P W Stahl
Biographic Data
| ID | 16378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P W Stahl |
| GIVEN NAMES | P W |
| FAMILY NAME | Stahl |
| SIGNATURE | STAHL P W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2267-1676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 569 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
When the Archaeologists Leave: Legacies and Services of the Historical Ecology of the Galápagos Islands Project
The Hacienda El Progreso functioned as an important Ecuadorian agro-industrial enterprise in the late nineteenth century. Operating out of San Cristóbal Island in the Galápagos archipelago, the plantation exported refined sugar, coffee, cattle products, and other goods to national and international markets. From its beginnings in the 1860s, the plantation established the first permanent human settlement on the island, and long after its demise in…
Ancient DNA confirms crossbreeding of domestic South American camelids in two pre-conquest archaeological sites
Vertebrate Taphonomy in Archaeological Research
Garden Hunting
Historical Ecology and Environmental Archaeology
Historical ecology and archaeology in theory and practice
Although historical ecology has become a highly popular framework for contemporary archaeological research, archaeologists have always, in some form or another, been engaged with its study. Historical ecology and archaeology are inseparable; the techniques and methods of the latter are essential for accessing the deep time of human-environmental relationships, while interest in the former is implicated, whether explicitly or not, in all empirical…
Old dogs and new tricks: Recent developments in our understanding of the human–dog relationship
The reemergence of cognitive studies in comparative psychology and ethology, coupled with ongoing archaeological discoveries and recent advances in genomics, have contributed to the current explosion of scientific interest in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris). The long and complex evolution of a human-dog relationship is explored from the differing perspectives of ethology, cognitive sciences, evolutionary anthropology, archaeology, and paleoanthropo…
Interpreting interfluvial landscape transformations in the pre-Columbian Amazon
Despite evidence for the protracted presence of humans in the Amazon Basin, its vast interfluvial habitats are frequently depicted as having survived until recently as 'wild' landscapes with neither human settlement nor substantial human land use. Related research interests of paleoecology and archaeology share parallel histories in the development of explanatory paradigms for understanding processes contributing to neotropical ecology, as both e…
Early Dogs and Endemic South American Canids of the Spanish Main
Although common and widespread today throughout the neotropical lowlands, the domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) may have been a relatively recent introduction into certain areas. Numerous early documents, however, implicate the precolumbian presence of tamed endemic South American canids, at least in lowland areas of northern South America and the adjacent Caribbean. These early and limited descriptions of small dogs that did not bark were ev…
Rethinking dog domestication by integrating genetics, archeology, and biogeography
The dog was the first domesticated animal but it remains uncertain when the domestication process began and whether it occurred just once or multiple times across the Northern Hemisphere. To ascertain the value of modern genetic data to elucidate the origins of dog domestication, we analyzed 49,024 autosomal SNPs in 1,375 dogs (representing 35 breeds) and 19 wolves. After combining our data with previously published data, we contrasted the geneti…
Interactions Between Humans and Endemic Canids in Holocene South America
Humans inhabiting South America during early portions of the Holocene variably interacted with native foxes (Family Canidae) in different parts of the continent at a time when there is little firm evidence for the presence of domesticated dogs (Canis familiaris). Preserved specimens of native fox tend to be ubiquitous in early archaeological contexts for which we have associated archaeofaunal samples. In a few cases these include association with…
Media Review: Nukak. Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People, by Gustoavo G. Politis
The contributions of zooarchaeology to historical ecology in the neotropics
Early prehistoric sedentism and seasonal animal exploitation in the Caribbean lowlands of Colombia
An exploratory osteological study of the muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) (Aves: (Anatidae) with implications for neotropical archaeology
Post-burial fragmentation of microvertebrate skeletons
Ivory production & consumption in Ghana in the early second millennium AD
