Cows in the Galápagos Islands: a study of cattle production at the Hacienda El Progreso

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dc.contributor.authorRiou-Green, Miranda
dc.contributor.supervisorStahl, Peter W.
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-30T16:46:33Z
dc.date.available2018-04-30T16:46:33Z
dc.date.copyright2018en_US
dc.date.issued2018-04-30
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Anthropology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the zooarchaeology of cattle management and production at the 19th-century Hacienda El Progreso, on San Cristóbal Island, Galápagos, Ecuador. Many cattle products were exported, including salted meat, leather, and fat. In order to examine cattle commodification, comparative literature was reviewed, and the sequential steps that were undertaken to turn cattle into a product were assessed. The results were then compared to the faunal analysis of the Carpintero assemblage from Hacienda El Progreso using the chaîne opératoire framework in order to examine the possibility of interpreting the sequential production of cattle commodification from zooarchaeological specimens. Historical cattle from Hacienda El Progreso were a likely small bodied Criollo variety. While there was evidence of cattle management and production, there was limited opportunity to identify the hacienda’s operational sequence of cattle production for export as the Carpintero assemblage likely represented locally consumed animals.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/9293
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectZooarchaeologyen_US
dc.subjectGalápagos Islandsen_US
dc.subjectCattle Managementen_US
dc.subjectCattle Productionen_US
dc.subjectChaîne Opératoireen_US
dc.subjectHistorical Archaeologyen_US
dc.titleCows in the Galápagos Islands: a study of cattle production at the Hacienda El Progresoen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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