When Charismatic Megafauna Meet: The Relationship between Archaeologists and Proboscideans in North America

Author(s): Nicole Waguespack

Year: 2015

Summary

Archaeologists have a unique relationship with the faunal record of proboscideans. The interpretative histories associated with mammoths and mastodons, particularly in North America, are wholly unlike those of other zooarchaeological species both extinct and extant. Distinctively divisive, consequential, and enduring, the interpretive attention and rhetoric focused on proboscideans has proceeded largely independent of the known inventory of sites and assemblages in Pleistocene North America. Tracking temporal trends in proboscidean site discovery and subsequent professional attention in the literature reveals the disjuncture between the faunal record of extinct charismatic megafauna and the charismatic megafauna who study them.

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When Charismatic Megafauna Meet: The Relationship between Archaeologists and Proboscideans in North America. Nicole Waguespack. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 394946)

Keywords

Geographic Keywords
North America - Plains

Spatial Coverage

min long: -113.95; min lat: 30.751 ; max long: -97.163; max lat: 48.865 ;