Rebecca Dean
Biographic Data
| ID | 3735155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Dean |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Dean |
| SIGNATURE | DEAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota Morris |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4446-2157 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Anthropogenic Environments, Archaeology of
Using Euclidean distance in the comparative analysis of taxonomic abundance
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Jackrabbit Age Profiles as an Indicator of Hunting Behavior: An Example from Southern Arizona
Zooarchaeological data can provide invaluable information about prehistoric social, labor, and economic organization. Ungulate age profiles have long been used to answer anthropological questions about the timing and methods of hunting, but in the western U.S., ungulates may be rare, and archaeological assemblages are frequently dominated by rabbits. Rabbit age profiles have been largely overlooked as a source of information about prehistoric soc…
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The Bom Santo Cave (Lisbon, Portugal): Catchment, Diet, and Patterns of Mobility of a Middle Neolithic Population
The study of the Bom Santo Cave (central Portugal), a Neolithic cemetery, indicates a complex social, palaeoeconomic, and population scenario. With isotope, aDNA, and provenance analyses of raw materials coupled with stylistic variability of material culture items and palaeogeographical data, light is shed on the territory and social organization of a population dated to 3800–3400 cal BC, i.e. the Middle Neolithic. Results indicate an itinerant f…
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The Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in southern Iberia
New data and a review of historiographic information from Neolithic sites of the Malaga and Algarve coasts (southern Iberian Peninsula) and from the Maghreb (North Africa) reveal the existence of a Neolithic settlement at least from 7.5 cal ka BP. The agricultural and pastoralist food producing economy of that population rapidly replaced the coastal economies of the Mesolithic populations. The timing of this population and economic turnover coinc…
The Mesolithic/Neolithic transition on the Costa Vicentina, Portugal
Food and Gender in Fiji: Ethnoarchaeological Explorations by Sharyn Jones
Food and Gender in Fiji: Ethnoarchaeological Explorations by Sharyn Jones." Ethnoarchaeology, 3(1), pp. 105–106
Delicacy or Desperation? Eating Peduncular Barnacles in Neolithic Portugal
Barnacles are a delicacy in some parts of the world, but are seldom recognized as a potential food source by English-speaking archaeologists. Pollicipes pollicipes, a species of peduncular barnacle, is widely eaten along the Atlantic coast of Europe today, and is also common in some archaeological sites in the region. Recognizing and properly recording this barnacle can deepen our understanding of prehistoric coastal adaptations in Europe and oth…
The Lagomorph Index: Rethinking Rabbit Ratios in Hohokam Sites
The Lagomorph Index, a calculation of the relative proportions of cottontail rabbits and jackrabbits, is one of the most widely used analytical tools in Hohokam zooarchaeology. It is only a useful tool, however, if it has a clearly understood relationship to phenomena of archaeological interest. This is not the case, since a variety of social, economic, and environmental factors can affect values of the Lagomorph Index. Using a large database of …
"Hunting intensification and the Hohokam "collapse
Old Bones: The Effects of Curation and Exchange on the Interpretation of Artiodactyl Remains in Hohokam Sites
Dietary choices are one subset of the factors that affect the proportion of artiodactyls in Southwestern faunal assemblages. This study of 23 Hohokam faunal assemblages suggests that, in fact, artiodactyls were highly valued as a source of bone tool material, hides, and ritual paraphernalia. The importance placed on artiodactyls as a source for raw material could lead to their over-representation relative to smaller taxa, due to the curation of t…
Site-Use Intensity, Cultural Modification of the Environment, and the Development of Agricultural Communities in Southern Arizona
Some non-prey animals, including certain rodent and bird species, are particularly good indicators of local environments, and are argued to provide an alternative way to look at the emergence of sedentism before, during, and after the transition to agriculture. With the first villages and irrigated fields, human impacts on the environment opened new ecological niches and affected the composition of local pest populations. Some of these animals wo…
The Early Neolithic Site of Ayn Abū Nukhayla, Southern Jordan
Three seasons of research at the Middle PPNB site of Ayn Abū Nukhayla indicate that it experienced intermittent, seasonal occupations spanning a period of ca. 200 years, centered on 8500 b. p. Despite being located in a hyperarid setting in southern Jordan, the site displays extensive architecture and other evidence of intensive occupation. Settlement of the site appears to have been triggered by a moist pulse that produced sufficient upland run-…
