The Socioecological Dynamics of Holocene Foragers and Farmers
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 "The Socioecological Dynamics of Holocene Foragers and Farmers" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
This symposium brings together researchers working on long-term changes in the socioecology of foraging and farming populations in North America. We attempt to answer key questions, such as, How do climate and population interact to drive long-term changes in hunting and plant food processing; and how do such changes in subsistence practices, in turn, impact population growth, group size, and burial practices among-foragers/farmers? The symposium aims to better understand such questions by bringing together specialists working on case studies in the semiarid grasslands of North America. Each poster will present data on long-term changes in material culture, climate, subsistence, and/or population processes, and the posters will each present different methodological approaches to understanding the long-term interactions between climate, population dynamics, and social/subsistence change.
Other Keywords
Fremont •
Chronology •
demography •
Geoarchaeology •
Mortuary Analysis •
Zooarchaeology •
Dating Techniques •
Paleoethnobotany •
Pastoralism •
Human Behavioral Ecology
Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
USA (Country) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
Utah (State / Territory) •
Nevada (State / Territory) •
California (State / Territory) •
North America •
United Mexican States (Country) •
Department of Martinique (Country)
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The Age and Function of Slab-Lined Stone Features Associated with a Fremont Foraging-Farming Landscape in Cub Creek, Dinosaur National Monument, Northeastern Utah (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "The Socioecological Dynamics of Holocene Foragers and Farmers" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Utah’s Fremont archaeological complex is well-known as a transitional foraging-farming society from AD 300–1300. Individual Fremont systems included a set of bundled agricultural niches with associated foraging ranges. In a recent survey above Cub Creek in Dinosaur National Monument, we discovered many slab-lined stone...
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Agriculture, Group Size, and Resource Richness (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "The Socioecological Dynamics of Holocene Foragers and Farmers" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents data on the area, group size, and prey/plant richness of agricultural and pastoral societies. We test the hypotheses that (1) the richness of prey harvested by human groups correlates with the well-known species richness-latitude gradient; (2) that as groups increase their commitment to agriculture, they...
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Climate, Prey Choice, Signaling, and Risk: An Integrated Analysis of Holocene Hunting in the Bonneville and Wyoming Basins, USA (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "The Socioecological Dynamics of Holocene Foragers and Farmers" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this poster, we synthesize the available empirical data on return rates for artiodactyls and lagomorphs and explore and integrate different currencies to guide a trans-Holocene analysis of variation in artiodactyl hunting using massive archaeofaunal datasets from predominantly open-air sites from the Bonneville and Wyoming...
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Did Arroyo Formation Impact the Occupation of Snake Rock Village, a Fremont Dryland Agricultural Community in Central Utah ca. AD 1000 through 1200? (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "The Socioecological Dynamics of Holocene Foragers and Farmers" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fremont farmers of the northern Colorado Plateau grew maize at the margins of cultivation in western North America. Like other Indigenous farmers throughout the American Southwest, Fremont farmers used bundled agricultural niches where alluvial floodplains were the largest available site for cultivation. But dryland...
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Fremont Legacy in Capitol Reef and the Waterpocket Fold: A Radiocarbon Analysis of the Pectol Collection Coiled Basketry Using Bayesian Modeling (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "The Socioecological Dynamics of Holocene Foragers and Farmers" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Perishable artifacts provide ample opportunity to understand the past, and radiocarbon dating is one area where artifacts constructed from annual plants can make a significant contribution. The analysis and dating of basketry from the Pectol Collection, an important collection of Fremont baskets from Utah’s Capitol Reef...
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High-Precision AMS Radiocarbon Chronologies Demonstrate Short-Lived Agricultural Village Occupations on the Northern Colorado Plateau (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "The Socioecological Dynamics of Holocene Foragers and Farmers" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Fremont archaeological complex provides an important window into the socioecological dynamics underwriting the formation of settled pithouse communities in the western North America drylands. We developed high-precision AMS radiocarbon chronologies based on short-lived annuals for four Fremont sites (Cub Creek, Caldwell...
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Morhiss and Buckeye Knoll Cemetery Sites: A Comparison of Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Chronologies and Traditions (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "The Socioecological Dynamics of Holocene Foragers and Farmers" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located on the Guadalupe River in Victoria County, Texas, Morhiss (41VT1) and Buckeye Knoll (41VT98) represent two of the oldest and largest hunter-gatherer cemeteries in the United States. Recent accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating of 90 burials at the Morhiss site offers unique insights into its mortuary complex. AMS...
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Population, Sex, and Diet (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "The Socioecological Dynamics of Holocene Foragers and Farmers" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents comparative data on human bone chemistry to infer sex differences in prehistoric diets. We collected a global sample of human bone isotope data. Next, we joined these data with the global radiocarbon data set developed by the People 3000 Research Network, as well as paleoclimate models and data. Finally,...
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Repeated Hunter-Gatherer Intensification and Population Decline Events (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "The Socioecological Dynamics of Holocene Foragers and Farmers" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We test a general hypothesis that may explain large population decline events among human populations: the intensification of production generates a cross-scale tradeoff between individuals generating a surplus of energy to maximize their fitness and the vulnerability of a population as a whole to large decline events, known...