Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-018: Activities of the Faunal Consultant

The Dolores Archaeological Program faunal analysis program was initiated in 1978 under the direction of S. Emslie. Immediate priorities were the direction and supervision of field operations with regard to the recovery of faunal remains, development of articulation points between the projected analysis and the project Research Design, and the operationalization of a preliminary analysis to be undertaken in 1978-1979. The preliminary analysis is currently underway and is expected to be completed by May 1979. Faunal analysis is viewed as having the potential to contribute significant information to the corpus of data needed to answer questions posed in the project's Research Design. Specifically, faunal studies are seen as having direct bearing on all five major problem domains.