User talk:Lawrencekp/Zooarchaeology

Katherine, you're definitely on the right track. I think that the additions that you want to make are going to be great, because they're exactly what the article needs. I think that there is a good amount of sources, but an easy way to find more sources is to look at the sources used by the sources listed at the bottom of your article. Patton.gillian (talk) 15:56, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Katherine, I think you've done well to highlight some important changes and additions to the article. I think that that introduction is a bit all over the place, and can stand to be rewritten substantially. I also think that the bit about preservation should be moved to the faunal remains section, and there I do think that you need to make sure you lay out the details (what are the common faunal remains found, what animals leave the different kinds behind, how do they preserve (or not), how are they recovered, etc.) before you move into a conversation about some of the kinds of thins that faunal material can tell you. And I don't think that you want to reproduce the discussion of uses there either. I would maybe add in the possibility of using faunal remains to identify social differences such as class or ethnicity into that list though! I also agree with your inclination to include notable zooarchaeologists in the development section, but rather than just having that be a list you might highlight a few and mention their notable work. That is, did they introduce a new analysis technique, or apply zooarchaeology to a new or interesting kind of anthropological question? Finally, while I appreciate the paleolithic discussion in principle, I don't think it really fits in with the "faunal remains" section, and might be better if you tie it to some specific sites or projects and include it as an example in that section (and I agree that the examples could use expanding, but its worth noting that there is so much zooarchaeology done these days that you'll never be comprehensive, so just highlight a few examples that you find particularly interesting, and perhaps ones that highlight work from underrepresented parts of the world. MP  Bwana Msitu (talk) 04:12, 14 October 2020 (UTC)