Joslin’s research focuses on the archaeology and historical ecology of coastal and island peoples along the central and south-central coast of California. She has active field projects on California’s Northern Channel Islands and the central California Coast, which are collaborative with researchers from a variety of disciplines (anthropology, biology, ecology) and focus on prehistoric and environmental interactions.
Her experience identifying fish remains in archaeological collections from central California, mainland Santa Barbara Channel, and the Northern Channel Islands provides the unique ability to quickly and authoritatively analyze marine fish elements. She has prepared fish over 50 identification and analysis studies for environmental consulting firms, universities, and researchers. These analyses included cataloging remains according to count, weight, cultural and natural bone modifications, species, element, and calculation of Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI). The data are then analyzed to interpret reconstruct the use of marine environments, season of capture, and fishing technological organization. Her ongoing studies concerning the evolution of fishing practices promises to reveal insights into the implications of temporal changes in fishing technology integral to understanding the evolution of maritime adaptations around the Pacific Rim.
Terry has an avid interest in public education in archaeology, and has consistently given presentations to school groups, Native American tribes and organizations, museums, archaeological societies, and the general public regularly over the last 20 years. Devoted to education she has instructed, trained, managed, and collaborating with graduate and undergraduate students in a variety of contexts. In these authentic learning environments (such as laboratory and field classes, archeological field schools, research fieldwork, experimental archaeology studies, and cultural resources management projects) she has successfully integrated her research goals with teaching students the skills they need for their own archaeological pursuits. Since 2010 she is the Committee Chair for the Society for California Archaeology's James A. Bennyhoff Memorial Fund Award, a grant that supports original research on the prehistory of California and the Great Basin. As Committee Chair, she is working with the Society to expand the student interest in both public education, cultural resource management, and research.
An Addendum to Harrington's Northern Salinan Place Names
Prehistoric Plant Use in the Cuyama Valley; The Importance of Small Sites
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Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis: Insights from California Archaeology
How does the practice of archaeology benefit from faunal analysis? Michael Glassow and Terry Joslin’s Exploring Methods of Faunal Analysis: Insights from California Archaeology addresses this question. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how faunal remains can be used to elucidate subsistence, settlement, technological systems, economic exchange, social organization, adaptation to variability in resource distribution and abundance, and the impacts of historic land use. The sheer prevalence of faunal remains in California archaeological sites means that most archaeologists working in the state inevitably must give these resources their close attention—and yet methodological challenges remain. The chapters in this thoughtfully edited volume tackle these challenges, providing strategies for identifying and mitigating sample bias and recommending quantitative techniques borrowed from a variety of disciplines. The volume also presents examples that illustrate the use of faunal data to test hypotheses derived from microeconomic theory, the applicability of bone and shell chemistry to faunal analysis, and the relevance of faunal data to addressing issues in biology.
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