Social Change and Hunting during the Pueblo III to Pueblo IV Transition, East-Central Arizona
The transition from the Pueblo III to the Pueblo IV period (A.D. 1100–1400) in the American Southwest involved marked population aggregation. Diverse economic, political, and religious factors must have played a role in the integration of these populations. Bailey Ruin, Bryant Ranch, and Pottery Hill, three sites in the Silver Creek drainage of east-central Arizona, show increased hunting of large mammals during this transition. This trend has el…
The Bom Santo Cave (Lisbon, Portugal): Catchment, Diet, and Patterns of Mobility of a Middle Neolithic Population
The study of the Bom Santo Cave (central Portugal), a Neolithic cemetery, indicates a complex social, palaeoeconomic, and population scenario. With isotope, aDNA, and provenance analyses of raw materials coupled with stylistic variability of material culture items and palaeogeographical data, light is shed on the territory and social organization of a population dated to 3800–3400 cal BC, i.e. the Middle Neolithic. Results indicate an itinerant f…
The Mesolithic/Neolithic transition on the Costa Vicentina, Portugal
Social Change and Hunting during the Pueblo III to Pueblo IV Transition, East-Central Arizona
The transition from the Pueblo III to the Pueblo IV period (A.D. 1100–1400) in the American Southwest involved marked population aggregation. Diverse economic, political, and religious factors must have played a role in the integration of these populations. Bailey Ruin, Bryant Ranch, and Pottery Hill, three sites in the Silver Creek drainage of east-central Arizona, show increased hunting of large mammals during this transition. This trend has el…
The Lagomorph Index: Rethinking Rabbit Ratios in Hohokam Sites
The Lagomorph Index, a calculation of the relative proportions of cottontail rabbits and jackrabbits, is one of the most widely used analytical tools in Hohokam zooarchaeology. It is only a useful tool, however, if it has a clearly understood relationship to phenomena of archaeological interest. This is not the case, since a variety of social, economic, and environmental factors can affect values of the Lagomorph Index. Using a large database of …
Site-Use Intensity, Cultural Modification of the Environment, and the Development of Agricultural Communities in Southern Arizona
Some non-prey animals, including certain rodent and bird species, are particularly good indicators of local environments, and are argued to provide an alternative way to look at the emergence of sedentism before, during, and after the transition to agriculture. With the first villages and irrigated fields, human impacts on the environment opened new ecological niches and affected the composition of local pest populations. Some of these animals wo…
"Hunting intensification and the Hohokam "collapse
Old Bones: The Effects of Curation and Exchange on the Interpretation of Artiodactyl Remains in Hohokam Sites
Dietary choices are one subset of the factors that affect the proportion of artiodactyls in Southwestern faunal assemblages. This study of 23 Hohokam faunal assemblages suggests that, in fact, artiodactyls were highly valued as a source of bone tool material, hides, and ritual paraphernalia. The importance placed on artiodactyls as a source for raw material could lead to their over-representation relative to smaller taxa, due to the curation of t…
Jackrabbit Age Profiles as an Indicator of Hunting Behavior: An Example from Southern Arizona
Zooarchaeological data can provide invaluable information about prehistoric social, labor, and economic organization. Ungulate age profiles have long been used to answer anthropological questions about the timing and methods of hunting, but in the western U.S., ungulates may be rare, and archaeological assemblages are frequently dominated by rabbits. Rabbit age profiles have been largely overlooked as a source of information about prehistoric soc…
Delicacy or Desperation? Eating Peduncular Barnacles in Neolithic Portugal
Barnacles are a delicacy in some parts of the world, but are seldom recognized as a potential food source by English-speaking archaeologists. Pollicipes pollicipes, a species of peduncular barnacle, is widely eaten along the Atlantic coast of Europe today, and is also common in some archaeological sites in the region. Recognizing and properly recording this barnacle can deepen our understanding of prehistoric coastal adaptations in Europe and oth…
Social Change and Hunting during the Pueblo III to Pueblo IV Transition, East-Central Arizona
The transition from the Pueblo III to the Pueblo IV period (A.D. 1100–1400) in the American Southwest involved marked population aggregation. Diverse economic, political, and religious factors must have played a role in the integration of these populations. Bailey Ruin, Bryant Ranch, and Pottery Hill, three sites in the Silver Creek drainage of east-central Arizona, show increased hunting of large mammals during this transition. This trend has el…
The Early Neolithic Site of Ayn Abū Nukhayla, Southern Jordan
