Dietary Differences of Hunter-Gatherers and Agriculturalists: A Temporal Investigation at the La Playa Site in Sonora, Mexico

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The examination of maize integration into Early Agricultural populations has resulted in a standard anthropological model to be developed concerning the expected trajectory into maize reliance. Exploring these expected changes through multiple datasets e.g. land management, stable isotope analysis, and bioarchaeological evidence at the site of La Playa in Sonora, Mexico presents the opportunity to analyze a skeletal population that is representative of each phase of the Early Agricultural period. As agricultural practices are known to be revolutionary to prehistoric people, this presentation will highlight within one population the subtleties of dietary changes as the population changed from hunter-gatherer practices to agriculturists during the Early Agricultural period. This presentation seeks to compile additional stable isotope results for the interpretation of how Early Agricultural behavior at La Playa is representative of larger developments throughout the Greater Southwest through gender differentiation, mobility, and the transition to agricultural dependence.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 52301