Settlement Ecology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brandon McIntosh.

Through evolutionary ecology and niche construction theory, animal exploitation among the inhabitants of Postclassic Isla Cilvituk (A.D. 900-1520) is explored in light of both subsistence and market strategy. An ecological approach is taken to understand how local ecosystems influenced animal exploitation in relation to hunting strategies and market trade at Isla Cilvituk and other sites across the Maya Lowlands. An ecological approach also contributes relevant data to aid in modern conservation...

PROJECT Rani T Alexander.

With the permission of the Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, intensive archaeological survey, instrument mapping, and test excavations were carried out at Isla Cilvituk from 1994 to 1996. Isla Cilvituk is a large aggregated site, 50 hectares in size, located on an island in Laguna Silvituc and situated in a lacustrine zone that runs to the south from Lake Mocu, Campeche, to the Peten Lakes, Guatemala. We completed a 100 percent full-coverage survey of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rani T Alexander. Elena Canché Manzanero. Richard Burleson. Hea Joo Chung. Juan Carlos Cruz. Michael Glascock. Sergio Hererra. Alejandra Gudino. John A. Hunter. Brian Fortunato. David Lentz. Amanda L. Martinez.

Con la autorización del Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, se llevó al cabo el trabajo de campo entre junio hasta agosto de los años 1994, 1995, y 1996. Los análisis del gabinete y del laboratorio se condujeron durante los meses en medio y los años subsecuentes. La primera fase del proyecto involucró el reconocimiento intensivo, el levantamiento y mapeo del sitio, y excavaciones de sondeo para determinar si era probable que las investigaciones de la...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kristen L. Scudder.

Previous research in Mesoamerican fauna analysis has contributed insights into resource use, but Maya turtle use remains unexamined. Faunal analysis, zooarchaeology, vertebrate taphonomy, and behavioral archaeology provide a guideline into the past taphonomic and life histories of the turtle bones recovered from Isla Cilvituk (A.D. 900-1525). The primary objective of my research is to establish an archaeology model of exploitation of the small and large turtles recovered from Isla...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sean T. Arata.

My main goal with this thesis was to create a sampling design, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which would allow me to determine the best datable contexts at Isla Cilvituk. Once this sampling design was created, I analyzed the spatial distribution of these datable contexts using the frequency of specimens divided by the total volume of each archaeological layer as a measurement of density (m3). This analysis was divided into two parts. The first analysis looked at the distribution...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ruth Maria Martínez Cervantes.

This thesis analyzes the social and subsistence value of the freshwater gasptropod Pomacea spp. in Isla Cilvituk. This is a Postclassic (900 -1525 A.D.) archaeological site on the Maya lowlands. The site is located in Lake Silvituc, Campeche, Mexico. Freshwater resources, such as Pomacea sp., have been neglected from archaeological studies. Scholars have argued that these types of resources are of little importance to the diet, stating that these contain low nutritional value, and even excluding...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard L. Burleson.

The goal of any microwear analysis is to reconstruct as completely as possible the site economy. Once accomplished, such lithic data can then be incorporated into more complex interpretations concerning economic, social, and political organization. This research focuses on the obsidian and chert assemblage from the Postclassic Maya site Isla Cilvituk (AD 900-1545). A replica set of obsidian prismatic blades have been subjected to a full range of activities associated with prehispanic Maya...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric E. Jones. Emma Grace Sprinkle.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This research combines agricultural census data, GIS-based spatial analyses of historic maps, and historic accounts to examine how and why farmers in Fenner, NY transitioned from subsistence to commercial production during 1855-1875. Traditional explanations cite the burgeoning consumer economy and progressive farming movements pushed by corporate entities as factors and propose farmers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mario Castillo. Patricia Fournier.

Based on seminal contributions by Suzy and Paul Fish associated with full-coverage surveys and agave cultivation, this paper explores changes in regional settlement patterns in relation to land-surface morphology in the Tula region in Mesoamerica during the Classic to Postclassic periods (200 CE–1500 CE). Drawing on our field surveys, independent settlement data from the Tula Region, and landform segmentation and classification in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), this paper illustrates that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucas Kellett.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines the settlement ecology of late prehistoric camelid pastoralists of the Andahuaylas region of southern highland Peru. In particular, the paper synthesizes survey based settlement data collected from the Chanka Settlement Project (PAC, 2005-2006) and Andahuaylas Puna Project (PAPA, 2018) and highlights variable settlement patterns and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hayden F. Bassett. Madeleine Gunter Bassett.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes Above and Below in Southern Contexts (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between the 1730s and the 1820s, European settlement expanded into Virginia’s southern Piedmont and Appalachian Mountains. The mountainous terrain of southwestern Virginia was a stark contrast to the long-settled coastal plains, with new ecological and sociocultural conditions challenging established forms of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paisley C. Palmer.

The purpose of my thesis is to analyze the deer from the zooarchaeological assemblage recovered from the archaeological site of Isla Cilvituk, Campeche, Mexico, to determine if environmental depression affected Isla Cilvituk. Isla Cilvituk is a Maya archaeological site located in a lacustrine region on the Yucatán peninsula. Environmental depression is defined as the destruction of ecosystems by the mismanagement of resources and/or climate shifts. I focus on deforestation and animal...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John A. Hunter.

Zooarchaeological, taphonomic, and behavioral analyses offered insight into human-animal relationships at the Maya archaeological site, Isla Cilvituk (AD 900-1525), located in southwestern Campeche, Mexico. Taxonomic abundance, spatial analyses, and reconstruction of animal life histories provided evidence of taxonomic abundance; species are not statistically associated with elite and non-elite structure types, butchering and cut marks are evidence, differential disposal is not evident in...