Long-Term Changes in Human-Animal Relationships on the Pajarito Plateau

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Previous research from the northern American Southwest suggests that human populations gradually transitioned their animal-based diet away from artiodactyls to a focus on lagomorphs and turkeys throughout the Basketmaker to Pueblo periods. Faunal data from the Coalition period on the Pajarito Plateau suggests that a similar pattern was present throughout the 1150s-1300s A.D./C.E. In this poster, we examine several zooarchaeological metrics to identify whether a similar pattern of human subsistence change occurred throughout the entire Developmental to Classic period (600-1600 A.D./C.E.) on the Pajarito Plateau. Given the long-term human occupation of this region in the northern Rio Grande of New Mexico and the diversity and availability of wild game populations, this analysis provides an important investigation for determining the exact processes of human occupation, landscape and subsistence use and turkey husbandry and management prior to and during the Ancestral Pueblo era.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeologies of the Eastern Jemez Mountain Range and the Pajarito Plateau: Interagency Collaboration for Management of Cultural Landscapes   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24672