Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Archaeozoology and Paleontology at the Basin of Mexico: A Reappraisal 40 Years after Early Views

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization, Part 2" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Back in 1970s, a great effort was undertaken to synthethize the knowledge of human and environmental relationships in the Basin of Mexico, which could be extended to at least 24,000 years BP. Since then, further studies were warranted after initial results and research has been conducted using new techniques and analyses. Here, we report on that research from the archaeozoology and vertebrate palentology realms. We reviewed all of the available publications and much "grey" literature to obtain the most complete list of animals occurring in the range time from about 30,000 to 6,000 years BP. A large vertebrate diversity was found for the Late Pleistocene, while such diversity has been depleted to the present, initially due to natural proxies, like volcanic events, but later mostly due to direct and indirect impacts from human activities. It is advisable that further interdisciplinary studies are undertaken, but also advisable that private developers need to rescue any bone remains that are found as a collaborative effort to enhance our knowledge on the region beyond biodiversity and propose conservation goals for the future.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Legacies of The Basin of Mexico: The Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization, Part 2   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25509