Integrating Isotopic and Paleopathological Perspectives on Prehistoric Turkey Management at Turkey Creek Pueblo

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Isotopic and Animal aDNA Analyses in the Southwest/Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Prehistoric inhabitants of the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest utilized domestic and wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) for food, feathers, and ceremonial purposes. Existing archaeological studies on turkey domestication and management emphasize isotopic and genetic data, typically focusing on assemblages from the Four Corners and Chaco Canyon. We expand this discussion to the Mogollon Rim using turkey remains from Turkey Creek Pueblo in eastern Arizona. We employ data on healed fractures identified in turkey wing and leg bones coupled with preliminary carbon, nitrogen, and strontium isotopic analyses to explore wild and domestic turkey management and use.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Isotopic and Animal aDNA Analyses in the Southwest/Northwest   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36004.0