Wolverton
Biographic Data
| ID | 13929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolverton |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolverton |
| SIGNATURE | WOLVERTON |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9143-7149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 341 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Hunting and Faunal Consumption Among Herders of Northwestern Patagonia: A Zooarchaeological Perspective
This article examines the dietary patterns of herders in central-western Argentina, known as puesteros (local herders). We investigate how changes in land use, urbanization, and hunting restrictions have affected traditional puestero herding practices and the contributions of wild and domesticated animals to their diets. The study focuses on two research questions: (1) Has the growth of urban economies and transportation infrastructure in central…
Ancient DNA reveals population trends of Lesser Rhea ( Rhea pennata ) in Northwestern Patagonia
The Lesser Rhea ( Rhea pennata ), a large flightless bird native to South America, held historical significance as a vital resource for Patagonian hunter–gatherer societies. Despite the species' cultural and ecological importance, the historical population dynamics of R. pennata remain poorly understood. Although present in the archaeological record, its abundance is not consistently documented and the reasons remain unclear. This study investiga…
Dietary change of North Patagonian guanacos: A historical ecology perspective through the study of stable isotopes
This paper presents the results of a study on the isotopic ecology of guanacos in central western Argentina. We examine the historical population ecology of guanacos using stable isotope analysis of bone collagen from pre-Hispanic and modern guanaco populations ( n = 129), considering variability in two ecoregions: the Monte hot desert and the Andean-Patagonian cold desert. Our study addresses the consistency of guanaco diets over time, evaluatin…
Integrating Historical Ecology and Environmental Justice
Environmental justice studies (EJS) provides a framework for interdisciplinary research and advocacy in the realm of cultural heritage research and management. Ethnobiologists, in particular those who focus on environmental archaeology, are no strangers to the heritage arena as our scholarship commonly concerns “cultural keystone places,” which are rich with meaning for one or more groups of people. Three dimensions and three core concepts of EJS…
Paleoconectividad Entre Poblaciones De Guanacos Del Noroeste De La Patagonia: Un Estudio De Adn Antiguo
La presin de caza por parte de los humanos afect la poblacin de guanacos en el noroeste de la Patagonia durante el Holoceno Tardo. Un reciente estudio de ADN antiguo demuestra la disminucin en el tamao de la poblacin de guanacos durante los ltimos 2000 aos AP, que es el resultado de la depresin de los recursos. En este artculo, examinamos la estructura gentica de la poblacin de guanacos durante los ltimos 2000 aos AP con ms detalle. Se analizan 2…
Ethnobiology Phase VI: Decolonizing Institutions, Projects, and Scholarship
Ethnobiology, like many fields, was shaped by early Western imperial efforts to colonize people and lands around the world and extract natural resources. Those legacies and practices persist today and continue to influence the institutions ethnobiologists are a part of, how they carry out research, and their personal beliefs and actions. Various authors have previously outlined five overlapping “phases” of ethnobiology. Here, we argue that ethnob…
Sustainable harvest or resource depression? Using ancient DNA to study the population dynamics of guanaco in western Argentina during the Holocene
Human Mollusk Interactions in a Changing World
Analysis of ancient DNA from South American rhea bones: Implications for zooarchaeology and biogeography
Animal Resource Use Related to Socioenvironmental Change among Mesa Verde Farmers
Article is a case study of Mesa Verde subsistence utilizing optimal foraging theory models from evolutionary ecology to study small animal resource use during the Pueblo II to Terminal Pueblo III periods
Reflecting on Ethnobiology from 1978 to 2018: A Dedication to Steve Weber
Taphonomy and negative results: An integrated approach to ceramic-bound protein residue analysis
Archaeology as Ethnobiology
Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region
Multiple cultural identities converge in Mesa Verde archaeology. Archaeologists have engaged research questions for the last half century, leading to cultural reconstructive summaries about how Pueblo people lived prior to migrating out of the Mesa Verde region. The importance of this narrative centers on the identity of the researcher as an archaeologist. An increasingly recognized narrative among archaeologists is that of Pueblo identity, in wh…
Practical Significance: Ordinal Scale Data and Effect Size in Zooarchaeology
Quantitative analysis of zooarchaeological taxonomic abundances and skeletal part frequencies often relies on parametric techniques to test hypotheses. Data upon which such analyses are based are considered by some to be 'ordinal scale at best', meaning that non-parametric approaches may be better suited for addressing hypotheses. An important consideration is that archaeologists do not directly or randomly sample target populations of artefacts …
