D Defrance
Biographic Data
| ID | 45429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Defrance |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Defrance |
| SIGNATURE | DEFRANCE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5548-8953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 515 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Dogs in Tiwanaku Society: Life Histories of Companion Animals from the Moquegua Valley, Peru
We examine the social role of dogs in the Central Andes using dog remains from Middle Horizon (AD 600–1000) Tiwanaku sites in the Moquegua Valley, Peru. We describe dog remains from domestic, cemetery, and temple contexts and provide life histories of two naturally mummified young dogs that Tiwanaku inhabitants intentionally buried in domestic households at the sites of Rio Muerto and Omo. We present morphological and morphometric values for the …
Camélidos Tiahuanaco en La Colonia De Moquegua Al Sur Del Perú: Variaciones De Tamaño Y Morfotipos
Este estudio examina la variabilidad morfomtrica de los camlidos en cuatro sitios del Valle de Moquegua, Per, una regin donde la Cultura Tiahuanaco (ca.600-1000 E.C.) estableci una gran colonia
Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
Contextual, Taphonomic, and Paleoecological Insights from Anurans on Tiwanaku Sites in Southern Peru
We examine the processes that resulted in the deposition of bones of at least three anuran genera on four archaeological sites associated with the Tiwanaku culture occupied between 700–1100 CE in the Moquegua Valley of far southern Peru. We review archaeological data and ethnographic accounts of Andean peoples using frogs and toads for food and in rain-quest rituals. Anuran bones are common in prehispanic cemeteries, but far less common in habita…
Coastal paleolandscapes of far southern Peru: Implications for Late Pleistocene human settlement
Archaeological evidence indicates that initial coastal settlement of western South America took place near the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) when sea level was between 40 and 100 m lower than today. Beginning around 15,000 cal BP, and for roughly the next 8,000 years, sea levels rose, eventually covering these formerly exposed and potentially human-occupied landscapes. We use bathymetric data and the reconstructed global mean sea level cu…
Collagen fingerprinting of Caribbean archaeological fish bones: Methodological implications for historical fisheries baselines and anthropogenic change
Fishing specialization and the inland trade of the Chilean jack mackerel or jurel, Trachurus murphyi, in far southern Peru
Guinea Pigs in the Spanish Colonial Andes: Culinary and Ritual Transformations
Spanish Colonial Networks of Production: Earthenware Storage Vessels from The Peruvian Wine Industry
The Finny Tribe: How Coastal, Cosmopolitan New Orleans Satisfied an Appetite for Fish
Bahamian hutia ( Geocapromys ingrahami ) in the Lucayan Realm: Pre-Columbian Exploitation and Translocation
Bahamian hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) are endemic to The Bahamas. The skeletal remains of this species have been recovered from multiple Lucayan-associated archaeological sites in the region, suggesting that it was an important source of human food. This study explores the role of pre-Columbian indigenous peoples in the geographic distribution of Bahamian hutias, and the possibility of intentional management of the animal. We provide an overview…
Animal Husbandry and Colonial Adaptive Behavior: Isotopic Insights from the La Belle Shipwreck Fauna
Plotting abandonment: Excavating a ritual deposit at the Wari site of Cerro Baúl
Zacpeten Structure 719: Activities at a Contact Periodpopol Nahbefore Rapid Abandonment
This paper addresses activities carried out in a late-sixteenth or seventeenth century Maya council house (popol nah) just before its abandonment. Structure 719 at the site of Zacpeten in the central Peten lakes district is considered a noble residence remodeled into a council house with an adjacent temple. Excavations revealed quantities of de facto refuse inside the structure's two rooms and around the exterior; recent studies focused on cerami…
Complete mitogenomes of ancient Caribbean Guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus)
