Subsistence Crops and Animals as a Proxy for Human Cultural Practice

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Subsistence Crops and Animals as a Proxy for Human Cultural Practice" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Agroecological systems can be thought of across three dimensions: (1) plant and human biology, (2) the local biotic and abiotic community, and (3) human cultural practice. Modern agroecological systems are the result of millennia of negotiations between human practices, population biology, and environmental conformation. Archaeological practices allow us to observe these processes over time and space using landscape approaches to understand management practices and past environments, stylistic analysis to inform cultural understanding, and ancient DNA to interrogate biological changes as these systems developed.

Other Keywords
Paleoethnobotany • Subsistence and Foodways: Domestication • Neolithic • Environment and Climate  • Subsistence and Foodways • Paleoecology • Cultural Transmission • stable isotope analysis • Indigenous • ancient DNA

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • United Mexican States (Country) • Hidalgo (State / Territory) • Colima (State / Territory) • Queretaro (State / Territory) • Michoacan (State / Territory) • Mexico (State / Territory) • Morelos (State / Territory) • Jalisco (State / Territory) • Nayarit (State / Territory)

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  1. The Adoption of Agriculture in the Tehuacan Valley, Mexico: Stable Isotope Data for 10,000 Years of Environmental and Dietary Change (2023)
  2. Indigenous Land Use and Cultural Burning in the Amazon Rainforest Ecotone (2023)
  3. Investigating the Principles of “Good Farming”: A Comparison of Traditional Agrarianism and Indigenous Land Use and Cultivation (2023)
  4. Lakescapes/Landscapes in the Prehispanic Basin of Mexico: Recent Evidence for Early Subsistence Adaptations (2023)
  5. The Location for the Origin of Domesticated Sorghum in Africa: A Brief Review of Some Cultures in the Sahara, Nile, and Sahel (2023)
  6. Maize Adaptation to Changing Environments (2023)
  7. Preliminary Insights into the Biocultural Trajectory of Maize in Southwestern Amazonia (2023)
  8. Spread of Maize into Temperate North America (2023)
  9. Unentangling Hotspots and Episodes in Pre-domestication Cultivation of Cereals: Examples from West and East Asia (2023)
  10. Was Setaria Domesticated in Tehuacan? (2023)