Patch Choice, Landscape Ecology, and Foraging Efficiency: The Zooarchaeology of Late Holocene Foragers in Western Argentina
Different but complementary foraging adaptations existed in the Payunia volcanic and the Andean highland (or mountain) subregions of southern Mendoza, Argentina during the late Holocene. We employ an evolutionary ecological perspective to study the zooarchaeology of foraging adaptations after 4000 BP. Seasonal exploitation of guanaco ( Lama guanicoe Müller) in the mountains appears to have been sustainable, which relates to high productivity of m…
Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis
Identification of protein residues from prehistoric cooking pottery using mass spectrometry is challenging because proteins are removed from original tissues, are degraded from cooking, may be poorly preserved due to diagenesis, and occur in a palimpsest of exogenous soil proteins. In contrast, bone proteins are abundant and well preserved. This research is part of a larger method-development project for innovation and improvement of liquid chrom…
Snapshots of Digital Scholarship in Zooarchaeology: Introduction to the Special Issue
Special Issue on Digital Zooarchaeologysharing landscape include approaches to data access, aggregation, and preservation (e.g., DINAA 1 , tDAR 2 , ADS 3 , CARD 4 , SPARC 5 ); and refinements in the application of digital methods (geometric morphometrics, 3D modeling, GIS).Many parallel initiatives undoubtedly exist in ethnobiology often on more localized community focused scales.This special issue features the work of a diverse group of research…
Ethnobiology, Political Ecology, and Conservation
Ethnobiology is increasingly recognized from within and outside of its boundaries as interdisciplinary. The Society of Ethnobiology defines the field as “the scientific study of dynamic relationships among peoples, biota, and environments.” Ethnobiologists are able to skillfully assess challenges of biocultural conservation across the divides of political ecology. They are situated to mediate between conservation programs that target biodiversity…
Geographic scale and zooarchaeological analysis of Late Holocene foraging adaptations in western Argentina
Climate Change and Ethnobiology
The literature on climate change has grown immensely during the last several decades, ranging from physical science to social science and the arts and humanities (e.g., see the journal Climate Change and recent special issues of the journals Anthropocene and Ecology and Society). It is unequivocal among scholars from many backgrounds that anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems contribute to global warming and climate change (IPCC 2013). The effects …
Ethnobiology 5: Interdisciplinarity in an Era of Rapid Environmental Change
Ethnobiology 5 stems from Eugene Hunn’s four phases of the history of ethnobiology and focuses on the relevance of ethnobiological research in the context of environmental and cultural change. It refers to a contemporary phase of the field’s historical development. In this paper, I argue that ethnobiology is preadapted to be a scholarly umbrella for a number of disciplines that concern human-environment interactions, suggesting that one goal of E…
Data Quality in Zooarchaeological Faunal Identification
An Optimized Approach for Protein Residue Extraction and Identification from Ceramics After Cooking
On Behavioral Depression in White-tailed Deer
Ethnobiology 5: Interdisciplinarity in an Era of Rapid Environmental Change
Ethnobiology 5 stems from Eugene Hunn’s four phases of the history of ethnobiology and focuses on the relevance of ethnobiological research in the context of environmental and cultural change. It refers to a contemporary phase of the field’s historical development. In this paper, I argue that ethnobiology is preadapted to be a scholarly umbrella for a number of disciplines that concern human-environment interactions, suggesting that one goal of E…
Data Quality in Zooarchaeological Faunal Identification
Nisp: Mne and %Whole in Analysis of Prehistoric Carcass Exploitation
Several analytical problems with the use of utility curves in archaeofaunal analysis have arisen since Lewis Binford first introduced them in 1978. First, do utility curves actually reflect which parts of an animal carcass were chosen or preferred by prehistoric hunters, or do the curves represent transport choices of hunters (what they could carry)? Second, differential preservation of elements mediated by bone density also contributes to what b…
Harvest Pressure and Environmental Carrying Capacity: An Ordinal-Scale Model of Effects on Ungulate Prey
Zooarchaeologists have long realized the analytical potential of ungulate mortality data in studies of temporally shifting foraging efficiency. An additional but seldom examined form of evidence from ungulate remains is the morphometry of age-independent body size. Together simple bivariate morphometric and mortality data from ungulate remains reveal shifts through time in harvest pressure and/or environmental carrying capacity. A proposed model …
Geographic scale and zooarchaeological analysis of Late Holocene foraging adaptations in western Argentina
