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- Title
Faunal Analysis of the Middle Woodland Rice Lake Serpent Mounds (BbGm-2) Midden Assemblage, Ontario.
- Authors
Dudgeon, Thomas W.; Rafuse, Daniel J.; Burness, Gary; Conolly, James
- Abstract
This paper presents an analysis of the faunal material obtained from the 1950s Royal Ontario Museum excavation of the shell midden at the Middle Woodland Serpent Mounds on Rice Lake, Ontario (BbGm-2). The zooarchaeological and taphonomic data presented here provide significant information for understanding subsistence activities at the site, as well as site formation processes. The Serpent Mounds contains evidence of anthropogenic faunal processing in a variety of vertebrates, including white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), moose (Alces alces), beaver (Castor canadensis), snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina), and painted turtle (Chrysemys picta), as well as unidentified turtle (Testudines), unidentified frogs and toads (Anura), and unidentified birds (Aves). There are also numerous fish remains, particularly channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), which is the most abundant fish species by MN1. The processing activities, combined with several types of natural modifications, specifically root marks, thermal alteration, weathering, and chemical corrosion, resulted in a highly fragmented assemblage. The faunal record from the Serpent Mounds site provides additional details on the local expression of the hunting-gathering-fishing subsistence strategy that is consistent with known Middle Woodland economies in southern Ontario.
- Subjects
ZOOARCHAEOLOGY; TAPHONOMY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; ZOOLOGICAL surveys; MOUNDS (Archaeology)
- Publication
Ontario Archaeology, 2018, Issue 98, p84
- ISSN
0078-4672
- Publication type
Article