D A Byers
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 24721 |
|---|---|
| NOME | D A Byers |
| PRENOMES | D A |
| SOBRENOME | Byers |
| ASSINATURA | BYERS D A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Utah State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6463-2646 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 267 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Protein movement and artifact contamination in geological contexts
Age, Sex, Captivity, and Tooth Crowding in North American Canids
Cranial variability in North American domestic and wild canids
Climatic controls and costly signaling
In this paper, we explore and integrate different currencies that may underlie large-game hunting to guide a trans-Holocene analysis of variation in artiodactyl utilization using massive archaeofaunal data-sets from predominantly open-air sites from the Bonneville and Wyoming basins. The available empirical data continue to suggest that artiodactyls yield consistently higher return rates than lagomorphs allowing us to leverage predictions from bo…
Landscape Engineering Impacts the Long-Term Stability of Agricultural Populations
I wanna be your dog
The domestic dog ( Canis familiaris ) holds a unique place in human cultures as the first species to be domesticated and has been adapted to a greater diversity of functions requiring far greater morphological variation than any other domesticate. Because of this variability in morphology and pronounced skeletal similarities with other canid species, dog remains are frequently challenging to identify in the archaeological record. Analysts have at…
Impact scar frequency, bone density and marrow utility
This paper presents an experiment designed to evaluate the relationships between impact scar, bone density and the marrow utility of various appendicular elements. Several North American bison assemblages show positive correlations between impact scar frequencies and by‐element marrow utilities. However, this pattern may represent an equifinal relationship between bone density, nutritional utility and processing effort. In our experiment, we test…
The Birch Creek Canids and Dogs as Transport Labor in the Intermountain West
Historically, domestic dogs(Canis familiaris)have been documented as central features of Intermountain West and Great Plains Native American camps. Some of these dogs were bred specifically for largeness and stamina to haultravoisand to carry pannier-style packs. Ethnographic accounts frequently highlight the importance of dogs in moving through the Intermountain West and the plains, reporting loads as heavy as 45 kg (100 lbs). We calculated body…
Folsom Mammoth Hunters? The Terminal Pleistocene Assemblage From Owl Cave (10bv30), Wasden Site, Idaho
The 1960s and 1970s excavations at Owl Cave (10BV30) recovered mammoth bone and Folsom-like points from the same strata, suggesting evidence for a post-Clovis mammoth kill. However, a synthesis of the excavation data was never published, and the locality has since been purged from the roster of sites with human/extinct megafauna associations. Here, we present dates on bone from the oldest stratum, review provenience data, conduct a bone-surface m…
Holocene cold storage practices on the eastern Snake River Plain
Flake Morphology, Fluvial Dynamics, and Debitage Transport Potential
Since archaeological sites are often located in or near fluvial environments, a thorough understanding of corresponding formation processes is a critical component of archaeological research. Within this context, we address the following question: how does flake morphology condition transport potential? Specifically, do flakes behave as the idealized spheres often used to characterize geological materials and if so, how might this process modify …
Skeletal Fat, Processing Intensity, and the Late Holocene Bison from Baker Cave, Southern Idaho
Although Idaho's Snake River Plain contains a trans-Holocene record of bison exploitation, archaeologists have rarely investigated carcass butchery strategies in the region. We fill this knowledge gap with a study of bison remains from Baker Cave, a late Holocene processing site on the eastern Snake River Plain. We hypothesize that these remains resulted from fat-seeking behavior in response to winter fat scarcity. We explore this hypothesis with…
Holocene bison diminution on the Snake River Plain, Idaho, USA
Researchers have established a Holocene pattern of Bison spp. diminution on the Great Plains of North America. This pattern, however, is less clear west of the Rocky Mountains. This lack of clarity stems from a relative paucity of paleontological and archaeological bison assemblages sufficiently large enough to understand local bison diminution. To begin filling this important gap in knowledge, we analyze a large bison assemblage from Baker Cave,…
Assessing measurement error in paleozoological osteometrics with bison remains
Heat Treatment, Ozarks Cherts, and Prehistoric Toolstone Use in Southwest Missouri
Burlington and Jefferson City cherts often dominate Ozarks lithic assemblages, and this record contains ample evidence for the heat treatment of both. In this paper, we use a technological investment model to understand why prehistoric knappers may have invested in heat treatment at the Big Eddy Site in southwest Missouri. Tech investment models offer one way to evaluate the cost-benefit relationships of various technologies and, consequently, th…
Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans
Prey Body Size and Ranking in Zooarchaeology
The use of body size as an index of prey rank in zooarchaeology has fostered a widely applied approach to understanding variability in foraging efficiency. This approach has, however, been critiqued-most recently by the suggestion that large prey have high probabilities of failed pursuits. Here, we clarify the logic and history of using body size as a measure of prey rank and summarize empirical data on the body size-return rate relationship. Wit…
Stable isotope chemistry, population histories and Late Prehistoric subsistence change in the Aleutian Islands
Pronghorn Dental Age Profiles and Holocene Hunting Strategies at Hogup Cave, Utah
In this article, we use pronghorn dental age data to document pronghorn hunting strategies at Hogup Cave, Utah, and explore their relationship with a widespread late Holocene trend in increasing large-game abundances noted in archaeofaunal contexts throughout western North America. Specifically, we test the hypothesis that at Hogup Cave, pronghorn hunting methods changed from a middle Holocene strategy dominated by encounter hunting of individual…
Did climatic seasonality control late Quaternary artiodactyl densities in western North America?
