Zooarchaeological Analysis of Subsistence Practices at the Lake Roberts Vista Site (LA71877), Gila National Forest, New Mexico

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Current Zooarchaeology: New and Ongoing Approaches" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Faunal subsistence practices remain understudied throughout the Mimbres region, even as the general pattern of large-mammal resource reduction through time is known. This poster documents the faunal subsistence practices at Lake Roberts Vista (LRV), a Mimbres site occupied during the Late Pithouse (LPH) and Classic Mimbres (CM) periods (AD 550–1130). I also compare the LRV subsistence practices with five contemporaneous sites within the Mimbres region, chosen to represent a broad range of elevations and environments. During the LPH-CM periods, LRV experienced changes in domestic architecture (pithouse to pueblo) and settlement patterns (semi-mobile to sedentary) and an increase in population and dependence on agricultural products. The LRV site is above the Sapillo Creek, a tributary of the Gila River, and is set within an environment more favorable for Artiodactyla populations than in the Mimbres Valley. As well, the inhabitants of LRV remained seasonally mobile far longer than those in the Mimbres Valley.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Current Zooarchaeology: New and Ongoing Approaches

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Abstract Id(s): 32105