In the eighteenth to nineteenth century West Africa was the scene of the infamous Atlantic trade in ivory and slaves. The authors' researches show a different situation in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, when the people of Ghana were engaged in the indigenous procurement, manufacture and trade in ivory with neighbours across the Sahara
Pre-Columbian South America
Chorrera
La Puná
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
Valdivia
Real Alto
Archaeology in Latin America
Book review of Archaeology in Latin America. Gustavo G. Politis and Benjamin Alberti, editors. London: Routledge, 1999. xiv + 286 pp., figures, tables, index. ISBN 0-415-22158-7
Pre-Columbian Andean animal domesticates at the edge of empire
Native South American animal domesticates appear in the northern Andes well before the area was occupied by the Incan and, later, Spanish empires. They include camelids and cuy (guinea pig), both of which are allochthonous to the northern Andes, and muscovy duck. Throughout Ecuador, pertinent skeletal specimens at various sites in contexts antedating the first millennium AD tend to be rare, are often associated with specific non-utilitarian conte…
The recovery and interpretation of microvertebrate bone assemblages from archaeological contexts
Structural Density Assays of Leporid Skeletal Elements with Implications for Taphonomic, Actualistic and Archaeological Research
Structural Density of Domesticated South American Camelid Skeletal Elements and the Archaeological Investigation of Prehistoric Andean Ch'arki
On Small Mammal Remains in Archaeological Context
Analysis of the dissected remains of certain small mammals suggests a consistently high ratio of edible meat to live weight. These figures, together with the great abundance of small mammals in natural and culturally modified settings, are combined to support the argument that they may have been important elements in prehistoric diet. Their dietary status may be consistently underestimated because of a number of biases
Holocene Biodiversity: An Archaeological Perspective from the Americas
Any understanding of contemporary biodiversity change in the Americas is likely to be uninformative and misleading if it employs a prehistoric baseline imbued with pristine characteristics. Archaeological evidence clearly displays a protracted history of environmental transformations at varying geographical and temporal scales throughout the Holocene (that is, the past 10,000 years). Because of problems inherent to the interpretation of the archa…
Differential Bone-Refuse Accumulation in Food-Preparation and Traffic Areas on an Early Ecuadorian House Floor
Ethnographic observations of floor formation in an occupied and an abandoned Achuarjeadwelling structure are combined with contemporary taphonomic studies of swept and trampled surfaces. These studies suggest that refuse accumulation and incorporation are markedly different in food-preparation areas with ash deposits around fixed hearth features when compared to regularly trampled traffic areas of domestic earthen house floors. These points are e…
Interpreting interfluvial landscape transformations in the pre-Columbian Amazon
Despite evidence for the protracted presence of humans in the Amazon Basin, its vast interfluvial habitats are frequently depicted as having survived until recently as 'wild' landscapes with neither human settlement nor substantial human land use. Related research interests of paleoecology and archaeology share parallel histories in the development of explanatory paradigms for understanding processes contributing to neotropical ecology, as both e…
Early prehistoric sedentism and seasonal animal exploitation in the Caribbean lowlands of Colombia
Pre-Columbian Andean animal domesticates at the edge of empire
Native South American animal domesticates appear in the northern Andes well before the area was occupied by the Incan and, later, Spanish empires. They include camelids and cuy (guinea pig), both of which are allochthonous to the northern Andes, and muscovy duck. Throughout Ecuador, pertinent skeletal specimens at various sites in contexts antedating the first millennium AD tend to be rare, are often associated with specific non-utilitarian conte…
Archaeology in the Lowland American Tropics: Current Analytical Methods and Recent Applications
Human digestive effects on a micromammalian skeleton
Hallucinatory imagery and the origin of early South American figurine art
Hallucination is associated with a set of universal and redundant sensory phenomena which often include the appearance of anthropomorphic images. These are especially apparent through drug intoxication, a technique used by native shamans of tropical lowland South America to achieve ecstatic communion with spirits. The paper presents evidence for the ritual use of figurines as repositories for ecstatically contacted spirits. It is suggested that c…
