International council for archaeozology, konstaz, germany. Brian S. Shaffer, Zooarchaeology Laboratory, Institute of Applied Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203-6078. (September 26-October 2, 1994)
- Book ID
- 102221375
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 146 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0883-6353
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✦ Synopsis
September 26, 1994 marked the start of the week-long 7th International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) conference held in Konstaz, Germany. ICAZ conferences convene every 4 years and are the only conferences specifically for archaeozoology (zooarchaeology). There were approximately 200 registered participants and 171 scheduled paper and poster presentations at this meeting. Topics reflected many aspects of zooarchaeology with the top three topics in declining order being domestication, subsistence, and taphonomy. Other talks included actualistic studies, ethnography, ethnoarchaeology, seasonality, environmental reconstruction, bone artifacts, methods and techniques, genetics, correlations with prehistoric art, paleopathologies, and the extinctions of various animals. Domestication of animals was the single most common topic. Presentations discussed early finds of domestic animals, variation in animal sizes through time, breeding characteristics, and pathologies associated with domesticated animals. Most of these papers discussed the importance of hoofed animals (cattle, horse, sheep, goats, and pigs), but several papers focused on domesticated dogs. One surprising paper by 0. J. Polaco and A. F. Guzman reported the first prehistoric New World evidence for the penning and breeding of rabbits. Penning data, combined with the skeletal data, indicate the possible beginning of domestication of cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus sp.) before this process was interrupted by Spanish conquest.
Nicholas J. Conrad discussed the remains of Neanderthal diets from several open-