Bison Exploitation in the Wyoming Basin at the Middle/Late Holocene Transition
Wyoming Basin archaeojaunas dating to the Middle/Late Holocene transition typically lack bison remains and instead suggest a focus on a wide range of smaller prey species. Excavations along the Sweetwater River at the Graham Ranch site produced an extensive assemblage of highly fragmented bison bones representing the remains of at least two bison that were intensively processed for meat, marrow, and grease. We use a patch use model, in combinatio…
Ecosystem controls and the archaeofaunal record
Regional palaeoenvironmental reconstructions and data on artiodactyl response to climate change suggest that large game densities would have expanded in response to increasingly mesic conditions during the late Holocene in the Wyoming Basin. We use the prey model of foraging theory to predict late-Holocene increases in artiodactyls, relative to lagomorphs and rodents, and more specifically in bison relative to pronghorn. This prediction is then t…
A global perspective on the spatiotemporal pattern of the Late Pleistocene human and woolly mammoth radiocarbon record
Multiple approaches to formation processes
Excavations in 1964 at the Pine Spring site in southwest Wyoming concluded that the site contains three cultural occupation levels; the earliest allegedly dates to the terminal Pleistocene and is associated with megafauna. However, excavations in 1998 and 2000, and analysis of the stratigraphy, AMS dates, micromorphology, and artifact carbonate isotopes, along with debitage refitting, density, orientation, inclination, burning, and trample damage…
Should we expect large game specialization in the late Pleistocene? An optimal foraging perspective on early Paleoindian prey choice
Prey Body Size and Ranking in Zooarchaeology
The use of body size as an index of prey rank in zooarchaeology has fostered a widely applied approach to understanding variability in foraging efficiency. This approach has, however, been critiqued-most recently by the suggestion that large prey have high probabilities of failed pursuits. Here, we clarify the logic and history of using body size as a measure of prey rank and summarize empirical data on the body size-return rate relationship. Wit…
Should we expect large game specialization in the late Pleistocene? An optimal foraging perspective on early Paleoindian prey choice
Holocene Environmental Change, Artiodactyl Abundances, and Human Hunting Strategies in the Great Basin
Despite a deep Great Basin tradition of incorporating paleoenvironmental change within ecologically oriented analyses of past human lifeways, there has been little attention focused on Holocene variation in artiodactyl abundances and the human hunting strategies dependent upon them. Here, we draw upon recently generated paleontological evidence from Homestead Cave of the Bonneville Basin to document a late Holocene artiodactyl population increase…
Holocene artiodactyl population histories and large game hunting in the Wyoming Basin, USA
A global perspective on the spatiotemporal pattern of the Late Pleistocene human and woolly mammoth radiocarbon record
The dynamics of aggregate political popularity
Flake Morphology, Fluvial Dynamics, and Debitage Transport Potential
Since archaeological sites are often located in or near fluvial environments, a thorough understanding of corresponding formation processes is a critical component of archaeological research. Within this context, we address the following question: how does flake morphology condition transport potential? Specifically, do flakes behave as the idealized spheres often used to characterize geological materials and if so, how might this process modify …
Assessing measurement error in paleozoological osteometrics with bison remains
Stable isotope chemistry, population histories and Late Prehistoric subsistence change in the Aleutian Islands
Paleoindian Fat-Seeking Behavior
Analysis of the Agate Basin component faunal remains from the Hell Gap Site (48G0305) Locality II suggests that the assemblage results from a multi-dimensional formational history. Comparisons of skeletal element frequencies with models of density-mediated attrition, bison settling velocities, and several nutritional utility indices indicate that both fluvial action and the transport of high marrow value elements from kill sites to the residentia…
Ecosystem controls and the archaeofaunal record