Prehistoric camelids in the lowlands of Western Ecuador
Ivory production & consumption in Ghana in the early second millennium AD
In the eighteenth to nineteenth century West Africa was the scene of the infamous Atlantic trade in ivory and slaves. The authors' researches show a different situation in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, when the people of Ghana were engaged in the indigenous procurement, manufacture and trade in ivory with neighbours across the Sahara
The Persistence of Prehispanic Chiefdoms on the Rio Daule, Coastal Ecuador
Early Dogs and Endemic South American Canids of the Spanish Main
Although common and widespread today throughout the neotropical lowlands, the domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) may have been a relatively recent introduction into certain areas. Numerous early documents, however, implicate the precolumbian presence of tamed endemic South American canids, at least in lowland areas of northern South America and the adjacent Caribbean. These early and limited descriptions of small dogs that did not bark were ev…
Arid landscapes and environmental transformations in ancient Southwestern Ecuador
The Valdivia valley of southwestern Ecuador is currently an ecotonal area between both northerly and interior humid environments, and southerly and coastal arid environments. Inferences drawn from a sample of archaeologically recovered vertebrate taxa in Early Formative context (3000 BC to 2400 BC) at the site of Loma Alta (OGSEMa‐182), suggest the availability of widely variable habitats, ranging from arid and open, to humid and forested conditi…
Cautionary Note on Edible Meat Poundage Figures
Dissection of certain animal specimens indicated that meat poundage figures based on modern processing practices could be unreliably high
The contributions of zooarchaeology to historical ecology in the neotropics
An exploratory osteological study of the muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) (Aves: (Anatidae) with implications for neotropical archaeology
Post-burial fragmentation of microvertebrate skeletons
Precolumbian Animal Domesticates from Salango, Ecuador
Two prehispanic South American animal domesticates, the cavyCavia porcellusand muscovy duckCairina moschata, are identified from the later prehistoric occupations of Salango, Manabi province, Ecuador. Possible implications, raised by their presence in an area that is known to have participated in an ancient and widespread trade network, are briefly discussed
A High Elevation Zooarchaeological Assemblage from the Northern Andes of Ecuador
The largest vertebrate zooarchaeological assemblage yet recorded in the northern Andean highlands-almost 40,000 specimens-was recovered during excavations at the La Chimba site, Pichincha Province, Ecuador. This 700 B.C. to A.C. 250 assemblage is rich in specimens from animal taxa characteristic of high elevation páramo grassland environments, and is unevenly dominated by specimens of rabbit and deer. Entire skeletons of both taxa were likely bro…
Ancient DNA confirms crossbreeding of domestic South American camelids in two pre-conquest archaeological sites
Archaeology in Latin America
Book review of Archaeology in Latin America. Gustavo G. Politis and Benjamin Alberti, editors. London: Routledge, 1999. xiv + 286 pp., figures, tables, index. ISBN 0-415-22158-7
Cautionary Note on Edible Meat Poundage Figures
Dissection of certain animal specimens indicated that meat poundage figures based on modern processing practices could be unreliably high
On Small Mammal Remains in Archaeological Context
Analysis of the dissected remains of certain small mammals suggests a consistently high ratio of edible meat to live weight. These figures, together with the great abundance of small mammals in natural and culturally modified settings, are combined to support the argument that they may have been important elements in prehistoric diet. Their dietary status may be consistently underestimated because of a number of biases
On Climate and Occupation of the Santa Elena Peninsula: Implications of Documents for Andean Prehistory
The Hallucinogenic Basis of Early Valdivia Phase Ceramic Bowl Iconography
Hallucinatory imagery and the origin of early South American figurine art
Hallucination is associated with a set of universal and redundant sensory phenomena which often include the appearance of anthropomorphic images. These are especially apparent through drug intoxication, a technique used by native shamans of tropical lowland South America to achieve ecstatic communion with spirits. The paper presents evidence for the ritual use of figurines as repositories for ecstatically contacted spirits. It is suggested that c…
Precolumbian Animal Domesticates from Salango, Ecuador
