Opportunity in the Garden: An Analysis of Zooarchaeological Materials from Southwest Agricultural Sites

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This research provides a biogeography of animals using zooarchaeological remains on the Colorado Plateau, a geographical region encompassing the Four Corners. The data are used to develop an environmental reconstruction for the northern Southwest to examine the conditions in which agriculture developed, specifically the human exploitation of animals in agricultural fields. This research includes zooarchaeological data stored at the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) from four locales: the Coconino National Forest, Navajo National Monument, Wupatki National Monument, and Walnut Canyon National Monument. Faunal analysis includes taxonomic identification, using skeletal features and materials from comparative faunal collections at both the Northern Arizona University, Department of Anthropology, Faunal Analysis Laboratory (NAUDAFAL) and the Charles L. Douglas Vertebrate Zoology Collection at the MNA. This poster presents the resulting data and demonstrates the relationship humans maintained with wild animals, further supporting the Garden Hunting hypothesis.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 33116