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Diane Gifford-Gonzalez

Anthropology

#1869

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#2423

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Ethnography

#27

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#55

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Archeology

#450

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#637

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Diane Gifford-Gonzalez's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Diane Gifford-Gonzalez is an American archaeologist who specializes in the field of zooarchaeology. Her research has included fieldwork near Lake Turkana, northwestern Kenya, and her research often touches on the question of animal domestication and the origins and development of African pastoralism.

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Diane Gifford-Gonzalez's Published Works

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Bones are not enough: Analogues, knowledge, and interpretive strategies in zooarchaeology (1991) (257)
The Third Dimension in Site Structure: An Experiment in Trampling and Vertical Dispersal (1985) (230)
Domesticating Animals in Africa: Implications of Genetic and Archaeological Findings (2011) (209)
Animal Disease Challenges to the Emergence of Pastoralism in Sub-Saharan Africa (2000) (171)
Zooarchaeology (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology) (1999) (135)
Early Pastoralists in East Africa: Ecological and Social Dimensions (1998) (107)
The shifting baseline of northern fur seal ecology in the northeast Pacific Ocean (2007) (98)
Genetics and African Cattle Domestication (2013) (82)
You Can Hide, But You Can't Run: Representations of Women's Work in Illustrations of Palaeolithic Life (1993) (66)
An Introduction to Zooarchaeology (2018) (64)
An Ethnoarchaeological Contribution to Identifying Hominid Fish Processing Sites (1994) (59)
Late Quaternary extinct ungulates of East Africa and palaeoenvironmental implications (1991) (46)
Human Activities and Site Formation at Modern Lake Margin Foraging Camps in Kenya (1999) (42)
“Animal disease challenges” fifteen years later: The hypothesis in light of new data (2017) (35)
Pastoral Neolithic sites on the southern Mbulu Plateau, Tanzania (2013) (35)
Holocene changes in the ecology of northern fur seals: insights from stable isotopes and archaeofauna (2001) (35)
Smaller fragment size facilitates energy-efficient bone grease production (2014) (32)
Anthropogenic Burning on the Central California Coast in Late Holocene and Early Historical Times: Findings, Implications, and Future Directions (2013) (31)
The Fauna from Ele Bor: Evidence for the Persistence of Foragers into the Later Holocene of Arid North Kenya (2003) (30)
Domesticating Animals in Africa (2013) (27)
Faunal Assemblages from Masai Gorge Rockshelter and Marula Rockshelter (1985) (24)
Constructing Community Through Refuse Disposal (2014) (21)
Shipman's Shaky Foundations (1989) (19)
Isotopic tracking of prehistoric pinniped foraging and distribution along the central California coast: preliminary results (2002) (15)
The Ethnoarchaeology of Reptile Remains at a Lake Turkana Occupation Site, Kenya (1996) (15)
Animal Genetics and African Archaeology: Why It Matters (2013) (12)
Coyote (Canis latrans) use of marine resources in coastal California: A new behavior relative to their recent ancestors (2018) (11)
If Mussels Weighed a Ton:: Problems with Quantifying Santa Barbara Channel Archaeofaunas (2012) (10)
THOUGHTS ON A METHOD FOR ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF QUOTIDIAN LIFE (2007) (10)
The Fauna from Quiroste: Insights into Indigenous Foodways, Culture, and Land Modification (2013) (9)
Holocene Monterey Bay Fur SealsDistribution, Dates, and Ecological Implications (2011) (8)
Reductions in the dietary niche of southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) from the Holocene to the Anthropocene (2020) (7)
Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric Southwest. Christy G. Turner , Jacqueline A. Turner (1999) (6)
On beasts in breasts. Another reading of women, wildness and danger at Çatalhöyük (2007) (6)
