Elizabeth S Wing
Biographic Data
| ID | 159305 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth S Wing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth S |
| FAMILY NAME | Wing |
| SIGNATURE | WING E S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Museum of Natural History |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Zooarchaeology
This leading textbook introduces students and practitioners to the identification and analysis of animal remains at archaeology sites. The authors use global examples from the Pleistocene era into the present to explain how zooarchaeology allows us to form insights about relationships among people and their natural and social environments, especially site-formation processes, economic strategies, domestication, and paleoenvironments. This new edi…
Historia de un campamento del Horizonte Medio de Huarmey, Perú (PV35-4)
Se presenta el estudio de un campamento temporal del Horizonte Medio situado en el desierto costero peruano al norte del valle de Huarmey. Se ha excavado la parte central del mismo pues presentaba la mayor cantidad de basura y dos fogones. Se ha podido establecer a base de la cerámica encontrada, que el sitio corresponde al Horizonte Medio 3. Los artefactos hallados son muy pocos, lo que es lógico dada la corta ocupación del sitio. Sin embargo se…
Zooarchaeology
This is an introductory text for students interested in identification and analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites. The emphasis is on animals whose remains inform us about the relationship between humans and their natural and social environments, especially site formation processes, subsistence strategies, the processes of domestication, and paleoenvironments. Examining examples from all over the world, from the Pleistocene period u…
On Land and Sea: Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies
El Precerámico medio de Huarmey: Historia de un sitio (pv35-106)
PV35-106 es el único sitio correspondiente al Precerámico medio que se ha podido ubicar en el área de Huarmey. Presenta la característica de tener una industria lítica muy particular, compuesta fundamentalmente por piezas astilladas y guijarros con golpe bipolar. El fechado radiocarbónico calibrado nos da para este yacimiento un lapso de tiempo que oscila entre cal. 5750 y cal. 4950 años a.C. A juzgar por los restos recuperados en las excavacione…
The sustainability of resources used by Native Americans on four Caribbean islands
Changes in the subsistence economies during the 2000-year colonization of the Leeward and Virgin islands are discussed. The colonists migrated from northern South America with traditions for producing ceramics, engaging in horticulture, fishing, gathering, and managing captive animals. Based on analysis of pairs of faunal samples from four islands, I am able to show some consistent changes in the relative abundances of some species, the sizes of …
Ritual Rodents: The Guinea Pigs of Chincha, Peru
Guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) are small rodents that function as food, diagnostic medical devices, divinatory agents, and sacrifices in the Andes today. The ethnohistorical record for the region records similar uses of guinea pigs during the Colonial Period. Most archaeologists have assumed that they fulfilled the Same functions in prehispanic time, but rigorous support for this assumption has not been presented. After reviewing the archaeologica…
Un sitio precerámico de Huarmey (PV35-6) antes de la introducción del maíz
A preceramic site near Huarmey (PV 35-6) before the introduction of maize Abstract An attempt is made to reconstruct the history of a preceramic site on the Peruvian north-central coast that was inhabited during the third millenium BC. The site and the materials recovered are described in this article. The botanical remains indicate that this occupation belonged to a transitional phase between the early preceramic epoch, when the first domesticat…
Excavations at Heywoods, Barbados, and the Economic Basis of the Suazoid Period in the Lesser Antilles
The Suazoid period lasted some three hundred years ( c . AD 1100–1400) in a small geographic area in the Lesser Antilles from Tobago to Southern Martinique. Defined by a relatively narrow ceramic series, the people represented by this material are still poorly understood. Deriving from peoples from mainland South America, they evolved a marine-based settlement area of some 35,000 square miles including six main islands and many smaller ones. This…
Prehistoric Foodways
Gilbert, Robert I., Jr., and James H. Mielke, eds. The Analysis of Prehistoric Diets. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press, 1985. xiv + 436 pp. including chapter bibliographies and index. $65.00 cloth
Application of Allometry to Zooarchaeology
Zooarchaeologists have used several methods to assess the relative dietary contribution of species found at archaeological sites. The most common methods are either based upon the assumption that bone weight is a fixed percentage of total body weight, or require estimating an 'average' body size for identified taxa. In fact, the relationship between parameters of bone and body mass is generally allometric and can be described by linear regression…
The Analysis of Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites
Quantitative Zooarchaeology: Topics in the Analysis of Archaeological Faunas
Discusses the problems involved in the quantification of bones and teeth from archaeological and paleontological sites. The text deals with the units that are routinely used to measure the abundances of the animals that contributed their remains to produce a given faunal assemblage. The ways in which faunal analysis can detect, and perhaps avoid, the aberrations that characterize those measurements are examined. -- AATA
Maya and their animals
Hamblin, Nancy L. Animal Use by the Cozumel Maya. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1984. vii + 206 pp. including references and index. $23.00 cloth
Omnivorous Primates: Gathering and Hunting in Human Evolution . Robert S. O. Harding and Geza Teleki , eds
Faunal Remains
