Bone isotopes, eggshell and turkey husbandry at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo

Conrad, Cyler; Jones, Emily Lena; Newsome, Seth D.; Schwartz, Douglas W.

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.06.016

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“…( c ) Turkeys from Chihuahua, Northern Mexico, analysed in this study. ( d ) Published isotopic data for the nuclear Puebloan region [ 7 , 15 , 17 , 18 ] and marginal areas [ 16 ] of the SW USA used as comparison with Mexican turkeys. …”

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“…Similar isotopic shifts between wild and managed animals in North and Central America have been observed in turkeys [ 7 , 16 , 30 ], leporids [ 65 , 66 ], deer [ 67 ], wolves, cougar and golden eagle [ 68 ]. In the case of common turkeys, previous isotopic data suggest a strong reliance on maize in both the SW USA and the Maya area [ 7 , 15 , 17 , 18 , 30 ]. It is only in more marginal areas of the American Southwest, where maize was not readily available, that they seem to rely on a mixed C 3 /C 4 diet, suggesting ‘free-range’ husbandry practices [ 16 ].…”

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Diversity of management strategies in Mesoamerican turkeys: archaeological, isotopic and genetic evidence

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The turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) represents one of the few domestic animals of the New World. While current research points to distinct domestication centres in the Southwest USA and Mesoamerica, several questions regarding the number of progenitor populations, and the timing and intensity of turkey husbandry remain unanswered. This study applied ancient mitochondrial DNA and stable isotope (δ13C, δ15N) analysis to 55 archaeological turkey remains from Mexico to investigate pre-contact turkey exploitation in Mesoamerica. Three different (sub)species of turkeys were identified in the archaeological record (M. g. mexicana, M. g. gallopavo and M. ocellata), indicating the exploitation of diverse local populations, as well as the trade of captively reared birds into the Maya area. No evidence of shared maternal haplotypes was observed between Mesoamerica and the Southwest USA, in contrast with archaeological evidence for trade of other domestic products. Isotopic analysis indicates a range of feeding behaviours in ancient Mesoamerican turkeys, including wild foraging, human provisioning and mixed feeding ecologies. This variability in turkey diet decreases through time, with archaeological, genetic and isotopic evidence all pointing to the intensification of domestic turkey management and husbandry, culminating in the Postclassic period.

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Diversity of management strategies in Mesoamerican turkeys: archaeological, isotopic and genetic evidence

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“…This gap in understanding is significant because the generalized documentation of turkeys in the post-contact era strongly suggests a form of small-scale pastoralism where Pueblo peoples allowed turkeys to range outside of villages-a potentially consequential conclusion for modeling pre-contact human-turkey interaction. And, while certain archaeological contexts support this interpretation at sites where known pens are not present (Jones et al 2016;Young 1980), other contexts with clear evidence for turkey pens (Conrad et al 2016;Lang and Harris 1984) do not. Therefore, an examination of the archaeological record is necessary to clarify the structure and diversity of turkey penning throughout the Ancestral Pueblo-era.…”

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Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management

Conrad

2021

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Penning turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) in the Ancestral Pueblo American Southwest/Mexican Northwest (SW/NW) involved the creation or use of a variety of spaces and contexts throughout AD 1–1600 and into the post-contact era. Turkey pens, or captivity, occur through simple tethering, reuse of abandoned pit houses or surface rooms, or creation of pens within villages, plazas, and elsewhere. Turkey dung, droppings, and eggshells are fundamental for determining the presence or absence of pens at archaeological sites. In this paper, I review the archaeological record for turkey pens and focus on three main questions: (1) how are turkey pens identified in the SW/NW, (2) if turkey pen construction or evidence for turkey captivity shifts through time, and (3) what the record of turkey penning informs us regarding the long-term human management of these birds and global perspectives on human–bird/human–animal management. Ancestral Pueblo peoples created an adaptive and flexible strategy for turkey penning, which successfully integrated these birds into ceremonial and socioeconomic processes for approximately 1600 years.

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“…The other domestic animal at Arroyo Hondo -turkeysappear to have been managed in very different ways than the Arroyo Hondo canids. The Arroyo Hondo turkeys belonging to the Southwestern domesticate lineage (aHap1) exhibit low-variance d 13 C values in the range of C 4 plants (Figure 4; see Conrad et al 2016;Kemp et al 2017). In addition, osteometric evidence for broken and healed bones among the turkeys and the presence of turkey pens indicate that turkeys at Arroyo Hondo had restricted mobility, controlled diets, and extensive care by the humans with whom they lived (Fothergill 2016;Lang and Harris 1984).…”

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“…We expect canids excavated from burial contexts within architectural features to exhibit d 13 C and d 15 N stable isotope data that reflects diets consistent with human management. Canids that fulfilled a community role at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo could be expected to have had diets similar to those of domesticated dogs, turkeys, and Ancestral Puebloan populations from the Northern Rio Grande (see Conrad, et al 2016;Kellner et al 2010;Spielmann, et al 1990), all of which show enriched 13 C reflecting a diet focused on C 4 plants (likely maize), as well as close clustering of d 13 C and d 15 N values (see Rawlings and Driver 2010). Conversely, if the coyotes and unidentified canids in our sample represent trash disposal and were not treated as members of the Arroyo Hondo community, we would expect them to exhibit d 13 C values suggesting C 3 -based diets and variable d 15 N values.…”

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What Makes a Dog? Stable Isotope Analysis and Human-canid Relationships at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo

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Jones

2018

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Domesticated animals in the prehispanic American Southwest/Mexican Northwest functioned in many roles, but these roles seem to have varied across time and space. In this study, we use bone collagen and apatite carbon (d 13 C col/ap ) and nitrogen (d 15 N) stable isotopes to investigate the role(s) of seven canids from Arroyo Hondo Pueblo (LA 12), a 14 th century site in the northern Rio Grande, New Mexico. Results indicate that in some cases, coyotes seem to have been treated like dogs; in others, dogs seem to have been treated like their wild relatives. In all cases, canids were treated differently than domestic turkeys. We conclude that ethnographic, genetic, geochemical and site-specific contextual data are required to understand the roles of dogs and wild canids in Ancestral Puebloan contexts.Social Media: New isotopic data, combined with previously published provenience and aDNA information, suggest different classifications of canids by Ancestral Puebloans at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo.

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Bone isotopes, eggshell and turkey husbandry at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo

Cited by 14 publications

References 23 publications

Diversity of management strategies in Mesoamerican turkeys: archaeological, isotopic and genetic evidence

Diversity of management strategies in Mesoamerican turkeys: archaeological, isotopic and genetic evidence

Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management

What Makes a Dog? Stable Isotope Analysis and Human-canid Relationships at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo

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