Owls, caves and fossils. By Peter Andrews. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1990. viii + 231 pp. $39.95 (cloth) (1991) (6)
Characteristics of modern foraging camps and their faunas from Lake Turkana, Kenya : Postpalaeolithic Europe II, Asia, Africa (1997) (5)
Just Methodology? A Review of Archaeology’s Debts to Michael Schiffer (2011) (5)
Pastoralism in sub-Saharan Africa (2017) (4)
A Guide to Post‐Cranial Bones of East African Animals: Mrs. Walker's Bone Book. Rikki Walker (1987) (4)
Women in Zooarcheology (2008) (4)
The Aterian seen from Adrar Bous, Niger: southern affinities and further questions (2004) (3)
Examining and Refining the Quadratic Crown Height Method of Age Estimation (2019) (3)
Zooarchaeology in Africa : the first two million years (1999) (3)
Zooarchaeology and Ecology: Mortality Profiles, Species Abundance, Diversity (2018) (2)
Archeology: Animal Husbandry and Hunting in Tác-Gorsium: The Vertebrate Fauna of a Roman Town in Pannonia. S. Bökönyi. (1986) (1)
Human, Animal, Geological Causes of Bone Breakage (2018) (1)
Review of the Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New World Nomadism (2010) (1)
Calibrating Bone Durability (2018) (1)
SAA Archaeological Record (2016) (1)
Culinary Processing and Preservational Effects on Bone (2018) (1)
Bone’s Intrinsic Traits: Inferring Species, Sex, and Age (2018) (1)
The CA-SCR-9 Archaeofauna: Insights into Prey Choice, Seasonality, and Processing (2016) (1)
Constructing Community Through Refuse Disposal (2014) (0)
Genetics and African Cattle Domestication (2013) (0)
Analyzing Multi-Agent Assemblages (2018) (0)
The Real Flintstones? What are Artists' Depictions of Human Ancestors Telling Us? (2014) (0)
John Bower, 1935–2017 (2018) (0)
Reasoning with Zooarchaeological Counting Units and Statistics (2018) (0)
The Use of Ancient DNA to Investigate Change in Vole Populations during the Past 7,000 years: Implications for Past Land Management Practices (2019) (0)
Behavioral Ecology and Zooarchaeology (2018) (0)
Zooarchaeology’s Basic Counting Units (2018) (0)
Social Relations Through Zooarchaeology (2018) (0)
New Ecological Directions: Isotopes, Genetics, Historical Ecology, Conservation (2018) (0)
The Archaeology of Animal Bones (2002) (0)
Geometric morphometrics of California and bay mussels: an analysis using 3D geometric morphometric techniques (2015) (0)
Primary Human Effects: Cutting Edge and Percussion Effects on Bone (2018) (0)
Mammalian and Reptilian Carnivore Effects on Bone (2018) (0)
Tanner, Nancy (2018) (0)
The Emergence of Zooarchaeology (2018) (0)
NMML Acquisitions : September 2001 (0)
Bone’s Intrinsic Traits: Age Estimation from Mammalian Dentition (2018) (0)
The Role of Faunal Evidence in Pyrodiversity Studies: Cases from California (2019) (0)
Invertebrate, Plant, and Geological Effects on Bone (2018) (0)
A Perspective on Zooarchaeology (2018) (0)
Skeletal Disarticulation, Dispersal, Dismemberment, Selective Transport (2018) (0)
Bone and Vertebrate Bodies as Uniformitarian Materials (2018) (0)
Doing Zooarchaeology Today and Tomorrow (2018) (0)
Zooarcheological Contributions to the Smithsonian’s National Taphonomic Reference Collection (2018) (0)
Hunt for nutrition (1984) (0)
Calibrating Nutritionally Driven Selective Transport (2018) (0)
Beyond Chiefdoms: Pathways to Complexity in Africa. Susan Keech Mcintosh, editor. 1999. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. x + 176 pp. $64.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-63074-6. (2001) (0)
SAA’s Efforts to Create a More Inclusive Climate: Educating to Prevent Sexually Motivated and Other Forms of Harassment and Violence (2018) (0)
SAA the archaeological record Drones in Archaeology (2016) (0)
Field Recovery, Lab Methods, Data Records, Curation (2018) (0)
Avian Carnivore, Ungulate, and Effects on Bone (2018) (0)
Identification: Sorting Decisions and Analytic Consequences (2018) (0)
Animal Genetics and African Archaeology: Why It Matters (2013) (0)
Bone’s Intrinsic Traits: Why Animals Eat Animals (2018) (0)
We Are Not Amused (1992) (0)

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