Regional palaeoenvironmental reconstructions and data on artiodactyl response to climate change suggest that large game densities would have expanded in response to increasingly mesic conditions during the late Holocene in the Wyoming Basin. We use the prey model of foraging theory to predict late-Holocene increases in artiodactyls, relative to lagomorphs and rodents, and more specifically in bison relative to pronghorn. This prediction is then t…
The Birch Creek Canids and Dogs as Transport Labor in the Intermountain West
Historically, domestic dogs(Canis familiaris)have been documented as central features of Intermountain West and Great Plains Native American camps. Some of these dogs were bred specifically for largeness and stamina to haultravoisand to carry pannier-style packs. Ethnographic accounts frequently highlight the importance of dogs in moving through the Intermountain West and the plains, reporting loads as heavy as 45 kg (100 lbs). We calculated body…
Pronghorn Dental Age Profiles and Holocene Hunting Strategies at Hogup Cave, Utah
In this article, we use pronghorn dental age data to document pronghorn hunting strategies at Hogup Cave, Utah, and explore their relationship with a widespread late Holocene trend in increasing large-game abundances noted in archaeofaunal contexts throughout western North America. Specifically, we test the hypothesis that at Hogup Cave, pronghorn hunting methods changed from a middle Holocene strategy dominated by encounter hunting of individual…
Folsom Mammoth Hunters? The Terminal Pleistocene Assemblage From Owl Cave (10bv30), Wasden Site, Idaho
The 1960s and 1970s excavations at Owl Cave (10BV30) recovered mammoth bone and Folsom-like points from the same strata, suggesting evidence for a post-Clovis mammoth kill. However, a synthesis of the excavation data was never published, and the locality has since been purged from the roster of sites with human/extinct megafauna associations. Here, we present dates on bone from the oldest stratum, review provenience data, conduct a bone-surface m…
I wanna be your dog
The domestic dog ( Canis familiaris ) holds a unique place in human cultures as the first species to be domesticated and has been adapted to a greater diversity of functions requiring far greater morphological variation than any other domesticate. Because of this variability in morphology and pronounced skeletal similarities with other canid species, dog remains are frequently challenging to identify in the archaeological record. Analysts have at…
Skeletal Fat, Processing Intensity, and the Late Holocene Bison from Baker Cave, Southern Idaho
Although Idaho's Snake River Plain contains a trans-Holocene record of bison exploitation, archaeologists have rarely investigated carcass butchery strategies in the region. We fill this knowledge gap with a study of bison remains from Baker Cave, a late Holocene processing site on the eastern Snake River Plain. We hypothesize that these remains resulted from fat-seeking behavior in response to winter fat scarcity. We explore this hypothesis with…
Bison Exploitation in the Wyoming Basin at the Middle/Late Holocene Transition
Wyoming Basin archaeojaunas dating to the Middle/Late Holocene transition typically lack bison remains and instead suggest a focus on a wide range of smaller prey species. Excavations along the Sweetwater River at the Graham Ranch site produced an extensive assemblage of highly fragmented bison bones representing the remains of at least two bison that were intensively processed for meat, marrow, and grease. We use a patch use model, in combinatio…
Holocene bison diminution on the Snake River Plain, Idaho, USA
Researchers have established a Holocene pattern of Bison spp. diminution on the Great Plains of North America. This pattern, however, is less clear west of the Rocky Mountains. This lack of clarity stems from a relative paucity of paleontological and archaeological bison assemblages sufficiently large enough to understand local bison diminution. To begin filling this important gap in knowledge, we analyze a large bison assemblage from Baker Cave,…
Heat Treatment, Ozarks Cherts, and Prehistoric Toolstone Use in Southwest Missouri
