Reyna Delikat, “Five Bones: Zooarchaeology in the U.P.”
Mentor: Jean Hudson, Anthropology, Letters & Science (College of)
Poster #7
Reyna Delikat Abductive reasoning From Five Bones Richter is a site on Washington Island off of the U.P. This is a map of the Middle Woodland Habitation. Five Tarsometatarsi were found in the same unit with no accompanying elements save pedal phalanges. It was unclear if they were wild and so belonged to the original prehistoric site, or if they were historic domestic chickens. These bones can prove the way in which a small sample can reveal a plethora of information about a site. The pedantic research methods in Zooarchaeology open a new window into the past that looks not just at the things people made but also the things they killed.