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Year Three of Archaeofaunal Analyses at the Haynie Site (5MT1905)

report
zooarchaeology
taphonomy
isoscapes
artiodactyl body size
The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center launched the Northern Chaco Outliers Project (NCOP) in 2016 (Ryan 2016) to investigate the Lakeview Community, a cluster of four Chaco…
Feb 27, 2025
Jonathan Dombrosky, Chelsea Betts, Steve Wolverton, Susan C. Ryan

A Differential Recovery Checklist for Zooarchaeology in the U.S. Southwest

An Extended Discussion from the 2024 Society for American Archaeology (SAA) conference in New Orleans
SAAs
poster
recovery
zooarchaeology
modeling
Differential recovery refers to the ways faunal assemblages are sampled from the archaeological record. Its effects can be pernicious when interpreting data from multiple…
Apr 19, 2024
Lisa Nagaoka, Jonathan Dombrosky, Steve Wolverton, Emily Lena Jones, Susan C. Ryan

Year Two of Archaeofaunal Analysis at the Haynie Site (5MT1905)

report
zooarchaeology
taphonomy
machine learning
The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center initiated the Northern Chaco Outliers Project (NCOP) in 2016 (Ryan 2016), and fieldwork began in earnest in 2017 (Simon et al. 2017).…
Feb 8, 2024
Jonathan Dombrosky, Ahna Feldstein

Reconsidering Archaeological Garden Hunting: A View from the Northern U.S. Southwest

code
stable isotopes
subsistence strategies
agroecology
niche modeling
The following is the supplemental material from this Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports article.
Oct 25, 2023
Jonathan Dombrosky, Caitlin S. Ainsworth, Abigail A. Judkins, Jana Valesca Meyer, Michael A. Adler, Emily Lena Jones

Year One of Archaeofaunal Analysis at the Haynie Site (5MT1905)

report
zooarchaeology
machine learning
taphonomy
The Haynie site (5MT1905) is a multicomponent ancestral Pueblo archaeological site, located in southwestern Colorado, occupied between roughly A.D. 800 and 1200 (Throgmorton…
Apr 26, 2023
Jonathan Dombrosky, Eric Gilmore

Body Size from Unconventional Specimens: A 3D Geometric Morphometrics Approach to Fishes from Ancestral Pueblo Contexts

code
morphometry
allometry
biometrics
3D GMM
The following is the exact supplemental Rmarkdown file from this Journal of Archaeological Science article. It contains a bunch of extra analyses, like a consideration of…
Feb 12, 2023
Jonathan Dombrosky

Resource Risk and Stability in the Zooarchaeological Record: The Case of Pueblo Fishing in the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico

code
data visualization
plot customization
ggplot2
stable isotopes
I never published the code associated with this Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences article, but you can find the raw data here. At the time, my R data visualization…
Feb 12, 2023
Jonathan Dombrosky

A ~1000-year 13C Suess Correction Model for the Study of Past Ecosystems (Redux)

code
modeling
stable isotopes
carbon emissions
My first published work using the R programming language was in The Holocene. In retrospect, there are some things I would change. So, let’s take the opportunity to look at…
Feb 11, 2023
Jonathan Dombrosky
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