@article {13852,
	title = {The Unanticipated Legacy of Howard G. Savage: Reflections on Teaching, Learning, and Practising Zooarchaeology in Ontario},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology},
	volume = {47},
	year = {2023},
	pages = {130-154},
	abstract = {<p>Dr. Howard G. Savage, one of the founders of zooarchaeology in Canada, taught the Faunal Archaeo-Osteology course at the University of Toronto from the 1970s to the 1990s. Hundreds of students completed the course, taking away a solid appreciation of zooarchaeological data generation, representation, and analysis. In this article, we consider why the course had a profoundly positive influence on so many students and examine how Dr.\&nbsp;Savage{\textquoteright}s legacy lives on in zooarchaeology in Ontario. We then interrogate the appropriateness of transferring lessons of an undergraduate course into professional approaches and find that this transferring has indirectly resulted in an arbitrary and insufficiently large sample size appearing in government guidelines for professional archaeologists. Similarly, practices that were deemed appropriate in a university course context, such as a tendency to not identify fish vertebrae, have carried over into professional standards and practice and have resulted in biased zooarchaeological datasets. We argue that accepted practices within zooarchaeology in the province need to be revised and strengthened.</p>},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/47.2.130},
	author = {T. Max Friesen and Alicia L. Hawkins and Suzanne Needs-Howarth and Trevor J. Orchard and Frances L. Stewart}
}
