Dear colleagues,
my current area of research is the American Southwest, where many assemblages are dominated by small mammals and where the ratio between small and large mammals has been discussed frequently in the literature (see below for a few references).
We are currently expanding our research to look more generally at the use of small mammals, and particularly the role they play in the subsistence of farming societies. As part of this research we are compiling case studies of zooarchaeological data from various regions and time periods. Although it is fairly easy to find individual site reports, we have had trouble finding summaries of data from large numbers of Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in Europe or the Near East, and we are wondering if anyone can recommend publications that would have the following characteristics:
1. zooarchaeological data from numerous sites within a region
2. either Mesolithic or Neolithic periods
3. provide NISP data on a full range of species, not just large mammals
Any suggestions would be very welcome.
Thanks
Jon Driver
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If you are interested in the Southwest and the debate about small:large mammal ratios, the following references would be useful:
Szuter, Christine R. and Frank E. Bayham
1989 Sedentism and Prehistoric Animal Procurement among Desert Horticulturalists. In Farmers as Hunters: the Implications of Sedentism, edited by Susan Kent, pp. 80–95. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Badenhorst, S. and J. Driver
2009 Faunal changes in farming communities from Basketmaker II to Pueblo III (A.D. 1–1300) in the San Juan Basin of the American Southwest. J. Arch. Sci. 36: 1832–1841
Cannon, Michael D.
2000 Large Mammal Relative Abundance in Pithouse and Pueblo Period Archaeofaunas from Southwestern New Mexico: Resource Depression among the Mimbres–Mogollon? Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19:317–347.
Dean, Rebecca M.
2001 Social Change and Hunting during the Pueblo III to Pueblo IV Transition, East-Central Arizona. Journal of Field Archaeology 28: 271–285.
Janetski, Joel
1997 Fremont Hunting and Resource Intensification in the Eastern Great Basin. Journal of Archaeological Science 24: 1075-1088.
Nelson, Margaret C. and Karen G. Schollmeyer
2003 Game Resources, Social Interaction, and the Ecological Footprint in Southwest New Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 10: 69-110.
Speth, John D. and Susan L. Scott
1989 Horticulture and Large-Mammals Hunting: The Role of Resource Depletion and the Constraints of Time and Labor. In Farmers as Hunters: the Implications of Sedentism, edited by Susan Kent, pp. 71–79. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
And for debates about ratios between small mammals:
Dean, Rebecca 2007 The Lagomorph Index:Rethinking Rabbit Ratios in Hohokam Sites. Kiva 73(1): 7-30.
Driver, Jonathan C. and Joshua Woiderski
2008 Interpretation of the “Lagomorph Index” in the American Southwest. Quaternary International 185(1): 3-11.
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