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Jonathan Dombrosky – “Zooarchaeology of the Northern Chaco Outliers Project: A Multi-Year Research Program”

February 16 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm MST

Specimens recovered together at the Haynie site. A) a bison (Bison bison) first phalanx, B) a long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata) mandible, and C) a porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) mandible

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Crow Canyon Archaeological Center initiated the Northern Chaco Outliers Project in 2016. This project focuses on the Lakeview Community, a collection of four neighboring Chaco-period Great Houses in southwestern Colorado. Ongoing fieldwork at the Haynie site (5MT1905), containing two of the Great Houses in the Lakeview Community, is a substantial portion of the project. Zooarchaeology is the dynamic study of past human-animal interactions through the analysis of non-human animal remains, and it is a critical area of study within the larger Northern Chaco Outliers Project. Here, Jonathan reviews the latest findings from four years of archaeofaunal analysis at the Haynie site. He will discuss identification methods, notable specimens (including bison and wolf remains), evidence for a possible turkey pen, and a targeted radiocarbon dating program evaluating the intrusiveness of porcupines.

Jonathan Dombrosky is an Environmental Archaeologist at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. He received both his Bachelor’s and Master’s at the University of North Texas and his PhD from the University of New Mexico. He uses big data to answer broad questions about subsistence practices and zooarchaeology in the central Mesa Verde region. Some of his major projects have focused on Ancestral Pueblo fishing strategies in the Middle Rio Grande region of New Mexico during the late pre-Hispanic period. He has wide-ranging interests in human behavioral ecology, stable isotope ecology, 3D geometric morphometrics, radiocarbon chronology building, and conservation biology. His research is published in international journals including the Journal of Archaeological Science, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, The Holocene, and Hydrobiologia.

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  • Date: February 16
  • Time:
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm MST
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Organizer

  • Sebastian Chamorro
  • Email schamorro@chronicleheritage.com