Intensive Training Courses in Zooarchaeology by Katherine M. Moore
Problems and Methods in Zooarchaeology for the Andes
Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, 2020
Intensive course for CAAM, June 1-5 2020
Problems and Methods in Zooarchaeology for the Andes
... more Intensive course for CAAM, June 1-5 2020
Problems and Methods in Zooarchaeology for the Andes
This course is designed for students either planning a field program or approaching an existing zooarchaeology collection from the Andes. The basic research questions in zooarchaeology will be related to field practices of sampling, recovery, and conservation. Students will practice the major tasks of sorting, identification, and data recording using hands-on material. Since metric analysis of long bones is so important in this region, standards, models, and limitations will be covered. Surface modification and histology will be used to reconstruct taphonomic pathways and life history variables. Sampling and interpretation of molecular zooarchaeology data (aDNA and isotopes) will be discussed and sampling protocols demonstrated.
https://www.penn.museum/teachers-and-students/for-penn-students/caam/caam-intensive-courses
Papers by Katherine M. Moore
Permalink: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8d35b0ns ... Keywords: archaeology, anthropology, ritu... more Permalink: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8d35b0ns ... Keywords: archaeology, anthropology, ritual, mound, botany, archaeobotany, faunal remains, microstratigraphy, ethnoarchaeology, bolivia, andes, latin america, south america
Information Bulletin, International Association for the Cultures of Central Asia, UNESCO, Issue 19, 1993
This report is the first description of animal use at a large Bronze Age site in southern Turkmen... more This report is the first description of animal use at a large Bronze Age site in southern Turkmenistan, based on the collaborative Soviet-American excavations carried out in the spring of 1989.
The missing middle: New efforts to understand early inter-zonal connections in the Peruvian Central Andes
The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2016
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Mar 25, 2023
In this study, we assess competing interpretations of a burnt ceremonial structure from the termi... more In this study, we assess competing interpretations of a burnt ceremonial structure from the terminal Middle Formative period (ca. 300-100 BCE) by analyzing the stepped platform mound at Chiripa, Bolivia, through a systematic reconstruction of the fire that destroyed it. We developed a model of potential fire pathways, their social contexts, and material indicators. Our approach contrasts incipient fires from accident or arson to planned fires initiated for functional or social ends. We assessed these pathways for the Chiripa mound fire through experimental, geoarchaeological, faunal, and botanical data. Experiments were aimed at deducing the temperature, duration, and oxidation conditions of the fire. The fire temperature and duration were approximated from geoarchaeological analyses of construction materials in comparison with controls, and thermal alteration of faunal bone. Fuels were reconstructed through paleoethnobotanical analysis of charred remains from discrete areas within the burnt structure. We conclude that an intentional fire burned the structures on the Chiripa mound to temperatures of 700 °C or higher under oxidizing conditions for several hours. The pattern of heat-altered materials recovered would have required a substantial supplemental fuel load. At the 3840 masl elevation of Chiripa, the effective control of a high temperature oxidizing fire demonstrates technical expertise in fire management. Our findings indicate the fire appears intentional, likely a ritual event. We believe the structures were burned to facilitate a socio-political change during a period of social transition at the end of the Middle Formative period in Bolivia.
Hunter’s Paradise or Hypoxic Wasteland? Recent Research in the Pucuncho Basin, Peru
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2018
Results from the recent excavations at the Cuncaicha rock shelter (4480 m above sea level) sugges... more Results from the recent excavations at the Cuncaicha rock shelter (4480 m above sea level) suggest a successful colonization of the Andean highlands by groups of foragers during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene. The discovery of Early and Late Holocene human remains buried in the site brings new opportunities to assess mobility and occupation strategies during this period. In this study, isotopic analysis of strontium (87 Sr /86 Sr) and oxygen (δ 18 O) in faunal and human dental enamel helped to identify the most likely areas where humans obtained food and consumed water during their formative years. Collection of modern plant and water samples also helped to define a reliable background for the mobility analysis within the study area. 87 Sr /86 Sr ratios and δ 18 O on dental enamel showed that Early Holocene humans lived within the Pucuncho Basin and obtained most of their resources from there. Isotopic analyses are an important step for modeling the mobility patterns of the Early Holocene occupants of Cuncaicha.