The domestic guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) was translocated from South America to several Caribbean islands sometime after 500 CE. Identifying the timing and routes of guinea pig translocation can provide a proxy for human interaction in the region. A recent investigation of aDNA of Caribbean guinea pig remains, based on sequences from short regions of the mitochondrial D-loop and cytochrome B regions, suggested a Colombian origin and single intro…
Droughts, floods, and farming at Quebrada Tacahuay from late prehispanic to colonial times
We describe diachronic evidence of moisture reduction and its consequences for coastal irrigation, agriculture, and settlement at Quebrada Tacahuay, a large drainage south of the Osmore River in far southern Peru. These observations are the first for a drainage of this size and for one with occupation spanning over 12,000 years for southern Peru. Following several millennia of occupation by coastal foragers, farming populations settled the lower …
Origin of pre-Columbian guinea pigs from Caribbean archeological sites revealed through genetic analysis
Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene fishing strategies at Quebrada Jaguay and the Ring Site, southern Perú
Variations in Human Adaptations During the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Quebrada Jaguay (QJ-280) and the Ring Site, Southern Perú
Vertebrate remains from two stratified sites, the Quebrada Jaguay site (QJ-280) and the Ring Site, reveal details about economic strategies practiced between 13,145 and 7500 cal yr BP on the southern coast of Perú. The near absence of terrestrial resources, a broad continuity in economic activities focused on marine resources, and flexibility within the overall strategy, are among the most interesting aspects of these data. Although they reflect …
Conversion and Persistence: Analysis of Faunal Remains from an Early Spanish Colonial Doctrinal Settlement in Highland Peru
Initial Spanish colonization of the Central Andes and efforts to transform indigenous society were highly dependent on local social and geographic conditions. In the Colca Valley of southern Peru, Franciscan friars established a series of doctrinas (settlements for the conversion and doctrinal instruction of the indigenous population) at former Inka imperial outposts during the mid-1540s. The inhabitants of one of thesedoctrinas-the site today kn…
The political economic and culinary roles of marine fish in southern Peru from the Middle Horizon (A.D. 600) through Spanish colonial periods
Flexibility in Southern Peru Coastal Economies: A Vertebrate Perspective on the Terminal Pleistocene/Holocene Transition
Vertebrate collections from Quebradas Tacahuay, Jaguay, de los Burros, and the Ring Site, located on the southern coast of Peru and occupied during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene, indicate that a flexible use of fishes and other marine vertebrates began with the earliest occupations known for the region and continued into the Early Holocene. Terminal Pleistocene collections have lower fish diversity and fishes are from trophic levels…
The Luxury of Variety: Animals and Social Distinction at the Wari site of Cerro Baúl, Southern Peru
Reconstruction of ancestral temple for a fu (Fu Hao), Anyang, Xiaotun 258 12.3.The afterlife of things: charioteer and chariot in Yinxu site-museum chariot display 259 12.4.Chariots of the ancestors: Anyang, Angang steel works 262 FIGURES xiv 12.5.A dog death-attendant with bronze bell on top of tomb chamber, Sipanmo, Anyang 12.6.Lu: inscribed trophy deer skull, and antler arrowhead 12.7.Niu: inscribed oracle-bone, and hairpin 13.1.Locations disc…
Guinea Pigs in the Pre-Columbian West Indies
In archaeology, human-introduced animals provide clues about social interaction and movement of past peoples. Zooarchaeological records in the Caribbean show that pre-Columbian people introduced several South American mammals to different islands. This article examines all reported pre-Columbian zooarchaeological records of domesticated guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) in the Caribbean. Thus far, 218 bone fragments have been identified from 18 sites…
Late Prehispanic Coquina Quarrying and Tomb Construction in Coastal Southern Peru
We document the quarrying and source of coquina stone used in elite tomb construction at two late prehispanic sites in southern Peru. Excavations document tomb construction that includes coquina slabs for chamber walls, doorway lintel stones, and large slabs used to seal tomb openings. At the Inca site of Tacahuay Tambo, we uncovered two massive coquina slabs covering the opening of an extended familial tomb. Smaller coquina blocks were used to c…
