On the wing: Morphological variation in the osteology of Anatidae (excluding Anserinae) of the Levant

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• Dr Ashleigh Haruda, University of Oxford
• Friday 01 December 2023, 13:15-14:00
• McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Seminar Room.

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Haruda, A., Mazzucato, C., Yeomans, L.

Accurate identification of waterfowl in archaeological assemblages of the Levant has potential to unlock new methods of environmental reconstruction. Different species have differing habitat preference and migration patterns altered by environmental shifts to a greater or lesser degree. Additionally, understanding the changing seasonal abundance of avian resources exploited by people in the past is key to addressing how people responded to climatic and environmental realignments. However, identification of osteological remains of ducks is notoriously challenging, even to tribal level. We present here new geometric morphometric (GMM) protocols on wing elements from over twenty Palaeoartic species that migrate across Europe, the Levant and Africa to improve identification of waterfowl. This is an ideal starting point to expand utilisation of GMM in avifaunal research and test applicability to a notoriously difficult taxonomic group.

This talk is part of the Pitt Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series series.

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