{"title":"Human-Dog Relationships at Jamestown Colony, Virginia, from Zooarchaeological Analyses","authors":"Matthew E. Hill Jr., Ariane E. Thomas","doi":"10.1007/s10761-024-00747-5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Documentary evidence indicates dogs at Jamestown were famine food during the terrible winter of 1609–10 CE. This analysis highlights what these remains can tell us about the interactions between Native Virginians and European colonists, as well as early life in the fort for both colonists and dogs. This paper (1) documents the composition and taphonomic history of the dog remains, (2) determines animal body size and age, and (3) highlights the nature of human butchery. Our results indicate most Jamestown dogs have Indigenous ancestry, were primarily medium sized and younger in age, and served as a food source during the fort’s initial settlement.</p>","PeriodicalId":46236,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Historical Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Historical Archaeology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-024-00747-5","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHAEOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Documentary evidence indicates dogs at Jamestown were famine food during the terrible winter of 1609–10 CE. This analysis highlights what these remains can tell us about the interactions between Native Virginians and European colonists, as well as early life in the fort for both colonists and dogs. This paper (1) documents the composition and taphonomic history of the dog remains, (2) determines animal body size and age, and (3) highlights the nature of human butchery. Our results indicate most Jamestown dogs have Indigenous ancestry, were primarily medium sized and younger in age, and served as a food source during the fort’s initial settlement.
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International Journal of Historical Archaeology is the first authoritative resource for scholarly research on this rapidly growing field. Articles - contributed by an international body of experts - contain current theoretical, methodological, and site-specific research. Exploring a wide-range of topics, articles focus on the post-1492 period and includes studies reaching into the Late Medieval period. In addition, the journal makes global connections between sites, regions, and continents.
International Journal of Historical Archaeology will fulfill the needs of archaeologists, students, historians, and historical preservationists as well as practionioners of other closely related disciplines.
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