Burlington and Jefferson City cherts often dominate Ozarks lithic assemblages, and this record contains ample evidence for the heat treatment of both. In this paper, we use a technological investment model to understand why prehistoric knappers may have invested in heat treatment at the Big Eddy Site in southwest Missouri. Tech investment models offer one way to evaluate the cost-benefit relationships of various technologies and, consequently, th…
Cranial variability in North American domestic and wild canids
Climatic controls and costly signaling
In this paper, we explore and integrate different currencies that may underlie large-game hunting to guide a trans-Holocene analysis of variation in artiodactyl utilization using massive archaeofaunal data-sets from predominantly open-air sites from the Bonneville and Wyoming basins. The available empirical data continue to suggest that artiodactyls yield consistently higher return rates than lagomorphs allowing us to leverage predictions from bo…
Multiple approaches to formation processes
Excavations in 1964 at the Pine Spring site in southwest Wyoming concluded that the site contains three cultural occupation levels; the earliest allegedly dates to the terminal Pleistocene and is associated with megafauna. However, excavations in 1998 and 2000, and analysis of the stratigraphy, AMS dates, micromorphology, and artifact carbonate isotopes, along with debitage refitting, density, orientation, inclination, burning, and trample damage…
Socially mediated fear reduction in rodents
The dynamics of aggregate political popularity
Taphonomic analysis, associational integrity, and depositional history of the Fetterman Mammoth, eastern Wyoming, U.S.A
The Fetterman Mammoth locality, eastern Wyoming, U.S.A., produced the remains of a single subadult mammoth and a small lithic assemblage. This paper employs a fine‐grained taphonomic approach to investigate the events responsible for the deposit's creation. No cultural modifications were noted on any of the specimens. Long axis orientations plotted against a reconstruction of the depositional surface suggest limited postdepositional movement of i…
Paleoindian Fat-Seeking Behavior
Analysis of the Agate Basin component faunal remains from the Hell Gap Site (48G0305) Locality II suggests that the assemblage results from a multi-dimensional formational history. Comparisons of skeletal element frequencies with models of density-mediated attrition, bison settling velocities, and several nutritional utility indices indicate that both fluvial action and the transport of high marrow value elements from kill sites to the residentia…
Holocene artiodactyl population histories and large game hunting in the Wyoming Basin, USA
Holocene Environmental Change, Artiodactyl Abundances, and Human Hunting Strategies in the Great Basin
Despite a deep Great Basin tradition of incorporating paleoenvironmental change within ecologically oriented analyses of past human lifeways, there has been little attention focused on Holocene variation in artiodactyl abundances and the human hunting strategies dependent upon them. Here, we draw upon recently generated paleontological evidence from Homestead Cave of the Bonneville Basin to document a late Holocene artiodactyl population increase…
Should we expect large game specialization in the late Pleistocene? An optimal foraging perspective on early Paleoindian prey choice
Multiple approaches to formation processes
Excavations in 1964 at the Pine Spring site in southwest Wyoming concluded that the site contains three cultural occupation levels; the earliest allegedly dates to the terminal Pleistocene and is associated with megafauna. However, excavations in 1998 and 2000, and analysis of the stratigraphy, AMS dates, micromorphology, and artifact carbonate isotopes, along with debitage refitting, density, orientation, inclination, burning, and trample damage…
Ecosystem controls and the archaeofaunal record
Regional palaeoenvironmental reconstructions and data on artiodactyl response to climate change suggest that large game densities would have expanded in response to increasingly mesic conditions during the late Holocene in the Wyoming Basin. We use the prey model of foraging theory to predict late-Holocene increases in artiodactyls, relative to lagomorphs and rodents, and more specifically in bison relative to pronghorn. This prediction is then t…
A global perspective on the spatiotemporal pattern of the Late Pleistocene human and woolly mammoth radiocarbon record
Did climatic seasonality control late Quaternary artiodactyl densities in western North America?