White-tailed deer harvest pressure & within-bone nutrient exploitation during the mid- to late Holocene in southeast Texas
Human population size and density increased in many areas of eastern North America after the mid-Holocene. As predators, human foragers relied heavily on ungulate prey for food in many areas of the world during prehistory. In southeast Texas, changes in foraging adaptations relate to broader subsistence and population trends. Analysis of a large, well-preserved archaeological faunal assemblage that spans much of the second half of the Holocene fr…
The Effects of the Hypsithermal on Prehistoric Foraging Efficiency in Missouri
Archaeological studies of temporal changes in human predation strategy using foraging theory tend to focus on the role of overexploitation of important prey resources and resulting resource depression. An alternative use of the prey-choice model framed under foraging theory is to investigate the influence of environmental changes, such as increases in climate stress, on prey availability. Environmental change can be expected to produce many of th…
On Behavioral Depression in White-tailed Deer
A conceptual model for freshwater mussel (family: (Unionidae) remain preservation in zooarchaeological assemblages
Seriation, Superposition, and Interdigitation: A History of Americanist Graphic Depictions of Culture Change
Histories of Americanist archaeology regularly confuse frequency seriation with a technique for measuring the passage of time based on superposition-percentage stratigraphy-and fail to mention interdigitation as an important component of some percentage-stratigraphic studies. Frequency seriation involves the arrangement of collections so that each artifact type displays a unimodal frequency distribution, but the direction of time's flow must be d…
Practical Significance: Ordinal Scale Data and Effect Size in Zooarchaeology
Quantitative analysis of zooarchaeological taxonomic abundances and skeletal part frequencies often relies on parametric techniques to test hypotheses. Data upon which such analyses are based are considered by some to be 'ordinal scale at best', meaning that non-parametric approaches may be better suited for addressing hypotheses. An important consideration is that archaeologists do not directly or randomly sample target populations of artefacts …
Climate Change and Ethnobiology
The literature on climate change has grown immensely during the last several decades, ranging from physical science to social science and the arts and humanities (e.g., see the journal Climate Change and recent special issues of the journals Anthropocene and Ecology and Society). It is unequivocal among scholars from many backgrounds that anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems contribute to global warming and climate change (IPCC 2013). The effects …
Natural-trap ursid mortality and the Kurtén Response
Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region
Multiple cultural identities converge in Mesa Verde archaeology. Archaeologists have engaged research questions for the last half century, leading to cultural reconstructive summaries about how Pueblo people lived prior to migrating out of the Mesa Verde region. The importance of this narrative centers on the identity of the researcher as an archaeologist. An increasingly recognized narrative among archaeologists is that of Pueblo identity, in wh…
A biometric technique for assessing prehistoric freshwater mussel population dynamics (family: (Unionidae) in north Texas
Immanence and Configuration in Analogical Reasoning
The role of analogical reasoning has been extensively discussed by American archaeologists. Geologists and evolutionary biologists suggest two kinds of analogy are necessary in historical science. The distinction between immanent and configurational properties and processes in these affinal disciplines clarifies the role of analogical reasoning in archaeology. Examples of archaeological analogies reveals conflation of the two kinds of processes a…
Animal Resource Use Related to Socioenvironmental Change among Mesa Verde Farmers
Article is a case study of Mesa Verde subsistence utilizing optimal foraging theory models from evolutionary ecology to study small animal resource use during the Pueblo II to Terminal Pueblo III periods
Sustainable harvest or resource depression? Using ancient DNA to study the population dynamics of guanaco in western Argentina during the Holocene
Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis
Identification of protein residues from prehistoric cooking pottery using mass spectrometry is challenging because proteins are removed from original tissues, are degraded from cooking, may be poorly preserved due to diagenesis, and occur in a palimpsest of exogenous soil proteins. In contrast, bone proteins are abundant and well preserved. This research is part of a larger method-development project for innovation and improvement of liquid chrom…
An Optimized Approach for Protein Residue Extraction and Identification from Ceramics After Cooking
Analysis of ancient DNA from South American rhea bones: Implications for zooarchaeology and biogeography
Taphonomy and negative results: An integrated approach to ceramic-bound protein residue analysis