Three seasons of research at the Middle PPNB site of Ayn Abū Nukhayla indicate that it experienced intermittent, seasonal occupations spanning a period of ca. 200 years, centered on 8500 b. p. Despite being located in a hyperarid setting in southern Jordan, the site displays extensive architecture and other evidence of intensive occupation. Settlement of the site appears to have been triggered by a moist pulse that produced sufficient upland run-…
Old Bones: The Effects of Curation and Exchange on the Interpretation of Artiodactyl Remains in Hohokam Sites
Dietary choices are one subset of the factors that affect the proportion of artiodactyls in Southwestern faunal assemblages. This study of 23 Hohokam faunal assemblages suggests that, in fact, artiodactyls were highly valued as a source of bone tool material, hides, and ritual paraphernalia. The importance placed on artiodactyls as a source for raw material could lead to their over-representation relative to smaller taxa, due to the curation of t…
Site-Use Intensity, Cultural Modification of the Environment, and the Development of Agricultural Communities in Southern Arizona
Some non-prey animals, including certain rodent and bird species, are particularly good indicators of local environments, and are argued to provide an alternative way to look at the emergence of sedentism before, during, and after the transition to agriculture. With the first villages and irrigated fields, human impacts on the environment opened new ecological niches and affected the composition of local pest populations. Some of these animals wo…
The Lagomorph Index: Rethinking Rabbit Ratios in Hohokam Sites
The Lagomorph Index, a calculation of the relative proportions of cottontail rabbits and jackrabbits, is one of the most widely used analytical tools in Hohokam zooarchaeology. It is only a useful tool, however, if it has a clearly understood relationship to phenomena of archaeological interest. This is not the case, since a variety of social, economic, and environmental factors can affect values of the Lagomorph Index. Using a large database of …
"Hunting intensification and the Hohokam "collapse
Delicacy or Desperation? Eating Peduncular Barnacles in Neolithic Portugal
Barnacles are a delicacy in some parts of the world, but are seldom recognized as a potential food source by English-speaking archaeologists. Pollicipes pollicipes, a species of peduncular barnacle, is widely eaten along the Atlantic coast of Europe today, and is also common in some archaeological sites in the region. Recognizing and properly recording this barnacle can deepen our understanding of prehistoric coastal adaptations in Europe and oth…
The Mesolithic/Neolithic transition on the Costa Vicentina, Portugal
Food and Gender in Fiji: Ethnoarchaeological Explorations by Sharyn Jones
Food and Gender in Fiji: Ethnoarchaeological Explorations by Sharyn Jones." Ethnoarchaeology, 3(1), pp. 105–106
The Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in southern Iberia
New data and a review of historiographic information from Neolithic sites of the Malaga and Algarve coasts (southern Iberian Peninsula) and from the Maghreb (North Africa) reveal the existence of a Neolithic settlement at least from 7.5 cal ka BP. The agricultural and pastoralist food producing economy of that population rapidly replaced the coastal economies of the Mesolithic populations. The timing of this population and economic turnover coinc…
Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader
"Gathers existing research along with new scholarship on the intersection of gender and sexuality and information use"--Provided by publisher
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The Bom Santo Cave (Lisbon, Portugal): Catchment, Diet, and Patterns of Mobility of a Middle Neolithic Population
The study of the Bom Santo Cave (central Portugal), a Neolithic cemetery, indicates a complex social, palaeoeconomic, and population scenario. With isotope, aDNA, and provenance analyses of raw materials coupled with stylistic variability of material culture items and palaeogeographical data, light is shed on the territory and social organization of a population dated to 3800–3400 cal BC, i.e. the Middle Neolithic. Results indicate an itinerant f…
Apsa Active and Award Committees
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Jackrabbit Age Profiles as an Indicator of Hunting Behavior: An Example from Southern Arizona
Zooarchaeological data can provide invaluable information about prehistoric social, labor, and economic organization. Ungulate age profiles have long been used to answer anthropological questions about the timing and methods of hunting, but in the western U.S., ungulates may be rare, and archaeological assemblages are frequently dominated by rabbits. Rabbit age profiles have been largely overlooked as a source of information about prehistoric soc…
Using Euclidean distance in the comparative analysis of taxonomic abundance
Anthropogenic Environments, Archaeology of
Geography (14 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Biology (9 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Population (4 works)