Early Agriculture in the Maya Lowlands
Wetland research in northern Belize provides the earliest evidence for development of agriculture in the Maya Lowlands. Pollen data confirm the introduction of maize and manioc before 3000 B.C. Dramatic deforestation, beginning ca. 2500 B.C. and intensifying in wetland environments ca. 1500-1300 B.C., marks an expansion of agriculture, which occurred in the context of a mixed foraging economy. By 1000 B.C. a rise in groundwater levels led farmers…
Zooarchaeology in Complex Societies: Political Economy, Status, and Ideology
Late Paleo-Indian Coastal Foragers: Specialized Extractive Behavior at Quebrada Tacahuay, Peru
Quebrada Tacahuay, located on the south coast of Peru, is one of the oldest expressions of maritime adaptations in the Western Hemisphere. Excavations conducted in 1997 and 1998 indicate that humans focused their activities on the collection and butchering of marine birds, particularly cormorants and boobies, and other marine resources more than 10,290 years ago (uncalibrated radiocarbon years B. P.). In addition to abundant zooarchaeological rem…
Iberian foodways in the Moquegua and Torata Valleys of Southern Peru
Diet and Provisioning in the High Andes: A Spanish Colonial Settlement on the Outskirts of Potosí, Bolivia
Labor, Population Movement, and Food in Sixteenth-Century Ek Balam, Yucatán
Spanish colonization of the Yucatán Peninsula altered traditional patterns of subsistence after Spaniards imposed labor demands and controlled the movement of indigenous Maya. Spaniards established an encomienda and Franciscan visita at Ek Balam in the northern lowlands of the peninsula during the mid-sixteenth century. Complementary forces of doctrina and encomienda fostered the religious, political, and economic subjugation of the Maya. An anal…
Isotopic evidence for Middle Horizon to 16th century camelid herding in the Osmore Valley, Peru
Archaeological and zooarchaeological data indicate that camelid pastoralism was a subsistence and economic mainstay of Middle Horizon and more recent cultures in the Osmore region of southern Peru. However, it is not known whether camelids were primarily herded in highland puna pastures or near lower elevation sites in the middle valley or along the coast. This research examines the elevation of archaeological camelid herding in the Osmore Valley…
Guinea Pigs in the Pre-Columbian West Indies
In archaeology, human-introduced animals provide clues about social interaction and movement of past peoples. Zooarchaeological records in the Caribbean show that pre-Columbian people introduced several South American mammals to different islands. This article examines all reported pre-Columbian zooarchaeological records of domesticated guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) in the Caribbean. Thus far, 218 bone fragments have been identified from 18 sites…
Late Pleistocene marine birds from southern Peru: Distinguishing human capture from El Niño-induced windfall
Plotting abandonment: Excavating a ritual deposit at the Wari site of Cerro Baúl
Conversion and Persistence: Analysis of Faunal Remains from an Early Spanish Colonial Doctrinal Settlement in Highland Peru
Initial Spanish colonization of the Central Andes and efforts to transform indigenous society were highly dependent on local social and geographic conditions. In the Colca Valley of southern Peru, Franciscan friars established a series of doctrinas (settlements for the conversion and doctrinal instruction of the indigenous population) at former Inka imperial outposts during the mid-1540s. The inhabitants of one of thesedoctrinas-the site today kn…
Bahamian hutia ( Geocapromys ingrahami ) in the Lucayan Realm: Pre-Columbian Exploitation and Translocation
Bahamian hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) are endemic to The Bahamas. The skeletal remains of this species have been recovered from multiple Lucayan-associated archaeological sites in the region, suggesting that it was an important source of human food. This study explores the role of pre-Columbian indigenous peoples in the geographic distribution of Bahamian hutias, and the possibility of intentional management of the animal. We provide an overview…
Zacpeten Structure 719: Activities at a Contact Periodpopol Nahbefore Rapid Abandonment
