Avian Evidence as a Proxy for Investigating Behavioral and Environmental Change at the Harris Site

Summary

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

The Harris Site (LA 1867) is a Late Pithouse-period (A.D. 550-1000) agricultural village located along the upper Mimbres River Valley in New Mexico. Faunal remains recovered from the Harris site indicate that inhabitants continued to depend on a wide variety of wild resources even as they transitioned into a more sedentary agricultural subsistence strategy. The bird remains in particular illuminate how people living at the Harris site were producing changes in their surrounding environment and altering the ways in which they were interacting with a wide variety of bird species. We present our analysis of these remains and their depositional contexts with the aim of better understanding how complex human-environmental management strategies and their cascading effects on particular species may be reflected archaeologically.

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): 53950