Snapshots of Digital Scholarship in Zooarchaeology: Introduction to the Special Issue
Special Issue on Digital Zooarchaeologysharing landscape include approaches to data access, aggregation, and preservation (e.g., DINAA 1 , tDAR 2 , ADS 3 , CARD 4 , SPARC 5 ); and refinements in the application of digital methods (geometric morphometrics, 3D modeling, GIS).Many parallel initiatives undoubtedly exist in ethnobiology often on more localized community focused scales.This special issue features the work of a diverse group of research…
Quantitative Paleozoology
Review of Quantitative Paleozoology. R. Lee Lyman. 2008. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Pp. 348, black-and-white illustrations. $29.34 (paper). ISBN 9780521715362
Dietary change of North Patagonian guanacos: A historical ecology perspective through the study of stable isotopes
This paper presents the results of a study on the isotopic ecology of guanacos in central western Argentina. We examine the historical population ecology of guanacos using stable isotope analysis of bone collagen from pre-Hispanic and modern guanaco populations ( n = 129), considering variability in two ecoregions: the Monte hot desert and the Andean-Patagonian cold desert. Our study addresses the consistency of guanaco diets over time, evaluatin…
Measuring Late Quaternary Ursid Diminution in the Midwest
Paleobiologists generally agree that within the past 10,000 yr North American black bears ( Ursus americanus ) have decreased in body and tooth size. Some researchers infer that diminution was gradual and continuous; thus, one might infer that a specimen is old if it is larger than an average-size modern bear. Ursid remains recovered in the 1950s from Lawson Cave, Missouri, that are larger than some modern bears have been reported to date to the …
Seriation, Superposition, and Interdigitation: A History of Americanist Graphic Depictions of Culture Change
Histories of Americanist archaeology regularly confuse frequency seriation with a technique for measuring the passage of time based on superposition-percentage stratigraphy-and fail to mention interdigitation as an important component of some percentage-stratigraphic studies. Frequency seriation involves the arrangement of collections so that each artifact type displays a unimodal frequency distribution, but the direction of time's flow must be d…
Immanence and Configuration in Analogical Reasoning
The role of analogical reasoning has been extensively discussed by American archaeologists. Geologists and evolutionary biologists suggest two kinds of analogy are necessary in historical science. The distinction between immanent and configurational properties and processes in these affinal disciplines clarifies the role of analogical reasoning in archaeology. Examples of archaeological analogies reveals conflation of the two kinds of processes a…
Zooarchaeological Evidence of Prairie Taxa in Central Missouri during the Mid-Holocene
Previous studies report that remains of prairie taxa are common in western Missouri archaeological sites. There is no reported evidence of prairie taxa, such as Bos bison , from sites within the northern Ozark Highlands of Missouri. New data indicate that prairie taxa inhabited the area during the warm and dry mid-Holocene (8500–5000 14 C yr B.P.). Evidence suggests prairie taxa were farther east and south than previously documented in central Mi…
Nisp: Mne and %Whole in Analysis of Prehistoric Carcass Exploitation
Several analytical problems with the use of utility curves in archaeofaunal analysis have arisen since Lewis Binford first introduced them in 1978. First, do utility curves actually reflect which parts of an animal carcass were chosen or preferred by prehistoric hunters, or do the curves represent transport choices of hunters (what they could carry)? Second, differential preservation of elements mediated by bone density also contributes to what b…
The rise and fall of culture history
Myrtle McGraw was a creative developmental scientist of the 1930s and 1940s whose work we now are beginning to fully appreciate.She had been a teenager in Alabama when she began writing to John Dewey, already a world-class philosopher, in 1914.McGraw and Dewey struck up a father -daughter friendship that persisted while she went to Ohio Wesleyan and subsequently to Columbia University for her Ph.D. in 1931.For the next 20 years, McGraw directed t…
The Effects of the Hypsithermal on Prehistoric Foraging Efficiency in Missouri
Archaeological studies of temporal changes in human predation strategy using foraging theory tend to focus on the role of overexploitation of important prey resources and resulting resource depression. An alternative use of the prey-choice model framed under foraging theory is to investigate the influence of environmental changes, such as increases in climate stress, on prey availability. Environmental change can be expected to produce many of th…
Natural-trap ursid mortality and the Kurtén Response
White-tailed deer harvest pressure & within-bone nutrient exploitation during the mid- to late Holocene in southeast Texas
