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Long-Term Dietary Change among Hunters of the North American Great Plains (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Hill. Erik Otárola-Castillo. Melissa Torquato.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The 13,000-year-long record of hunting by North American Great Plains populations is often portrayed as an almost exclusive reliance on large-bodied prey, such as bison. This simplified perspective ignores temporal and regional variability in environmental conditions and changes in human-prey dynamics, making exclusive reliance on a single taxon unlikely. The...