Late Pleistocene and Holocene Bison of the Colorado Plateau

Martin, Jeff M.; Martin, Rachel A.; Mead, Jim I.

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“…The northwestern Arizona region with modeled δ 13 C values consistent with the FS-305 ankle wrap sample is known to have supported bison during the Late Prehistoric period (Martin et al 2017). Open-air sites with Promontory material culture associations dating approximately 100–200 years later than the Promontory cave deposits occur on the eastern shore of Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake (Janetski and Smith 2007), along the least-cost path route to this part of northwestern Arizona (Supplemental Text 2).…”

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“…The northwestern Arizona region with modeled δ 13 C values consistent with the FS-305 ankle wrap sample is known to have supported bison during the Late Prehistoric period (Martin et al 2017). Open-air sites with Promontory material culture associations dating approximately 100-200 years later than the Promontory Serially sampled hair results were averaged to produce a single value for each individual hair before being included here.…”

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Isotopic Evidence for Long-Distance Connections of the AD Thirteenth-Century Promontory Caves Occupants

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The Promontory caves (Utah) and Franktown Cave (Colorado) contain high-fidelity records of short-term occupations by groups with material culture connections to the Subarctic/Northern Plains. This research uses Promontory and Franktown bison dung, hair, hide, and bone collagen to establish local baseline carbon isotopic variability and identify leather from a distant source. The ankle wrap of one Promontory Cave 1 moccasin had a δ13C value that indicates a substantial C4 component to the animal's diet, unlike the C3 diets inferred from 171 other Promontory and northern Utah bison samples. We draw on a unique combination of multitissue isotopic analysis, carbon isoscapes, ancient DNA (species and sex identification), tissue turnover rates, archaeological contexts, and bison ecology to show that the high δ13C value was not likely a result of local plant consumption, bison mobility, or trade. Instead, the bison hide was likely acquired via long-distance travel to/from an area of abundant C4 grasses far to the south or east. Expansive landscape knowledge gained through long-distance associations would have allowed Promontory caves inhabitants to make well-informed decisions about directions and routes of movement for a territorial shift, which seems to have occurred in the late thirteenth century.

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“…The northwestern Arizona region with modeled δ 13 C values consistent with the FS-305 ankle wrap sample is known to have supported bison during the Late Prehistoric period (Martin et al 2017). Open-air sites with Promontory material culture associations dating approximately 100-200 years later than the Promontory Serially sampled hair results were averaged to produce a single value for each individual hair before being included here.…”

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Isotopic Evidence for Long-Distance Connections of the AD Thirteenth-Century Promontory Caves Occupants

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“…Inter‐agency bison management plan (Martin et al., 2017; Plumb & McMullen, 2018)…”

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Vulnerability assessment of the multi‐sector North American bison Bison bison management system to climate change

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“…The female jaguar slain in 1963 had elk remains in her digestive system, though these may have been scavenged carrion (Brown & López González, 2001). Historically jaguar distribution overlapped with bison on the Colorado Plateau (Martin, Martin, & Mead, 2017).…”

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The case for reintroduction: The jaguar (Panthera onca) in the United States as a model

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Reintroduction-defined here as the return of a species to a part of its range where it has been extirpated-is a critical pathway to conservation in the 21st century. As late as the 1960s, jaguars (Panthera onca) inhabited an expansive region in the central mountain ranges of Arizona and New Mexico in the United States, a habitat unique in all of jaguar range. Here, we make the case for reintroduction, building a rhetorical bridge between conservation science and practice. First, we present a rationale rooted in the philosophy of wildlife conservation. Second, we show that the species once occupied this territory and was extirpated by human actions that should no longer pose a threat. Third, we demonstrate that the proposed recovery area provides suitable ecological conditions. Fourth, we discuss how return of the species could be a net benefit to people, explicitly recognizing a diversity of values and concerns.Fifth, we show that reintroduction is practical and feasible over a realistic time horizon. Returning the jaguar to this area will enhance the recovery of an endangered species in the United States, further its range-wide conservation, and restore an essential part of North America's cultural and natural heritage.

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Late Pleistocene and Holocene Bison of the Colorado Plateau

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Isotopic Evidence for Long-Distance Connections of the AD Thirteenth-Century Promontory Caves Occupants

Isotopic Evidence for Long-Distance Connections of the AD Thirteenth-Century Promontory Caves Occupants

Vulnerability assessment of the multi‐sector North American bison Bison bison management system to climate change

The case for reintroduction: The jaguar (Panthera onca) in the United States as a model

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