of Kentucky), Tanya as the project zooarchaeologist and Amber as the project paleoethnobotanist. Our one week of overlap began a deep abiding friendship, a productive professional relationship, and laid the groundwork for the development and completion of this volume. What began as a simple idea for integrating our own plant and animal datasets from Tres Zapotes transformed into a much broader and more varied approach to data integration. After much discussion, we decided to test the waters by ­organizing a symposium (“Quantitative Integration of Zooarchaeological and Archaeobotanical Data: A Consideration of Methods and Case Studies”) for the 2006 Society for American Archaeology meetings in Puerto Rico. We solicited papers from a variety of respected scholars and organized a panel of ten presenta- tions covering cases from around the world and dealing with a variety of methods. The panel was well attended and received a great deal of praise; one colleague stated that it was the most useful panel he attended while at the conference. Many colleagues approached us afterwards, voicing praise and emphasizing the need for more integrative studies. The positive feedback that we received following the presentations in 2006 confirmed our instincts to move forward with publishing this volume. Several of the original contributors are included in this volume, and A.M. VanDerwarker () Department of Anthropology, University of California, 1038 HSSB, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106-3210, USA e-mail: [email protected] A.M. VanDerwarker and T.M. Peres (eds.), Integrating Zooarchaeology 1 and Paleoethnobotany: A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0935-0_1, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 2 A.M. VanDerwarker and T.M. Peres several additional colleagues agreed to contribute to help round out the geographi- cal and methodological breadth of the volume. Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany takes the lead in tackling the important issue