ryan byerly
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My research interests focus on the zooarchaeological reconstruction of human subsistence economies on a global scale. I have conducted fieldwork in Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota, Texas, and New Mexico, and have assisted in the analyses of North American and European faunal assemblages. Recently, with colleague Charles P. Egeland at the University of Indiana, I have been engaged in conducting experimental research in large mammal carcass butchery. This work is aimed at exploring the multiple variables of the butchery process, in order to expand our understanding of early human subsistence behavior. |
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Recent presentations and publications:
Byerly, R.M., L.B. Niven, and C.P. Egeland (2002) Equid Carcass Utilization at Vogelherd Cave: Cutmark Frequency as an Implement of Inference. Poster presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado.
Niven, L.B. and R.M. Byerly (2002) The Role of Equids in Palaeolithic Subsistence at Vogelherd Cave, Germany. Paper presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado.
Egeland, C.P., M.G. Hill, and R.M. Byerly (2002) Experimental Versus Archaeological Manifestations of Large Mammal Butchery: Increasing the Reliability of Inferences of Prehistoric Subsistence Behavior. Poster presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado.
Egeland, C.P. and R.M. Byerly (2001) From Cutmarks to Behavior: The Reliability of Cutmarks for Inferring Processing Intensity. AGORA September 2001.
Byerly, R.M. (2001) Modeling the Butcher: A Configurational Approach to Cutmark Frequency and Carcass Processing Using New and Old World Archaeofaunal Samples. Paper presented at the 59th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Todd, L.C., M.G. Hill, S.L. Potter, R. Thomas, and R.M. Byerly (2001) Fresh, Filleted, or Frozen? Marrow Extraction and Long Bone Fracture Morphology. Paper presented at the 59th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Byerly, R.M. and C.P. Egeland (2000) Experimental Butchery: Towards a Better Understanding of the Placement and Frequency of Cutmarks in Archaeofaunal Assemblages. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Byerly, R.M. (2000) Glenrock Craniometrics: An Analysis of Cranial Variation Representative of a Late Prehistoric Bison Jump Site. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Byerly, R.M. (1999) Kaplan-Hoover Craniometrics: Cranial Measurements of a Late Archaic Bison Kill Site. Poster presented at the 57th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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