Current Research on Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Domestication, Husbandry and Management in North America and Beyond

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Current Research on Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Domestication, Husbandry and Management in North America and Beyond," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Recent turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) based archaeological studies highlight the diversity and complexity of domestication, as well as turkey husbandry and management strategies by peoples living in pre-contact North America. Turkeys appear in a variety of socioeconomic contexts as playing a significant role in past societies in Mesoamerica, the American Southwest/Mexican Northwest, the Southeast/Northeast United States, Southern Canada, and after contact, in Europe. In this session, papers discuss recent and ongoing turkey research from throughout North America and Europe. We aim to better establish a current overview of what we know and what we do not know about past human-turkey interactions.

Other Keywords
Zooarchaeology • Subsistence and Foodways: Domestication • Ancestral Pueblo • Pueblo • ancient DNA • Ethnohistory/History • Domestication • Paleopathology • Plains Archaeology • Feathers

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country) • USA (Country) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Texas (State / Territory) • Sonora (State / Territory) • Chihuahua (State / Territory) • Colorado (State / Territory)

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