Bison Exploitation in the Wyoming Basin at the Middle/Late Holocene Transition
Wyoming Basin archaeojaunas dating to the Middle/Late Holocene transition typically lack bison remains and instead suggest a focus on a wide range of smaller prey species. Excavations along the Sweetwater River at the Graham Ranch site produced an extensive assemblage of highly fragmented bison bones representing the remains of at least two bison that were intensively processed for meat, marrow, and grease. We use a patch use model, in combinatio…
Pronghorn Dental Age Profiles and Holocene Hunting Strategies at Hogup Cave, Utah
In this article, we use pronghorn dental age data to document pronghorn hunting strategies at Hogup Cave, Utah, and explore their relationship with a widespread late Holocene trend in increasing large-game abundances noted in archaeofaunal contexts throughout western North America. Specifically, we test the hypothesis that at Hogup Cave, pronghorn hunting methods changed from a middle Holocene strategy dominated by encounter hunting of individual…
Stable isotope chemistry, population histories and Late Prehistoric subsistence change in the Aleutian Islands
Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans
Prey Body Size and Ranking in Zooarchaeology
The use of body size as an index of prey rank in zooarchaeology has fostered a widely applied approach to understanding variability in foraging efficiency. This approach has, however, been critiqued-most recently by the suggestion that large prey have high probabilities of failed pursuits. Here, we clarify the logic and history of using body size as a measure of prey rank and summarize empirical data on the body size-return rate relationship. Wit…
Holocene bison diminution on the Snake River Plain, Idaho, USA
Researchers have established a Holocene pattern of Bison spp. diminution on the Great Plains of North America. This pattern, however, is less clear west of the Rocky Mountains. This lack of clarity stems from a relative paucity of paleontological and archaeological bison assemblages sufficiently large enough to understand local bison diminution. To begin filling this important gap in knowledge, we analyze a large bison assemblage from Baker Cave,…
Assessing measurement error in paleozoological osteometrics with bison remains
Heat Treatment, Ozarks Cherts, and Prehistoric Toolstone Use in Southwest Missouri
Burlington and Jefferson City cherts often dominate Ozarks lithic assemblages, and this record contains ample evidence for the heat treatment of both. In this paper, we use a technological investment model to understand why prehistoric knappers may have invested in heat treatment at the Big Eddy Site in southwest Missouri. Tech investment models offer one way to evaluate the cost-benefit relationships of various technologies and, consequently, th…
Flake Morphology, Fluvial Dynamics, and Debitage Transport Potential
Since archaeological sites are often located in or near fluvial environments, a thorough understanding of corresponding formation processes is a critical component of archaeological research. Within this context, we address the following question: how does flake morphology condition transport potential? Specifically, do flakes behave as the idealized spheres often used to characterize geological materials and if so, how might this process modify …
Skeletal Fat, Processing Intensity, and the Late Holocene Bison from Baker Cave, Southern Idaho
Although Idaho's Snake River Plain contains a trans-Holocene record of bison exploitation, archaeologists have rarely investigated carcass butchery strategies in the region. We fill this knowledge gap with a study of bison remains from Baker Cave, a late Holocene processing site on the eastern Snake River Plain. We hypothesize that these remains resulted from fat-seeking behavior in response to winter fat scarcity. We explore this hypothesis with…
Holocene cold storage practices on the eastern Snake River Plain
Folsom Mammoth Hunters? The Terminal Pleistocene Assemblage From Owl Cave (10bv30), Wasden Site, Idaho
The 1960s and 1970s excavations at Owl Cave (10BV30) recovered mammoth bone and Folsom-like points from the same strata, suggesting evidence for a post-Clovis mammoth kill. However, a synthesis of the excavation data was never published, and the locality has since been purged from the roster of sites with human/extinct megafauna associations. Here, we present dates on bone from the oldest stratum, review provenience data, conduct a bone-surface m…
The Birch Creek Canids and Dogs as Transport Labor in the Intermountain West
Historically, domestic dogs(Canis familiaris)have been documented as central features of Intermountain West and Great Plains Native American camps. Some of these dogs were bred specifically for largeness and stamina to haultravoisand to carry pannier-style packs. Ethnographic accounts frequently highlight the importance of dogs in moving through the Intermountain West and the plains, reporting loads as heavy as 45 kg (100 lbs). We calculated body…
Impact scar frequency, bone density and marrow utility
This paper presents an experiment designed to evaluate the relationships between impact scar, bone density and the marrow utility of various appendicular elements. Several North American bison assemblages show positive correlations between impact scar frequencies and by‐element marrow utilities. However, this pattern may represent an equifinal relationship between bone density, nutritional utility and processing effort. In our experiment, we test…
Geography (25 obras) · Archaeology (19 obras) · Biology (18 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (18 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 obras) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (15 obras) · Geology (14 obras) · Ecology (13 obras) · Paleontology (13 obras) · Holocene (11 obras)