This paper addresses activities carried out in a late-sixteenth or seventeenth century Maya council house (popol nah) just before its abandonment. Structure 719 at the site of Zacpeten in the central Peten lakes district is considered a noble residence remodeled into a council house with an adjacent temple. Excavations revealed quantities of de facto refuse inside the structure's two rooms and around the exterior; recent studies focused on cerami…
The Sixth Toe: The Modern Culinary Role of the Guinea Pig In Southern Peru
In Peru modern perceptions of class, ethnicity, and social identity dictate whether the domesticated guinea pig (cuy) is considered a delicacy or an unpalatable indigenous food item. In the southern Peruvian city of Moquegua the breeding of cuyes, including the occurrence of many polydactyl individuals, the location of restaurants that serve cuy, meal costs, and behavior associated with cuy consumption attest to the animal's value beyond its diet…
Variations in Human Adaptations During the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Quebrada Jaguay (QJ-280) and the Ring Site, Southern Perú
Vertebrate remains from two stratified sites, the Quebrada Jaguay site (QJ-280) and the Ring Site, reveal details about economic strategies practiced between 13,145 and 7500 cal yr BP on the southern coast of Perú. The near absence of terrestrial resources, a broad continuity in economic activities focused on marine resources, and flexibility within the overall strategy, are among the most interesting aspects of these data. Although they reflect …
Documenting 12,000 Years of Coastal Occupation on the Osmore Littoral, Peru
The history of coastal settlement in Peru beginning ca. 12,000 years ago provides insight into maritime adaptations and regional specialization. We document the Late Paleoindian to Archaic occupational history along the Osmore River coastal plain near Ilo with 95 radiocarbon dates from eight sites. Site distribution suggests that settlement shifted linearly along the coast, possibly in relation to the productivity of coastal springs. Marine foods…
Paleopathology and health of native and introduced animals on Southern Peruvian and Bolivian Spanish Colonial sites
Spanish colonial sites in southern Peru and Bolivia contain remains of native camelids and introduced bovids with examples of degenerative paleopathologies that are interpreted as reflecting changes in herd management, animal use and animal health following the Spanish conquest. The archaeological contexts include three Spanish colonial wineries from Moquegua in southern Peru and the nearby colonial village of Torata Alta where indigenous people …
Collagen fingerprinting of Caribbean archaeological fish bones: Methodological implications for historical fisheries baselines and anthropogenic change
Spanish Colonial Networks of Production: Earthenware Storage Vessels from The Peruvian Wine Industry
Animal Husbandry and Colonial Adaptive Behavior: Isotopic Insights from the La Belle Shipwreck Fauna
Fishing specialization and the inland trade of the Chilean jack mackerel or jurel, Trachurus murphyi, in far southern Peru
The Finny Tribe: How Coastal, Cosmopolitan New Orleans Satisfied an Appetite for Fish
Valuing the Archaeological Record of Human Impacts on Caribbean Fisheries. Comment on Julio Baisre's “Setting a Baseline for Caribbean Fisheries”
Origin of pre-Columbian guinea pigs from Caribbean archeological sites revealed through genetic analysis
Flexibility in Southern Peru Coastal Economies: A Vertebrate Perspective on the Terminal Pleistocene/Holocene Transition
Vertebrate collections from Quebradas Tacahuay, Jaguay, de los Burros, and the Ring Site, located on the southern coast of Peru and occupied during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene, indicate that a flexible use of fishes and other marine vertebrates began with the earliest occupations known for the region and continued into the Early Holocene. Terminal Pleistocene collections have lower fish diversity and fishes are from trophic levels…
Iberian foodways in the Moquegua and Torata Valleys of Southern Peru
Early Agriculture in the Maya Lowlands
Wetland research in northern Belize provides the earliest evidence for development of agriculture in the Maya Lowlands. Pollen data confirm the introduction of maize and manioc before 3000 B.C. Dramatic deforestation, beginning ca. 2500 B.C. and intensifying in wetland environments ca. 1500-1300 B.C., marks an expansion of agriculture, which occurred in the context of a mixed foraging economy. By 1000 B.C. a rise in groundwater levels led farmers…
