New high resolution technique for investigating human-wild boar interactions
Petra Vaiglova, Washington University in St. Louis
In her project, Petra Vaiglova is developing a new method for integrating dental histological features (i.e., incremental features that enable us to trace the developmental geometry of dental enamel) with fine scaled stable oxygen isotope sequences measured on a Sensitive High-Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP) to reconstruct the life histories of animals from archaeological assemblages. The method will enable us to extract seasonal climatic and mobility patterns from animal teeth at an approximately weekly resolution. The method will be applicable for answering questions of past climatic fluctuations, human-animal interactions, and change of animal feeding patterns through time. Petra is apply this technique to probing the dynamic between humans and animals in early Neolithic Southwestern Asia.
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