Ashley N Coutu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1418692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashley N Coutu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashley N |
| FAMILY NAME | Coutu |
| SIGNATURE | COUTU A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5007-6914 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Rusting Metal Behemoth, Within the Crumbling Masonry of Empire”: Addressing Sugar Plantations as Sites of Forgetting on the Island of Saint Lucia
The cultural memory of the transatlantic slave trade has received significant attention in recent years through both the raising and removal of monuments across the Atlantic world. However, dominant modes of remembrance have tended to neglect the Caribbean island landscapes and places upon which slavery took place. In the Anglophone Caribbean, statues and memorials have tended to focus on significant male liberators and warriors—such as “Bussa” i…
The Trade, Use, and Circulation of Elephant Ivory in Sub-Saharan Africa over the Longue Durée
Humans have utilized and exchanged ivory from different species of elephant living on the African continent for millennia, with ivory from both forest and savannah species being exploited. Starting around 4600 bp, elephant ivory sourced on the African continent also began to be exported to other parts of the world. The ways of working ivory, the uses to which it has been put, and its symbolic and representational meanings have all varied accordin…
Historic Molecules Connect the Past to Modern Conservation
This chapter explores the use of isotope analysis to bridge the knowledge gap between contemporary wildlife conservation management and the ecology of the African elephant in its historic landscape. Case studies from eastern and southern Africa focus on isotope analysis as it has been used to understand diet, movement, and environmental conditions of elephant populations over longer time scales than is possible with observational studies. These c…
Earliest Evidence for the Ivory Trade in Southern Africa: Isotopic and ZooMS Analysis of Seventh–Tenth Century ad Ivory from KwaZulu-Natal
KwaGandaganda, Ndondondwane and Wosi were major Early Farming Community settlements in what is today the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. These sites have yielded, among other remains, abundant evidence of ivory and ivory working dating to the seventh–tenth centuries ad, pre-dating by approximately 200 years the better-known ivory artefacts from sites in the Limpopo River Valley and surrounding regions. We report the results of carbon, nit…
Urban Networks and Arctic Outlands: Craft Specialists and Reindeer Antler in Viking Towns
This paper presents the results of the use of a minimally destructive biomolecular technique to explore the resource networks behind one of the first specialized urban crafts in early mediaeval northern Europe: the manufacture of composite combs of deer antler. The research incorporates the largest application of species identification by peptide mass fingerprinting (ZooMS) to a mediaeval artefact assemblage: specifically to collections of antler…
The elephant in the room: Mapping the Footsteps of Historic Elephants With Big Game Hunting Collections
This article examines the artefacts of big game hunting in female elephants from East Africa, natural history collections of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A contextual object biography approach is utilized to analyse the life histories of these specimens through the use of archival and isotopic evidence. Emphasis is placed on the example of an elephant shot on Mt Elgon, Kenya, in 1902, parts of which were preserved and shippe…
Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland
Walrus-tusk ivory and walrus-hide rope were highly desired goods in Viking Age north-west Europe. New finds of walrus bone and ivory in early Viking Age contexts in Iceland are concentrated in the south-west, and suggest extensive exploitation of nearby walrus for meat, hide and ivory during the first century of settlement. In Greenland, archaeofauna suggest a very different specialized long-distance hunting of the much larger walrus populations …
Tracing the links between elephants, humans, and landscapes during the nineteenth-century East African ivory trade: A Bioarchaeological Study
Tracing the links between elephants, humans, and landscapes during the nineteenth-century East African ivory trade: a bioarchaeological study. University of York, 2012. During the nineteenth centur
Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland
Walrus-tusk ivory and walrus-hide rope were highly desired goods in Viking Age north-west Europe. New finds of walrus bone and ivory in early Viking Age contexts in Iceland are concentrated in the south-west, and suggest extensive exploitation of nearby walrus for meat, hide and ivory during the first century of settlement. In Greenland, archaeofauna suggest a very different specialized long-distance hunting of the much larger walrus populations …
Urban Networks and Arctic Outlands: Craft Specialists and Reindeer Antler in Viking Towns
This paper presents the results of the use of a minimally destructive biomolecular technique to explore the resource networks behind one of the first specialized urban crafts in early mediaeval northern Europe: the manufacture of composite combs of deer antler. The research incorporates the largest application of species identification by peptide mass fingerprinting (ZooMS) to a mediaeval artefact assemblage: specifically to collections of antler…
Earliest Evidence for the Ivory Trade in Southern Africa: Isotopic and ZooMS Analysis of Seventh–Tenth Century ad Ivory from KwaZulu-Natal