Two prehispanic South American animal domesticates, the cavyCavia porcellusand muscovy duckCairina moschata, are identified from the later prehistoric occupations of Salango, Manabi province, Ecuador. Possible implications, raised by their presence in an area that is known to have participated in an ancient and widespread trade network, are briefly discussed
Prehistoric camelids in the lowlands of Western Ecuador
Identification of Hallucinatory Themes in the Late Neolithic Art of Hungary
A number of factors that coalesced in the Venus figurines of the Late Neolithic culture from Hungary have been identified with dominant hallucinatory themes, suggesting the crucial role of ecstatic religion in this culture. This article provides a review of the nature and role of hallucinogens in the ecstatic religion of contemporary and historical cultures in order to establish a background for analysis. Analysis of these Late Neolithic artifact…
Differential Bone-Refuse Accumulation in Food-Preparation and Traffic Areas on an Early Ecuadorian House Floor
Ethnographic observations of floor formation in an occupied and an abandoned Achuarjeadwelling structure are combined with contemporary taphonomic studies of swept and trampled surfaces. These studies suggest that refuse accumulation and incorporation are markedly different in food-preparation areas with ash deposits around fixed hearth features when compared to regularly trampled traffic areas of domestic earthen house floors. These points are e…
News and Short Contributions
Petrographic and petrological techniques have been used to examine Neolithic plaster products from several sites in northern Israel. Referring to former studies, the value of different analytical methods for the examination of ancient plasters and mortars is considered. The new data, achieved by the relatively simple method ofpetrographic examination, reveal a different interpretation ofNeolithic craft specialization and cultural interchange. The…
Arid landscapes and environmental transformations in ancient Southwestern Ecuador
The Valdivia valley of southwestern Ecuador is currently an ecotonal area between both northerly and interior humid environments, and southerly and coastal arid environments. Inferences drawn from a sample of archaeologically recovered vertebrate taxa in Early Formative context (3000 BC to 2400 BC) at the site of Loma Alta (OGSEMa‐182), suggest the availability of widely variable habitats, ranging from arid and open, to humid and forested conditi…
Differential preservation histories affecting the mammalian zooarchaeological record from the forested neotropical lowlands
Of all the complex and specialized material culture which the Tropical Forest peoples had developed to cope with their difficult environment only a few axe fragments and a vast mass of smashed pottery remain (Lathrap 1970: 63) As one of the foremost practitioners of archaeological research in the forested neotropical lowlands, Donald Lathrap was preoccupied with preservation biases in the buried record. He inspired us to judge the effects of diff…
Human digestive effects on a micromammalian skeleton
The Persistence of Prehispanic Chiefdoms on the Rio Daule, Coastal Ecuador
The recovery and interpretation of microvertebrate bone assemblages from archaeological contexts
Holocene Biodiversity: An Archaeological Perspective from the Americas
Any understanding of contemporary biodiversity change in the Americas is likely to be uninformative and misleading if it employs a prehistoric baseline imbued with pristine characteristics. Archaeological evidence clearly displays a protracted history of environmental transformations at varying geographical and temporal scales throughout the Holocene (that is, the past 10,000 years). Because of problems inherent to the interpretation of the archa…
Archaeology in the Lowland American Tropics: Current Analytical Methods and Recent Applications
Structural Density Assays of Leporid Skeletal Elements with Implications for Taphonomic, Actualistic and Archaeological Research
Structural Density of Domesticated South American Camelid Skeletal Elements and the Archaeological Investigation of Prehistoric Andean Ch'arki
A High Elevation Zooarchaeological Assemblage from the Northern Andes of Ecuador
A High Elevation Zooarchaeological Assemblage from the Northern Andes of Ecuador
The largest vertebrate zooarchaeological assemblage yet recorded in the northern Andean highlands-almost 40,000 specimens-was recovered during excavations at the La Chimba site, Pichincha Province, Ecuador. This 700 B.C. to A.C. 250 assemblage is rich in specimens from animal taxa characteristic of high elevation páramo grassland environments, and is unevenly dominated by specimens of rabbit and deer. Entire skeletons of both taxa were likely bro…
Pre-Columbian South America
Chorrera
La Puná
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
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