San Francisco Bay, Zooarchaeology, Resource Depression, Foraging Theory, Ancient DNA (Other Keyword)

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Late Holocene Resource Depression in San Francisco Bay: Recent Research with Tule Elk, Sturgeon, and Waterfowl (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Broughton.

Prehistoric resource depression has been widely documented in many late Holocene contexts characterized by expanding human population densities and some of the most detailed records of this phenomenon have been derived from the San Francisco Bay area of California. I summarize here recent analyses focusing on tule elk, waterfowl, and sturgeon from multiple regional sites using traditional zooarchaeological measures of resource depression but also those drawing on allometric size relationships,...