Early Maritime Economy and El Niño Events at Quebrada Tacahuay, Peru
The archaeological site of Quebrada Tacahuay, Peru, dates to 12,700 to 12,500 calibrated years before the present (10,770 to 10,530 carbon-14 years before the present). It contains some of the oldest evidence of maritime-based economic activity in the New World. Recovered materials include a hearth, lithic cutting tools and flakes, and abundant processed marine fauna, primarily seabirds and fish. Sediments below and above the occupation layer wer…
Late Paleo-Indian Coastal Foragers: Specialized Extractive Behavior at Quebrada Tacahuay, Peru
Quebrada Tacahuay, located on the south coast of Peru, is one of the oldest expressions of maritime adaptations in the Western Hemisphere. Excavations conducted in 1997 and 1998 indicate that humans focused their activities on the collection and butchering of marine birds, particularly cormorants and boobies, and other marine resources more than 10,290 years ago (uncalibrated radiocarbon years B. P.). In addition to abundant zooarchaeological rem…
Diet and Provisioning in the High Andes: A Spanish Colonial Settlement on the Outskirts of Potosí, Bolivia
Burning down the brewery: Establishing and evacuating an ancient imperial colony at Cerro Baúl, Peru
Before the Inca reigned, two empires held sway over the central Andes from anno Domini 600 to 1000: the Wari empire to the north ruled much of Peru, and Tiwanaku to the south reigned in Bolivia. Face-to-face contact came when both colonized the Moquegua Valley sierra in southern Peru. The state-sponsored Wari incursion, described here, entailed large-scale agrarian reclamation to sustain the occupation of two hills and the adjacent high mesa of C…
Late Pleistocene marine birds from southern Peru: Distinguishing human capture from El Niño-induced windfall
Prehispanic Social and Cultural Changes at Tibes, Puerto Rico
we present here the initial results of the Proyecto Arqueológico del Centro Ceremonial de Tibes. The aim of the project is to study changes in the social, political, and economic systems at Tibes, the earliest civic and ceremonial center in the Caribbean. Tibes was founded as a village around A.D. 1, and sometime between A.D. 600 and A.D. 900 experienced major changes that eventually resulted in the development of a center with multiple ball cour…
The Sixth Toe: The Modern Culinary Role of the Guinea Pig In Southern Peru
In Peru modern perceptions of class, ethnicity, and social identity dictate whether the domesticated guinea pig (cuy) is considered a delicacy or an unpalatable indigenous food item. In the southern Peruvian city of Moquegua the breeding of cuyes, including the occurrence of many polydactyl individuals, the location of restaurants that serve cuy, meal costs, and behavior associated with cuy consumption attest to the animal's value beyond its diet…
Kasapata and the Archaic Period of the Cuzco Valley
Labor, Population Movement, and Food in Sixteenth-Century Ek Balam, Yucatán
Spanish colonization of the Yucatán Peninsula altered traditional patterns of subsistence after Spaniards imposed labor demands and controlled the movement of indigenous Maya. Spaniards established an encomienda and Franciscan visita at Ek Balam in the northern lowlands of the peninsula during the mid-sixteenth century. Complementary forces of doctrina and encomienda fostered the religious, political, and economic subjugation of the Maya. An anal…
Documenting 12,000 Years of Coastal Occupation on the Osmore Littoral, Peru
The history of coastal settlement in Peru beginning ca. 12,000 years ago provides insight into maritime adaptations and regional specialization. We document the Late Paleoindian to Archaic occupational history along the Osmore River coastal plain near Ilo with 95 radiocarbon dates from eight sites. Site distribution suggests that settlement shifted linearly along the coast, possibly in relation to the productivity of coastal springs. Marine foods…
Zooarchaeology in Complex Societies: Political Economy, Status, and Ideology
Valuing the Archaeological Record of Human Impacts on Caribbean Fisheries. Comment on Julio Baisre's “Setting a Baseline for Caribbean Fisheries”
Paleopathology and health of native and introduced animals on Southern Peruvian and Bolivian Spanish Colonial sites
