Editing Zooarchaeology (section)

==Development==
The development of zooarchaeology in eastern North America can be broken up into three different periods.<ref name="Landon2005">{{cite journal|last=Landon|first=David B.|title=Zooarchaeology and Historical Archaeology: Progress and Prospects|journal=Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory|year=2005|volume=12|issue=1|pages=1–36|doi=10.1007/s10816-005-2395-7|s2cid=12323687}}</ref> The first being the [[Formative stage|Formative period]] starting around the 1860s, the second being the Systematization period beginning in the early 1950s, and lastly the Integration period which began about 1969.<ref name="Landon2005" /> 
Full-time zooarchaeologists came to be during the Systematization period.<ref name="Landon2005" /> Prior to the Systemization period, it was just a technique that was applied but not specifically studied.

Zooarchaeological specialists started to come about partly because of a new approach to archaeology known as [[processual archaeology]].<ref name="Thomas1996">{{cite journal|last=Thomas|first=Kenneth D.|title=Zooarchaeology: Past, Present and Future|journal=World Archaeology |year=1996|volume=28|issue=1|pages=1–4|pmid=16475284 |doi=10.1080/00438243.1996.9980327}}</ref> This approach puts more emphasis on explaining why things happened, not just what happened.<ref name="Thomas1996" /> [[Archaeology|Archaeologists]] began to specialize in zooarchaeology, and their numbers increased.<ref name="Thomas1996" />