Great Plains, Diet Breadth (Other Keyword)
1-1 (1 Record)
Long-Term Dietary Change among Hunters of the North American Great Plains (2021)
DOCUMENT
Citation Only
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...