Spanish colonial sites in southern Peru and Bolivia contain remains of native camelids and introduced bovids with examples of degenerative paleopathologies that are interpreted as reflecting changes in herd management, animal use and animal health following the Spanish conquest. The archaeological contexts include three Spanish colonial wineries from Moquegua in southern Peru and the nearby colonial village of Torata Alta where indigenous people …
Isotopic evidence for Middle Horizon to 16th century camelid herding in the Osmore Valley, Peru
Archaeological and zooarchaeological data indicate that camelid pastoralism was a subsistence and economic mainstay of Middle Horizon and more recent cultures in the Osmore region of southern Peru. However, it is not known whether camelids were primarily herded in highland puna pastures or near lower elevation sites in the middle valley or along the coast. This research examines the elevation of archaeological camelid herding in the Osmore Valley…
Dieta Y Uso De Animales en El Potosí Colonial
La colonizacin espaola de la regin de Potos, Bolivia, fue acompaada por cambios en la produccin de alimentos, su distribucin y en las prcticas locales de consumo. Los espaoles establecieron animales de origen euroasitico para crear una fuente de carne que era familiar y aceptable a la prctica ibrica tradicional. El grado de cambio dependi del sistema existente de produccin de alimento, la localizacin geogrfica del establecimiento colonial, la com…
Late Prehispanic Coquina Quarrying and Tomb Construction in Coastal Southern Peru
We document the quarrying and source of coquina stone used in elite tomb construction at two late prehispanic sites in southern Peru. Excavations document tomb construction that includes coquina slabs for chamber walls, doorway lintel stones, and large slabs used to seal tomb openings. At the Inca site of Tacahuay Tambo, we uncovered two massive coquina slabs covering the opening of an extended familial tomb. Smaller coquina blocks were used to c…
The Luxury of Variety: Animals and Social Distinction at the Wari site of Cerro Baúl, Southern Peru
Reconstruction of ancestral temple for a fu (Fu Hao), Anyang, Xiaotun 258 12.3.The afterlife of things: charioteer and chariot in Yinxu site-museum chariot display 259 12.4.Chariots of the ancestors: Anyang, Angang steel works 262 FIGURES xiv 12.5.A dog death-attendant with bronze bell on top of tomb chamber, Sipanmo, Anyang 12.6.Lu: inscribed trophy deer skull, and antler arrowhead 12.7.Niu: inscribed oracle-bone, and hairpin 13.1.Locations disc…
Guinea Pigs in the Pre-Columbian West Indies
In archaeology, human-introduced animals provide clues about social interaction and movement of past peoples. Zooarchaeological records in the Caribbean show that pre-Columbian people introduced several South American mammals to different islands. This article examines all reported pre-Columbian zooarchaeological records of domesticated guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) in the Caribbean. Thus far, 218 bone fragments have been identified from 18 sites…
The political economic and culinary roles of marine fish in southern Peru from the Middle Horizon (A.D. 600) through Spanish colonial periods
Flexibility in Southern Peru Coastal Economies: A Vertebrate Perspective on the Terminal Pleistocene/Holocene Transition
Vertebrate collections from Quebradas Tacahuay, Jaguay, de los Burros, and the Ring Site, located on the southern coast of Peru and occupied during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene, indicate that a flexible use of fishes and other marine vertebrates began with the earliest occupations known for the region and continued into the Early Holocene. Terminal Pleistocene collections have lower fish diversity and fishes are from trophic levels…
Origin of pre-Columbian guinea pigs from Caribbean archeological sites revealed through genetic analysis
Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene fishing strategies at Quebrada Jaguay and the Ring Site, southern Perú
Variations in Human Adaptations During the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Quebrada Jaguay (QJ-280) and the Ring Site, Southern Perú
Vertebrate remains from two stratified sites, the Quebrada Jaguay site (QJ-280) and the Ring Site, reveal details about economic strategies practiced between 13,145 and 7500 cal yr BP on the southern coast of Perú. The near absence of terrestrial resources, a broad continuity in economic activities focused on marine resources, and flexibility within the overall strategy, are among the most interesting aspects of these data. Although they reflect …
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