Analysis of ancient DNA from South American rhea bones: Implications for zooarchaeology and biogeography

Abbona, Cinthia; Lebrasseur, Ophélie; Johnson, Jeff; Giardina, Miguel; Neme, Gustavo; Wolverton, Steve

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.05.035

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“…En Mendoza, la problemática específica de la presencia de aves en contextos arqueológicos fue abordada en el sur de la provincia (Abbona et al, 2019;Giardina, 2006Giardina, , 2010entre otros). Estos trabajos ofrecieron respuestas al tipo de dieta y a la forma de explotación del recurso animal que llevaron a cabo las sociedades cazadoras-recolectoras.…”

Section: Reconocimiento De Aves En El Registro Arqueológico Del Coaunclassified

A vuelo de pájaro. Aves en el registro arqueológico, etnográfico y etnohistórico de Mendoza y San Juan (Centro Oeste argentino)

Chiavazza,

Guardia,

Prieto-Olavarría

2023

Rev. Mus. Antrop.

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Si bien, existen menciones en trabajos etnohistóricos, etnográficos y arqueológicos, no se ha ponderado, salvo excepciones, el rol que tuvieron las aves en la vida humana en el Centro Oeste argentino. A partir del relevamiento de información arqueológica, histórica y etnográfica, se evidencia que, en una historia de larga duración, en los diversos contextos sociales y culturales que se desarrollaron en el área, las aves no limitaron su aporte a la subsistencia, sino que participaron dentro de sistemas de representación visual que suponen iconografías y usos derivados de sistemas de creencias, rituales y símbolos de poder. Se propone que la presencia de las aves fue constante y significativa en los contextos arqueológicos y no se limitó solo a la evidencia osteoarqueológica ya que se halla representada en una gran variedad de soportes, además de su mención en relatos etnográficos y documentales. Desde esta perspectiva, se plantea que es un registro que debe insertarse con mayor énfasis en la agenda de investigaciones futuras en la región.

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Section: Reconocimiento De Aves En El Registro Arqueológico Del Coaunclassified

A vuelo de pájaro. Aves en el registro arqueológico, etnográfico y etnohistórico de Mendoza y San Juan (Centro Oeste argentino)

Chiavazza,

Guardia,

Prieto-Olavarría

2023

Rev. Mus. Antrop.

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“…Very few parallels exist interrogating the population dynamics of extant wild species (but see e.g. Abbona et al, 2019;Heino et al 2019) although the archaeological record would be a fantastic reservoir of genomic data to improve our understanding of long-term population dynamics, in particular for endangered species (e.g. Fordham et al, 2020).…”

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Zooarchaeology and Ancient DNA, part 1: a brief review of the methods and applications

Manin¹,

Lebrasseur²

2021

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Ancient DNA (aDNA) analyses from archaeological animal remains is well suited to many of the objectives investigated through zooarchaeological analyses. This paper aims at presenting the field of palaeogenomics, particularly in its application to zooarchaeological questions. While it does not seek for exhaustivity, it focuses on practical issues, hoping to promote trans-disciplinary dialogues. The authors begin with a presentation of the nature of aDNA and the main taphonomic pathways leading to its differential preservation. Then the authors offer a brief historical review of the aDNA techniques, from the early discoveries of 1984–1985 to the advent of next generation sequencing and high throughput approaches at the beginning of the 21st century. The aurhors describe the main challenges of aDNA research in recent years as it needs to adapt to a new range of methods and how the study of animal remains has been impacted. Finally, the authors highlight the main outcomes of the application of aDNA to describe animals and their populations and future lines of research that could be explored.

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“…Even though morphometry has many advantages, researchers recognize the limitations of the approach, especially for making inferences concerning past geographic range extension based on small sample sizes [38,[59][60][61][62]. In contrast, analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA (aDNA) generated from zooarchaeological samples can provide a stronger approach for species identification including population-level comparisons in current and archaeological contexts when species identification is less conclusive based on morphology [63][64][65][66][67]. Analysis of DNA from domestic and wild species can also help delineate domestication events [68][69][70].…”

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Were domestic camelids present on the prehispanic South American agricultural frontier? An ancient DNA study

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The southern boundary of prehispanic farming in South America occurs in central Mendoza Province, Argentina at approximately 34 degrees south latitude. Archaeological evidence of farming includes the recovery of macrobotanical remains of cultigens and isotopic chemistry of human bone. Since the 1990s, archaeologists have also hypothesized that the llama (Lama glama), a domesticated South American camelid, was also herded near the southern boundary of prehispanic farming. The remains of a wild congeneric camelid, the guanaco (Lama guanicoe), however, are common in archaeological sites throughout Mendoza Province. It is difficult to distinguish bones of the domestic llama from wild guanaco in terms of osteological morphology, and therefore, claims that llama were in geographic areas where guanaco were also present based on osteometric analysis alone remain equivocal. A recent study, for example, claimed that twenty-five percent of the camelid remains from the high elevation Andes site of Laguna del Diamante S4 were identified based on osteometric evidence as domestic llama, but guanaco are also a likely candidate since the two species overlap in size. We test the hypothesis that domesticated camelids occurred in prehispanic, southern Mendoza through analysis of ancient DNA. We generated whole mitochondrial genome datasets from 41 samples from southern Mendoza late Holocene archaeological sites, located between 450 and 3400 meters above sea level (masl). All camelid samples from those sites were identified as guanaco; thus, we have no evidence to support the hypothesis that the domestic llama occurred in prehispanic southern Mendoza.

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Analysis of ancient DNA from South American rhea bones: Implications for zooarchaeology and biogeography

Cited by 5 publications

References 48 publications

A vuelo de pájaro. Aves en el registro arqueológico, etnográfico y etnohistórico de Mendoza y San Juan (Centro Oeste argentino)

A vuelo de pájaro. Aves en el registro arqueológico, etnográfico y etnohistórico de Mendoza y San Juan (Centro Oeste argentino)

Zooarchaeology and Ancient DNA, part 1: a brief review of the methods and applications

Were domestic camelids present on the prehispanic South American agricultural frontier? An ancient DNA study

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