The Earliest Lowland Maya? Definition of the Swasey Phase
Recent excavations in Belize have resulted in the discovery of an earlier period of sedentary occupation than has hitherto been documented in the Maya Lowlands. The Swasey phase is stratigraphically antecedent to occupations of the early Middle Formative, the earliest horizon located until now, and associated radiocarbon dates suggest a persistence from 2000-1000 b.c./2500-1300 B.C. The ceramic and lithic material culture of the phase are describ…
Use of Dogs for Food: An Adaptation to the Coastal Environment
Animal Domestication in the Andes
La Domesticación de Animales en los Andes
En el hemisferio occidental la domesticación de animales está focalizada en los Andes. En comparación con el cercano oriente, que es otro centro de domesticación, el origen de la andina es poco conocido. Esto puede deberse, en parte, al hecho de que los animales domesticados en sudamérica no tuvieron la importancia económica de los animales del Viejo Mundo, por lo que su estudio no ha sido un problema urgente. Sin embargo el centro andino de dome…
Fish Remains in Archaeology: A Comment on Casteel
Casteel's contention that fish remains can yield information on territorial exploitation can be expanded to include inferences about the necessary technology
Archeology: Fish, Amphibian and Reptile Remains from Archaeological Sites. Part I: Southeastern and Southwestern United States. Stanley J. Olsen
Application of Allometry to Zooarchaeology
Zooarchaeologists have used several methods to assess the relative dietary contribution of species found at archaeological sites. The most common methods are either based upon the assumption that bone weight is a fixed percentage of total body weight, or require estimating an 'average' body size for identified taxa. In fact, the relationship between parameters of bone and body mass is generally allometric and can be described by linear regression…
The Earliest Lowland Maya? Definition of the Swasey Phase
Recent excavations in Belize have resulted in the discovery of an earlier period of sedentary occupation than has hitherto been documented in the Maya Lowlands. The Swasey phase is stratigraphically antecedent to occupations of the early Middle Formative, the earliest horizon located until now, and associated radiocarbon dates suggest a persistence from 2000-1000 b.c./2500-1300 B.C. The ceramic and lithic material culture of the phase are describ…
Ritual Rodents: The Guinea Pigs of Chincha, Peru
Guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) are small rodents that function as food, diagnostic medical devices, divinatory agents, and sacrifices in the Andes today. The ethnohistorical record for the region records similar uses of guinea pigs during the Colonial Period. Most archaeologists have assumed that they fulfilled the Same functions in prehispanic time, but rigorous support for this assumption has not been presented. After reviewing the archaeologica…
The sustainability of resources used by Native Americans on four Caribbean islands
Changes in the subsistence economies during the 2000-year colonization of the Leeward and Virgin islands are discussed. The colonists migrated from northern South America with traditions for producing ceramics, engaging in horticulture, fishing, gathering, and managing captive animals. Based on analysis of pairs of faunal samples from four islands, I am able to show some consistent changes in the relative abundances of some species, the sizes of …
La Domesticación de Animales en los Andes
En el hemisferio occidental la domesticación de animales está focalizada en los Andes. En comparación con el cercano oriente, que es otro centro de domesticación, el origen de la andina es poco conocido. Esto puede deberse, en parte, al hecho de que los animales domesticados en sudamérica no tuvieron la importancia económica de los animales del Viejo Mundo, por lo que su estudio no ha sido un problema urgente. Sin embargo el centro andino de dome…
Excavations at Heywoods, Barbados, and the Economic Basis of the Suazoid Period in the Lesser Antilles
The Suazoid period lasted some three hundred years ( c . AD 1100–1400) in a small geographic area in the Lesser Antilles from Tobago to Southern Martinique. Defined by a relatively narrow ceramic series, the people represented by this material are still poorly understood. Deriving from peoples from mainland South America, they evolved a marine-based settlement area of some 35,000 square miles including six main islands and many smaller ones. This…
Fish Remains in Archaeology: A Comment on Casteel
Casteel's contention that fish remains can yield information on territorial exploitation can be expanded to include inferences about the necessary technology
Archeology: Fish, Amphibian and Reptile Remains from Archaeological Sites. Part I: Southeastern and Southwestern United States. Stanley J. Olsen
Fish Remains in Archaeology: A Comment on Casteel
Casteel's contention that fish remains can yield information on territorial exploitation can be expanded to include inferences about the necessary technology
La Domesticación de Animales en los Andes
En el hemisferio occidental la domesticación de animales está focalizada en los Andes. En comparación con el cercano oriente, que es otro centro de domesticación, el origen de la andina es poco conocido. Esto puede deberse, en parte, al hecho de que los animales domesticados en sudamérica no tuvieron la importancia económica de los animales del Viejo Mundo, por lo que su estudio no ha sido un problema urgente. Sin embargo el centro andino de dome…
Use of Dogs for Food: An Adaptation to the Coastal Environment
Animal Domestication in the Andes
The Earliest Lowland Maya? Definition of the Swasey Phase
Recent excavations in Belize have resulted in the discovery of an earlier period of sedentary occupation than has hitherto been documented in the Maya Lowlands. The Swasey phase is stratigraphically antecedent to occupations of the early Middle Formative, the earliest horizon located until now, and associated radiocarbon dates suggest a persistence from 2000-1000 b.c./2500-1300 B.C. The ceramic and lithic material culture of the phase are describ…
