Decaying Bones, the Flesh of Memory: Zooarchaeology at the Williams Spring Village
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- This is the third installment of my summary of the Williams Spring site in northern Alabama near the Tennessee River. Here I talk about what we learned from the animal remains found at the site. This is being uploaded as part of #RealArchaeology weekend. Go check out real-archaeology.com. but if you don't want to jump into the middle of the story, check out parts 1 and 2 linked below
Williams Spring 1: Lithics - • Archaeological Pottery...
Williams Spring 2: Ceramics - • Back In The Village: T...
I referenced several of my previous videos in this monstrously long video most of which are in this Zooarchaeology playlist: • Zooarchaeology
Great episode! Can't wait for the next episode.
Just subbed. Stoked to watch
I think you'll like the frogs vid a lot more than this'n.
Interesting and educational. Thank you
It’s so great to watch you let loose with a full on science video… using the big words.. lol… love it
What big words did I use? I usually try not to do that but sometimes I forget.
@@NathanaelFosaaen all of them… hahahahaa… not a criticism… I love hearing you in your natural habitat, if you will… but sometimes when we know a lot about something in a particular way, we don’t know we’re using non-everyday words… I think “taxon/taxa” for species categories… I’d have to listen again for more specifics… but it’s not a criticism… I understood what you were saying and I’m not edumacated… but I am a nerd and love learning about everything…
Hey Nathanael, I have enjoyed your channel for a long time. As a child of the Tennessee River Valley in North Alabama , I am very familiar with our general understanding of the peoples of the pre-contact Southeast. I enjoyed your explanation of your work in my homeland. I currently live in North Georgia. Your rant episodes , I especially enjoy. Passionate truth is always a logical breath mint. So much of the popular belief about native people and their material culture, social structures, ect. are biased by a modern romantic cultural view. I would enjoy an episode on common myths and the truth revealed from archaeological evidence. Some food for thought... the prevalence of American Bison as a food source in the Eastern US, or not? The Use of quartz crystals as a status item, or religious items in the archaeological record versus contemporary pan-indian beliefs. Thank you for your work. I enjoy the channel.
Great stuff, brother. I appreciate your first hand knowledge, and desire to learn everything you can from your site.
A couple of things that came to my mind; and I’m sure these are issues that you’ve maybe considered, but like when it comes to the dog that was purposely buried it may have been an elder. A dog that produced many litters. Whether it was male or female I don’t know. And maybe you guys can’t discern. But that was the one thing that came to my mind about the buried dog. That it was revered for its age, and possibly what it’s life meant to those who kept it.
The other was; what appeared to be, a lack of substance for the summer months. I know that it’s very hard to navigate through woodland territory during the summer due to the growth of all of the vegetation and underbrush. I wonder if they migrated to a location that was easier to navigate for resources during that period of time? Maybe not? Just a thought. Looking forward to your next video brother.
Great video
Whoa!!! Love the new look Nathaniel.....
Lol! I've worn my hat in plenty of other videos.
So great to see more zooarchaeology content! I appreciate that you helped orient folx on zooarchaeology methods and theories. Great work!
Thanks Dr. Nathan! I really enjoyed your apples video. We don't get enough paleoethnobotany on here.
@@NathanaelFosaaen Thanks so much! Looking forward to seeing more of our respective subdiscipline work on UA-cam :)
Hello fellow piper! 👍👍
Another great, informative presentation. Thank you!
CHEERS my friend! And BRAVO for a most excellent and educational video. Thank you.
Thank you much!
Super cool!
Thanks Flint! Great fun talking to you today.
Excellent video, thank you! These sorts of vids are invaluable for the layman to learn a little about these subjects.
The work you do and share has helped answer questions I’ve spent my whole life wanting to know. Great appreciation from East TN.
Thank you for a most informative lecture. I majored in archaeology (BA) in California. My area of interest was the peoples of Southern California. The eastern woodlands are also fascinating.
Interesting and informative content!
Excellent, as always!
I wanted to say thank you for your work! I always loved paleontology and archeology. I wish we checked more for paleo or archeological info before they build things, Like with Gray Fossil site here in East TN.
San Antonio and Austin are built on previous native American occupations. I'm sure thats true for lots of other cities too.
Nice look with the hat and the pipe. I thought it was someone else in the thumbnail haha
All the strange birds coming out of the woodwork for your videos now
any cut antler tines found there ?
Have you ever worked with David Ian Howe on a site?
We've never met.
@@NathanaelFosaaenoh hello!
@@davidianhowe Ahoy!
pipe tobacco recommendations / meditations?
W. Ø Larsen has good blends. I favor the Signature. Cornell and Diehl is also a good Carolina-based company. If you can get your hands on Watauga Puff from Boone NC, do so.
@@NathanaelFosaaen 🙏
Good stuff! Also, you look like historian Shelby Foote sitting there with your pipe
does the hole in the antler section go all the way through ?
Yeah that's an atlatl handle.
All these new channels. What a way to kill a weekend!
Happy to be of service.
Quarter out the meat and haul that back to the camp (in essence).
A+ !:-)
I just found out that a couple of things I learned as a child in school are not even true at all! We were taught that the Europeans introduced tomahawks to the Native Americans. We were also taught that Europeans introduced scalping and trophy hunting to the Native Americans. These both aren't true at all, because the tomahawk was invented by the Algonquin tribe long before the first Europeans arrived. And Native Americans on occasion did scalp and trophy hunt before the first Europeans arrived. I'm not really interested in North American Archaeology. I am interested in the Archaeology of Norway, Iceland, Antarctica, Egypt, India, and France. I just came across this information while i was searching for something else. I wonder what else I'm going to find that I learned in school is not true......
Excellent informative video (but lose the pipe....bit cliche 😏)
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