Map showing location of human remains at Santa Catalina de Guale mission cemetery 21 2-1. Patholo... more Map showing location of human remains at Santa Catalina de Guale mission cemetery 21 2-1. Pathological modifications of Irene Mound tibiae associated with treponematosis ....... 30 2-2. Irene Mound cranial vault pathological modifications associated with treponematosis .... 31 2-3. Irene Mound maxillary pathological modifications associated with treponematosis ...... 32 2-4. Irene Mound vertebrae showing pathological modifications associated with tuberculosis.
American Antiquity, 1990
Using bone-chemistry data, this project sought to assess the degree of dietary change that occurr... more Using bone-chemistry data, this project sought to assess the degree of dietary change that occurred among eastern border Pueblo populations due to prehistoric food exchange with hunter-gatherers on the Plains and to the arrival of Spanish colonists. In so doing we introduce a technique for dietary reconstruction that determines the range of diets compatible with bone-chemistry data from a particular population. The data are derived from samples of modern and archaeological plants and animals collected from the area surrounding Pecos Pueblo, and from archaeological humans recovered from Pecos itself. Bone-strontium concentrations were measured to monitor the relative proportions of meat to vegetables in the diet. Carbon and nitrogen stable-isotope ratios in food items and in bone collagen were measured to monitor the dependence on maize and bison meat. The results do not provide support for the hypothesis that bison replaced mule deer in the diet during the period of significant Plai...
Manq'asiñani: Political Dimensions of Foodways on the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia during the Formative and Tiwanaku Periods
The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2016
Sustainable Lifeways
Sustainable Lifeways naomi f. miller and katherine m. moore A ll organisms and species respond to... more Sustainable Lifeways naomi f. miller and katherine m. moore A ll organisms and species respond to unpredictable variability in their environment. For individual humans and for the societies in which they live, cultural responses to environmental risk are embedded in technology, practice, and ideology. By their collective actions, societies can mitigate or exacerbate immediate and long-term risk in their environment. In addition, all societies, ancient and modern, have to deal with risk on several time scales. The most limited temporal scales concern annual and interannual variability in weather, pests, and other short-term risks. Over decades and longer (referred to here as medium scale), changes in climate, soil conditions, and vegetation cover can be perceived and recorded in intergenerational time. Even longer-term changes in environmental conditions or extremely rare events, like volcanic eruptions, are least likely to be recognized by social groups. Even so, they have a material effect on the ability of those groups to persist. The 2008 Penn Museum International Research Conference "Forces of Nature: Risk and Resilience as Factors of Long-term Cultural Change" addressed these issues. In this volume, we bring the archaeological record to the forefront in understanding the human experience of dynamic environments (Figs. 0.1, 0.2). Even a sustainable system will not be static, because it must respond to changing external conditions and internally generated stresses. But a subtle shift in our
El Precerámico de las punas de Junín: el punto de vista desde Panaulauca
Boletín de Arqueología, 2012
Title: Proyecto Arqueológico Taraco: 2006 Excavaciones en Chiripa, Bolivia ... Author: Hastorf, C... more Title: Proyecto Arqueológico Taraco: 2006 Excavaciones en Chiripa, Bolivia ... Author: Hastorf, Christine A., UC Berkeley Steadman, Lee, Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley Moore, Katherine, University of Pennsylvania Dean, Emily, Southern Utah University ...
Agriculture and herding in the early oasis settlements of the Oxus Civilization
Antiquity, 1994
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Formative Exchange in the Andean Titicaca Basin: Isotopic Camelid Data and Lithic Sourcing: Evidence From the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia
Ñawpa Pacha
Journal of World Prehistory, 1992
Stable isotope ratios of carbon and nitrogen in bone have become increasingly frequent inclusions... more Stable isotope ratios of carbon and nitrogen in bone have become increasingly frequent inclusions in archaeological reports over the past few decades. The majority of such studies has been done in North America, where the use of marine foods and the introduction of maize have been monitored. Similar questions have been addressed in Mesoamerica and South America. In Europe, stable isotope ratios have documented the shift from marine fishing and gathering to agriculture in coastal areas and the introduction of millet in parts of eastern and southern Europe. Much work remains to be done in Asia, where millet replaced early C3 plant foods and, in turn, was replaced by rice. In Africa marine adaptations, freshwater fishing, agriculture, and pastoralism all yieM diagnostic isotopic signatures. We review these studies, discuss areas requiring further study, and close with discussions of areas promising interesting future developments.
