Faunal changes in farming communities from Basketmaker II to Pueblo III (A.D. 1–1300) in the San Juan Basin of the American Southwest

Large game, agricultural land, and settlement pattern change in the eastern Mimbres area, southwest New Mexico

“…Other studies in the US Southwest document similar depletion of large game in the immediate environs of large, long-occupied villages (Badenhorst and Driver, 2009;Cannon, 2001;Driver, 2002;James, 2004;Spielmann and Angstadt-Leto, 1996;Szuter and Bayham, 1989;Szuter and Gillespie, 1994). One sobering aspect of this analysis is the apparent ease with which humans could push a sensitive resource into a state of decline from which recovery was quite difficult as long as any sizeable human population remained in the area.…”

Paleodiet of domestic turkey, Shields Pueblo (5MT3807), Colorado: isotopic analysis and its implications for care of a household domesticate

“…Sites dating to the Pueblo III period (A.D. 1150e1300) show a distinct drop in the amount of Artiodactyla (mainly deer) and other large mammalian game when compared to preceding temporal periods (Badenhorst, 2008;Badenhorst and Driver, 2009;Driver, 1997Driver, , 2002Driver et al, 1999;Muir, 1999;Rawlings, 2006). During this temporal period there was also a greater dependence upon domesticated turkey and upon small hunted game (especially cottontail rabbit and jackrabbit).…”

“…There were two major cycles of aggregation and dispersal in this region, occurring during the Pueblo I through Pueblo III time periods (see Lipe and Varian, 1999;Varien, 1999Varien, , 2002Wilshusen, 2002). It is during the final period of aggregation/population growth that the frequency of large game species (Artiodactyla) noticeably declines in the faunal assemblages of many village sites and is replaced by small locally available game and domesticated turkey (Badenhorst and Driver, 2009).…”

Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis

“…A total of nine lagomorph ('L1' -'L9'), nine turkey ('M1' -'M9'), and four sciurid ('S1' -'S4') specimens were selected from faunas recovered from four sites, Harlan Great Kiva (5MT16805), Thunder Knoll (5MT16778), Midway House (5MT16783), and Monsoon House (5MT16808), that span the Pueblo II (AD 950-1150) and Pueblo III (AD 1150-1350) time periods of the American Southwest (Table 1). Lagomorphs and turkeys were important components of prehistoric diet and are abundant in archaeological faunas; sciurid remains are less common (Badenhorst and Driver 2009;Muir and Driver 2002). All bone specimens were identified on the basis of diagnostic morphological characteristics and through comparison to reference materials housed in the University of North Texas Laboratory of Zooarchaeology following standards published by Driver (1992Driver ( , 2011 and Wolverton (2013).…”