KwaGandaganda, Ndondondwane and Wosi were major Early Farming Community settlements in what is today the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. These sites have yielded, among other remains, abundant evidence of ivory and ivory working dating to the seventh–tenth centuries ad, pre-dating by approximately 200 years the better-known ivory artefacts from sites in the Limpopo River Valley and surrounding regions. We report the results of carbon, nit…
The elephant in the room: Mapping the Footsteps of Historic Elephants With Big Game Hunting Collections
This article examines the artefacts of big game hunting in female elephants from East Africa, natural history collections of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A contextual object biography approach is utilized to analyse the life histories of these specimens through the use of archival and isotopic evidence. Emphasis is placed on the example of an elephant shot on Mt Elgon, Kenya, in 1902, parts of which were preserved and shippe…
Tracing the links between elephants, humans, and landscapes during the nineteenth-century East African ivory trade: A Bioarchaeological Study
Tracing the links between elephants, humans, and landscapes during the nineteenth-century East African ivory trade: a bioarchaeological study. University of York, 2012. During the nineteenth centur
Tracing the links between elephants, humans, and landscapes during the nineteenth-century East African ivory trade: A Bioarchaeological Study
Tracing the links between elephants, humans, and landscapes during the nineteenth-century East African ivory trade: a bioarchaeological study. University of York, 2012. During the nineteenth centur
Urban Networks and Arctic Outlands: Craft Specialists and Reindeer Antler in Viking Towns
This paper presents the results of the use of a minimally destructive biomolecular technique to explore the resource networks behind one of the first specialized urban crafts in early mediaeval northern Europe: the manufacture of composite combs of deer antler. The research incorporates the largest application of species identification by peptide mass fingerprinting (ZooMS) to a mediaeval artefact assemblage: specifically to collections of antler…
The elephant in the room: Mapping the Footsteps of Historic Elephants With Big Game Hunting Collections
This article examines the artefacts of big game hunting in female elephants from East Africa, natural history collections of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A contextual object biography approach is utilized to analyse the life histories of these specimens through the use of archival and isotopic evidence. Emphasis is placed on the example of an elephant shot on Mt Elgon, Kenya, in 1902, parts of which were preserved and shippe…
Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland
Walrus-tusk ivory and walrus-hide rope were highly desired goods in Viking Age north-west Europe. New finds of walrus bone and ivory in early Viking Age contexts in Iceland are concentrated in the south-west, and suggest extensive exploitation of nearby walrus for meat, hide and ivory during the first century of settlement. In Greenland, archaeofauna suggest a very different specialized long-distance hunting of the much larger walrus populations …
Earliest Evidence for the Ivory Trade in Southern Africa: Isotopic and ZooMS Analysis of Seventh–Tenth Century ad Ivory from KwaZulu-Natal
KwaGandaganda, Ndondondwane and Wosi were major Early Farming Community settlements in what is today the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. These sites have yielded, among other remains, abundant evidence of ivory and ivory working dating to the seventh–tenth centuries ad, pre-dating by approximately 200 years the better-known ivory artefacts from sites in the Limpopo River Valley and surrounding regions. We report the results of carbon, nit…
Historic Molecules Connect the Past to Modern Conservation
This chapter explores the use of isotope analysis to bridge the knowledge gap between contemporary wildlife conservation management and the ecology of the African elephant in its historic landscape. Case studies from eastern and southern Africa focus on isotope analysis as it has been used to understand diet, movement, and environmental conditions of elephant populations over longer time scales than is possible with observational studies. These c…
The Trade, Use, and Circulation of Elephant Ivory in Sub-Saharan Africa over the Longue Durée
Humans have utilized and exchanged ivory from different species of elephant living on the African continent for millennia, with ivory from both forest and savannah species being exploited. Starting around 4600 bp, elephant ivory sourced on the African continent also began to be exported to other parts of the world. The ways of working ivory, the uses to which it has been put, and its symbolic and representational meanings have all varied accordin…
A Rusting Metal Behemoth, Within the Crumbling Masonry of Empire”: Addressing Sugar Plantations as Sites of Forgetting on the Island of Saint Lucia
The cultural memory of the transatlantic slave trade has received significant attention in recent years through both the raising and removal of monuments across the Atlantic world. However, dominant modes of remembrance have tended to neglect the Caribbean island landscapes and places upon which slavery took place. In the Anglophone Caribbean, statues and memorials have tended to focus on significant male liberators and warriors—such as “Bussa” i…
Geography (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · History (4 works) · African elephant (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works)