Elizabeth Reitz

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Elizabeth Jean "Betsy" Reitz is a zooarchaeologist and Professor Emerita in the Georgia Museum of Natural History and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgia.[1] She was born in 1946 in Lake Alfred, Florida. She attended Florida Presbyterian College (now Eckerd College) from 1966-1967. She received her BA (1969), MA (1975), and her PhD (1979) in Anthropology from the University of Florida. Her dissertation was directed by Elizabeth Wing. In 2012, she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[2] and in 2014, she was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3][4] She was the recipient of the 2016 Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Research in Archaeology, given by the Society for American Archaeology.[5] The Fryxell Award is given to scholars who have made significant contributions in the application of the zoological sciences in archaeology.[6] She is a member of the Committee of Honor of the (ICAZ).[7] In 2019, Reitz was awarded the 's Lifetime Achievement Award.[8]

"Reitz has worked throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, and the southeastern United States, studying vertebrate remains from coastal archaeological sites dating from the late Pleistocene era into the 20th century."[1] Her work includes collaborations with local residents of areas in which she is working as well as overseeing a large (over 4200 specimen) zooarchaeological collection in the Georgia Museum of Natural History.[1]

A reviewer for the Canadian Journal of Archaeology praised Reitz and Wing's book, Zooarchaeology as "the best available introductory text on the subject for undergraduate students".[9]

She has been credited for having "done more than any other individual to advance the subfield of historical zooarchaeology".[10]

Lyman notes that she is a "vocal advocate for using bone weight allometry as a measure of taxonomic abundance".[11]

Elizabeth Reitz holding Fryxell Award

Selected publications[]

  • Reitz, Elizabeth J. (1993). "Zooarchaeology". In Jay K. Johnson (ed.). The Development of Southeastern Archaeology. University of Alabama Press. pp. 109–131. ISBN 9780817306007.
  • Elizabeth Reitz; C. Margaret Scarry; Sylvia J. Scudder, eds. (2007). Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology (2 ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-0387713021.
  • Reitz, Elizabeth J.; Wing, Elizabeth S. (2008). Zooarchaeology. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology (2 ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521857260.
  • Reitz, Elizabeth J.; Pavao-Zuckerman, Barnet; Weinand, Daniel; Duncan, Gwyneth A. C. (2010). Mission and Pueblo of Santa Catalina de Guale, St. Catherines Island, Georgia: A Comparative Zooarchaeological Analysis. American Museum of Natural History Anthropological Papers. North American Archaeology Fund, AMNH. hdl:2246/6036. ISBN 978-1939302175.
  • Elizabeth J. Reitz; Irvy R. Quitmyer; David Hurst Thomas, eds. (2012). Seasonality and Human Mobility Along the Georgia Bight. American Museum of Natural History Anthropological Papers. North American Archaeology Fund, AMNH. hdl:2246/6164. ISBN 978-1939302212.
  • Zierden, Martha A.; Reitz, Elizabeth J. (2016). Charleston: An Archaeology of Life in a Coastal Community. University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0813062907.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Walton, Marsha Walton (February 20, 2014). "Elizabeth Reitz is unearthing ancient cultures". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  2. ^ AAAS
  3. ^ Flurry, Alan (May 1, 2014). "UGA's Reitz named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences". UGA Today. University of Georgia. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  4. ^ AmAcad
  5. ^ "Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Research for 2021". Society for American Archaeology. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
  6. ^ "2016 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Elizabeth J. Reitz". Society for American Archaeology. 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  7. ^ "ICAZ Committee of Honor Members" (PDF). International Council for Zooarchaeology. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  8. ^ "Southeastern Archaeological Conference » Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients". Retrieved 2020-01-17.
  9. ^ Orchard, Trevor J. (2009). "Review Reviewed Work: Zooarchaeology (2nd Edition) by Elizabeth J. Reitz, Elizabeth S. Wing". Canadian Journal of Archaeology. Canadian Archaeological Association. 33 (1): 158–161. JSTOR 41103655.
  10. ^ Landon, David B. (2009). "An Update on Zooarchaeology and Historical Archaeology: Progress and Prospects". In Teresita Majewski and David Gaimster (ed.). International Handbook of Historical Archaeology. Springer. p. 79. ISBN 9780387720715.
  11. ^ Lyman, R. Lee (2008). Quantitative Paleozoology. Cambridge University Press. p. 103. ISBN 9781139471121.

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