Journal of Archaeological Science, 1989
PreHistoric diets may be reconstructed from the chemical and isotopic composition of human bone. ... more PreHistoric diets may be reconstructed from the chemical and isotopic composition of human bone. Collections of human bone from archaeological contexts have been treated with resins, glues, and varnishes to consolidate and strengthen them. The use of such treated bone in chemical analysis for dietary.reconstruction is evaluated. Results are presented of a study of a museum collection that had been treated with a common consolidant, Alvar. Treatments to remove Alvar from bone were successful. In addition, for one collagen preparation technique, such pretreatment was not necessary.
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2014
The Lake Titicaca Basin is one of the regions in the world where both primary village and state f... more The Lake Titicaca Basin is one of the regions in the world where both primary village and state formation occurred in prehistory. Although agriculture has been discussed as the central engine fueling these processes, fish and other aquatic resources were significant but little-understood components of the region's ancient economy. In this paper, we use zooarchaeological analysis of faunal remains from 367 flotation samples recovered from five archaeological sites to discuss the interplay between fishing, environmental change, and the emergence of sociopolitical complexity in the Taraco Peninsula of Lake Titicaca. Our results suggest that fishing comprised a significant component of the local inhabitants' diet between 1500 BC and 1100 AD. The intensity of fish procurement, however, varied through time and independently of both climatic and population change. We interpret variation in fish consumption through time as a product of group and individual decisions to optimize resource use in a context of dynamic environmental and sociopolitical variability.
El Preceramico de la Punas de Junin: El Punto de vista desde Panaulauca
El Perıodo Arcaico en el Peru: Hacia una definicion de …, 1999
EI sitio preceramico de Panaulauca, ubicado en la puna de Junin en la Sierra Central del Peru, es... more EI sitio preceramico de Panaulauca, ubicado en la puna de Junin en la Sierra Central del Peru, es un sitio de mucha importancia para entender la adaptacion de cazadores de altura y su eventual transicion al pastoreo. Nuestras excavaciones en la boca de la cueva de Panaulauca y en su talud, han demostrado una larga ocupacion, comenzando significativamente antes de 7000 A. N. E., y siguiendo quizas hasta tiempos historicos. Se recuperaron datos muy extensos de la industria litica y restos de fauna y flora que se usaron para definir los cambios economicos y sociales a traves de tiempo. Las Jases del Preceramico Temprano tienen evidencia de camelidos con un patron de uso que crece a traves del tiempo, especialmente la vicuna, dentro de un patron de asentamiento que en principio muestra evidencia de cierta movilidad estacional que enJatiza la epoca de Iluvias para Panaulauca. En contraste, llegando al Preceramico Medio y Tardfo se reconocen una ocupacion del sitio a traves de todo el ano y un creciente sedentarismo. La evidencia para una vida principalmetlte basada en el pastoreo en Panaulauca no viene sino hasta el Formativo, aunque siempre se tiene que tener en cuenta que tales cuevas no Jueron los centros de ocupacion en tiempos post-preceramicos.
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Intensive Training Courses in Zooarchaeology by Katherine M. Moore
Problems and Methods in Zooarchaeology for the Andes
This course is designed for students either planning a field program or approaching an existing zooarchaeology collection from the Andes. The basic research questions in zooarchaeology will be related to field practices of sampling, recovery, and conservation. Students will practice the major tasks of sorting, identification, and data recording using hands-on material. Since metric analysis of long bones is so important in this region, standards, models, and limitations will be covered. Surface modification and histology will be used to reconstruct taphonomic pathways and life history variables. Sampling and interpretation of molecular zooarchaeology data (aDNA and isotopes) will be discussed and sampling protocols demonstrated.
https://www.penn.museum/teachers-and-students/for-penn-students/caam/caam-intensive-courses
Papers by Katherine M. Moore