Faunal Remains
Omnivorous Primates: Gathering and Hunting in Human Evolution . Robert S. O. Harding and Geza Teleki , eds
Maya and their animals
Hamblin, Nancy L. Animal Use by the Cozumel Maya. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1984. vii + 206 pp. including references and index. $23.00 cloth
Application of Allometry to Zooarchaeology
Zooarchaeologists have used several methods to assess the relative dietary contribution of species found at archaeological sites. The most common methods are either based upon the assumption that bone weight is a fixed percentage of total body weight, or require estimating an 'average' body size for identified taxa. In fact, the relationship between parameters of bone and body mass is generally allometric and can be described by linear regression…
The Analysis of Animal Bones from Archaeological Sites
Quantitative Zooarchaeology: Topics in the Analysis of Archaeological Faunas
Discusses the problems involved in the quantification of bones and teeth from archaeological and paleontological sites. The text deals with the units that are routinely used to measure the abundances of the animals that contributed their remains to produce a given faunal assemblage. The ways in which faunal analysis can detect, and perhaps avoid, the aberrations that characterize those measurements are examined. -- AATA
Prehistoric Foodways
Gilbert, Robert I., Jr., and James H. Mielke, eds. The Analysis of Prehistoric Diets. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press, 1985. xiv + 436 pp. including chapter bibliographies and index. $65.00 cloth
Un sitio precerámico de Huarmey (PV35-6) antes de la introducción del maíz
A preceramic site near Huarmey (PV 35-6) before the introduction of maize Abstract An attempt is made to reconstruct the history of a preceramic site on the Peruvian north-central coast that was inhabited during the third millenium BC. The site and the materials recovered are described in this article. The botanical remains indicate that this occupation belonged to a transitional phase between the early preceramic epoch, when the first domesticat…
Excavations at Heywoods, Barbados, and the Economic Basis of the Suazoid Period in the Lesser Antilles
The Suazoid period lasted some three hundred years ( c . AD 1100–1400) in a small geographic area in the Lesser Antilles from Tobago to Southern Martinique. Defined by a relatively narrow ceramic series, the people represented by this material are still poorly understood. Deriving from peoples from mainland South America, they evolved a marine-based settlement area of some 35,000 square miles including six main islands and many smaller ones. This…
Ritual Rodents: The Guinea Pigs of Chincha, Peru
Guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) are small rodents that function as food, diagnostic medical devices, divinatory agents, and sacrifices in the Andes today. The ethnohistorical record for the region records similar uses of guinea pigs during the Colonial Period. Most archaeologists have assumed that they fulfilled the Same functions in prehispanic time, but rigorous support for this assumption has not been presented. After reviewing the archaeologica…
El Precerámico medio de Huarmey: Historia de un sitio (pv35-106)
PV35-106 es el único sitio correspondiente al Precerámico medio que se ha podido ubicar en el área de Huarmey. Presenta la característica de tener una industria lítica muy particular, compuesta fundamentalmente por piezas astilladas y guijarros con golpe bipolar. El fechado radiocarbónico calibrado nos da para este yacimiento un lapso de tiempo que oscila entre cal. 5750 y cal. 4950 años a.C. A juzgar por los restos recuperados en las excavacione…
The sustainability of resources used by Native Americans on four Caribbean islands
Changes in the subsistence economies during the 2000-year colonization of the Leeward and Virgin islands are discussed. The colonists migrated from northern South America with traditions for producing ceramics, engaging in horticulture, fishing, gathering, and managing captive animals. Based on analysis of pairs of faunal samples from four islands, I am able to show some consistent changes in the relative abundances of some species, the sizes of …
Zooarchaeology
This is an introductory text for students interested in identification and analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites. The emphasis is on animals whose remains inform us about the relationship between humans and their natural and social environments, especially site formation processes, subsistence strategies, the processes of domestication, and paleoenvironments. Examining examples from all over the world, from the Pleistocene period u…
On Land and Sea: Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies
Historia de un campamento del Horizonte Medio de Huarmey, Perú (PV35-4)
Se presenta el estudio de un campamento temporal del Horizonte Medio situado en el desierto costero peruano al norte del valle de Huarmey. Se ha excavado la parte central del mismo pues presentaba la mayor cantidad de basura y dos fogones. Se ha podido establecer a base de la cerámica encontrada, que el sitio corresponde al Horizonte Medio 3. Los artefactos hallados son muy pocos, lo que es lógico dada la corta ocupación del sitio. Sin embargo se…
Zooarchaeology
This leading textbook introduces students and practitioners to the identification and analysis of animal remains at archaeology sites. The authors use global examples from the Pleistocene era into the present to explain how zooarchaeology allows us to form insights about relationships among people and their natural and social environments, especially site-formation processes, economic strategies, domestication, and paleoenvironments. This new edi…
Geography (14 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · History (12 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Biology (11 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (7 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (5 works) · Fishery (5 works) · Art (4 works)