Human population size and density increased in many areas of eastern North America after the mid-Holocene. As predators, human foragers relied heavily on ungulate prey for food in many areas of the world during prehistory. In southeast Texas, changes in foraging adaptations relate to broader subsistence and population trends. Analysis of a large, well-preserved archaeological faunal assemblage that spans much of the second half of the Holocene fr…
A biometric technique for assessing prehistoric freshwater mussel population dynamics (family: (Unionidae) in north Texas
Harvest Pressure and Environmental Carrying Capacity: An Ordinal-Scale Model of Effects on Ungulate Prey
Zooarchaeologists have long realized the analytical potential of ungulate mortality data in studies of temporally shifting foraging efficiency. An additional but seldom examined form of evidence from ungulate remains is the morphometry of age-independent body size. Together simple bivariate morphometric and mortality data from ungulate remains reveal shifts through time in harvest pressure and/or environmental carrying capacity. A proposed model …
The Terminal Pleistocene Extinctions in North America, Hypermorphic Evolution, and the Dynamic Equilibrium Model
The cause of megafaunal extinctions at the end of the last glaciation has been hotly debated during the last few decades, most recently at the global scale. In North America and elsewhere the debate centers on whether or not human hunters, who seemingly first entered the continent during the extinction period, caused the extinctions through over-hunting. An alternative explanation is that climate change during the terminal Pleistocene radically m…
A conceptual model for freshwater mussel (family: (Unionidae) remain preservation in zooarchaeological assemblages
The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World
Review of The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World. Eugene N. Anderson. 2010. Praeger Publishers, Santa Barbara. Pp. 251. $44.95 (Hardcover). ISBN 0313381305
Quantitative Paleozoology
Review of Quantitative Paleozoology. R. Lee Lyman. 2008. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Pp. 348, black-and-white illustrations. $29.34 (paper). ISBN 9780521715362
Introducing Ethnobiology Letters
An Optimized Approach for Protein Residue Extraction and Identification from Ceramics After Cooking
On Behavioral Depression in White-tailed Deer
Data Quality in Zooarchaeological Faunal Identification
Ethnobiology 5: Interdisciplinarity in an Era of Rapid Environmental Change
Ethnobiology 5 stems from Eugene Hunn’s four phases of the history of ethnobiology and focuses on the relevance of ethnobiological research in the context of environmental and cultural change. It refers to a contemporary phase of the field’s historical development. In this paper, I argue that ethnobiology is preadapted to be a scholarly umbrella for a number of disciplines that concern human-environment interactions, suggesting that one goal of E…
Ethnobiology, Political Ecology, and Conservation
Ethnobiology is increasingly recognized from within and outside of its boundaries as interdisciplinary. The Society of Ethnobiology defines the field as “the scientific study of dynamic relationships among peoples, biota, and environments.” Ethnobiologists are able to skillfully assess challenges of biocultural conservation across the divides of political ecology. They are situated to mediate between conservation programs that target biodiversity…
Geographic scale and zooarchaeological analysis of Late Holocene foraging adaptations in western Argentina
Climate Change and Ethnobiology
The literature on climate change has grown immensely during the last several decades, ranging from physical science to social science and the arts and humanities (e.g., see the journal Climate Change and recent special issues of the journals Anthropocene and Ecology and Society). It is unequivocal among scholars from many backgrounds that anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems contribute to global warming and climate change (IPCC 2013). The effects …
Patch Choice, Landscape Ecology, and Foraging Efficiency: The Zooarchaeology of Late Holocene Foragers in Western Argentina
Different but complementary foraging adaptations existed in the Payunia volcanic and the Andean highland (or mountain) subregions of southern Mendoza, Argentina during the late Holocene. We employ an evolutionary ecological perspective to study the zooarchaeology of foraging adaptations after 4000 BP. Seasonal exploitation of guanaco ( Lama guanicoe Müller) in the mountains appears to have been sustainable, which relates to high productivity of m…
Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis
Identification of protein residues from prehistoric cooking pottery using mass spectrometry is challenging because proteins are removed from original tissues, are degraded from cooking, may be poorly preserved due to diagenesis, and occur in a palimpsest of exogenous soil proteins. In contrast, bone proteins are abundant and well preserved. This research is part of a larger method-development project for innovation and improvement of liquid chrom…
Geography (32 works) · Archaeology (27 works) · Biology (25 works) · Ecology (23 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (18 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 works) · Anthropology (12 works) · Zooarchaeology (10 works)