Meetings:
The ACZ is meeting every other Thursday while we are organizing the
Alaska Anthropological Association meetings. We will be meeting
February 4
February 18
March 4
March 18
We meet at the Cafe del Mundo on Benson
Street near Fly Paper and Classic Toys at
5:30pm.
Workshop:
The
2010 workshop will be in Anchorage on March 24th. The topic will be
Pleistocene Mammals. Information about the workshop is available on the
Workshop page.
CHRISTINA JENSEN SCHOLARSHIP
We established a scholarship
in Christina Jensen's name to help a student working on a
zooarchaeological project. Christina Jensen was a graduate student at
the University of Alaska Anchorage who was an active member of the
Alaska Consortium of Zooarchaeologists and was specializing in
zooarchaeology in her graduate studies. She passed away in the
summer of 2005 and the members of ACZ created a scholarship in her
memory. We welcome any donations to apply toward her
scholarship. The scholarship is open to any student working on
zooarchaeological research who is also a member of the Alaska
Anthropological Association. The deadline is February 15, 2010.
2006 Ross Smith, from Portland State University. He was examining the effect of fish bone density on the representation of fish taxa and fish element representation in archaeological sites from the North Pacific coast. He used Dual-Energy X-ray Absorpitometry (DEXA) to measure bone density from Pacific cod, halibut, and salmon elements.
2007 Cody Strathe, is a graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Strathe is working with the fauna from Mink Island, Alaska. Mink Island is the oldest dated site in the Amalik Bay National Historic Landmark in Katmai National Park and Preserve. Specifically, Strathe is analyzing harbor seal bones for stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in order to develop a proxy of marine ecosystem productivity during past millennia.
2008 Kelly Eldridge,
is a graduate student at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Eldridge
is
working with the fauna from Zapadni, an early Russian period site on
St. Paul Island in the Pribilof Islands, Alaska. She will be
determining meat weights using modern fur seals, and will be comparing
the fur seal remains from the site to modern specimens to determine if
there are differences that may be related to climate changes at the end
of the Little Ice Age.
2009 Travis Shinabarger, is a graduate student at the University of Alaska Anchorage working on fauna from Kotzebue, Alaska.
2010 Are you next??
Lee Post has several skeleton
building books available at $34.00 per copy (price includes shipping
and handling). You can order
directly from Lee Post.
Lee has a new book Bone Builder's Notebook or more than you
really wanted to know about preparing animal skeletons for articulation.
It covers everything from cleaning skeletons and degreasing them,
articulating study skeletons, to repairing the study skeletons.
It is a particularly wonderful resource for zooarchaeologists trying to
figure out how to prepare the skeletons for a comparative collection.
He talks about preparing skeletons using dermestids, boiling (with a
bird skeleton boiling time chart), maceration, composting, etc.
This volume is larger than his other books and sells for $50.
Mystery bones:
If you have something that is making you crazy send a jpg photograph in and will give it a try. Send your message and photograph to alaskacz@akzooarch.org
Medullary Bone. Christine LeFevre was kind enough to send us some pictures of bird medullary bone.
New books:
Recent Mammals of Alaska by Stephen O. McDonald and Joseph A. Cook.
2009. University of Alaska Press.
Quantitative Paleozoology by R. Lee Lyman. 2008. Cambridge
University Press.
Identification of Waterfowl Breastbones and Avian Osteology (Sterna) of North American Anseriformes, by David W. Oates, ed. D. Boyd, and Jennifer S. Ramarkers. 2003. Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville.
Innovations in assessing season of capture, age and sex of archaeofaunas, Anne Pike-Tay, editor. ArcaeoZoologia, Vol. XI/1.2. Available from Oxbow Books
The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific, by Milton S. Love, Mary Yoklavich, and Lyman Thorsteinson. 2002. University of California Press, Berkeley
Fishes of Alaska by Catherine W. Mecklenburg, T. Anthony Mecklenburg and Lyman K. Thorsteinson.2002. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.
Recent
articles by members:
Hanson, Diane K. 2009. Salmon
and Models of Social Complexity on the Northwest Coast. North Pacific
Prehistory. 2:
Corbett,
Debra G., Douglas Causey, Mark Clementz, Paul L.
Koch, Angela Doroff, Christine LeFevre, and
Darwent, Christyann M. 2006 Reassessing the Old Whaling Locality at Cape Krusenstern, Alaska. In: Dynamics of Northern Societies. Proceedings of the SILA/NABO Conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology, Copenhagen, May 10th–14th, 2004, edited by Jette Arneborg and Bjarne Grønnow, pp. 95–102. PNM, Publications from the National Museum , Studies in Archaeology and History, Vol. 10, Copenhagen.
Darwent, John, and Christyann M. Darwent. 2005 The Occupational History of the Old Whaling Site at Cape Krusenstern . Alaska Journal of Anthropology 3(2):135–153.
Darwent, Cristyann M. and John Darwent. 2004. Where the muskox roamed: biography of tundra muskox (Ovibos muschatus) in the eastern arctic. In Zooarchaeology and Conservation Biology. Edited by R. Lee Lyman and Kenneth P. Canon. Univ of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. Pp. 61-87.
Darwent, Christyann M. 2002. The highs and lows of high arctic mammals: temporal change and regional variability in paleoeskimo subsistence. Colonization, Migration, and Marginal Areas. Edited by Mondini, M., Munoz, S., and Wickler, S. 9th ICAZ Conference, Durham. Pp. 62-73.
Etnier, Michael A. 2004. The potential of zooarchaeological data to guide pinniped management decisions in the Eastern North Pacific. In: Zooarchaeology and Conservation Biology, edited by R.L. Lyman and K.P. Cannon, pp 88-102. Univ. of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Kopperl, Robert E. 2003. Cultural complexity and resource intensification on Kodiak Island, Alaska. PhD Dissertation, Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Washington, Seattle.
Endicott, Neal and Robert Ackerman. 2004. Microtene fauna from the Lime Hills cave, SW Alaska. Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology meeting.
Darwent, Christyanne. 2001. High Arctic Paleoeskimo Fauna: Temporal Changes and Regional Differences. Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia. PhD Dissertation.
Etnier, Michael A. 2002. The effects of human hunting on northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) migration and breeding distributions in the Late Holocene. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington.
Etnier, M. A. 2002. Occurrences of Guadalupe fur seals (Arctocephalus townsendi) on the Washington coast over the past 500 years. Marine Mammal Science 18(2):551-557.
Larson, S., R. Jameson, M. Etnier, M. Fleming, and P. Bentzen 2002. Loss of genetic diversity in sea otters (Enhydra lutris) associated with the fur trade of the 18th and 19th centuries. Molecular Ecology 11(10):1899-1904.
Morin, P.A., LeDuc, R.G., Robertson, K.M., Hedrick , N.M. , Perrin, W.F., Etnier, M., Wade, P., and Taylor, B.L. 2006. Genetic analysis of killer whale (Orcinus orca) historical bone and tooth samples to identify western U.S. ecotypes. Marine Mammal Science 22(4): 897-909.
Saleeby, Becky. 2002. Out of place bones: beyond the study of prehistoric subsistence. J. Arctic Research. Fall.