M H Welker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 41456 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M H Welker |
| PRENOMES | M H |
| SOBRENOME | Welker |
| ASSINATURA | WELKER M H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0406-0129 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Swimming Upriver? Exploring the Sources of Freshwater and Marine Fish in Military Diet in Sixteenth‐ to Nineteenth‐Century Northeastern North America
Atlantic cod were caught in large numbers and shipped from fishing stations in North America to Europe and the Caribbean, and this has been frequently studied zooarchaeologically; however, the exchange of cod and other fish into interior North America has received less study. Cod, haddock, Atlantic herring, and Atlantic mackerel remains occur in small numbers in faunal assemblages from military sites in the northeastern United States and eastern …
Oh deer, what are you? differentiating white-tailed and mule deer post-cranial skeletons
Barreled Meat
Food preservation, including salting and barreling meat, has played a significant role in human history; however, it remains challenging to identify cases of salting in the archaeological record. Most studies have relied on limited datasets and focus on body-part profiles observed in faunal assemblages. Known and suspected cases of barreled meat and on-site butchery, drawn from six shipwrecks and seven fur trade posts, provide a means of identify…
Age, Sex, Captivity, and Tooth Crowding in North American Canids
Zooarchaeological analysis
Exploring the Arrival of Domestic Cats in the Americas
Domestic cats have lived alongside human communities for thousands of years, hunting rats, mice, and other pests and serving as pets and a source of pelts and meat. Cats have received limited archaeological attention because their independence limits direct insight into human societies. An adult and juvenile cat recovered from the Emanuel Point wreck 2 (EP2) reflect what are, most likely, the earliest cats in what is now the United States. Zooarc…
Cranial variability in North American domestic and wild canids
Revisiting Harold S. Colton’s 1970 Analysis of Dogs in the Southwest
We provide an updated reanalysis of the morphological data underlying Harold S. Colton’s seminal study of prehistoric dogs in the U.S. Southwest, supplemented with subsequently published data. This analysis confirms Colton’s identification of two dog types in the Southwest and suggests that the larger dog type identified by Colton is primarily correlated with the Pueblo III (ca. 1150–1300 CE) and IV (ca. 1300–1600 CE) periods in the region. Notab…
An Army Marches on Its Stomach
Military garrisons in North America were provisioned with a diet based primarily on domesticates. A relationship between colonial diets and nationality has been an assumed truism, encouraging the belief that colonial diets were static and predetermined by European norms and leading to devaluation of colonists' adaptability and agency. We challenge that perspective using zooarchaeological data on soldiers' diets at 49 American fortifications in No…
Cooperation and Cattle Herding in Eighteenth Century Acadia
Anthropological studies of cattle management have frequently used nomadic open-range African pastoralists as models even when examining more sedentary agro-pastoralists relying upon combinations of crops and livestock that prevent or inhibit mobility. The relatively limited number of datasets on more sedentary agro-pastoralists makes it difficult to assess the suitability of this analogy when modeling and understanding herd dynamics in sedentary …
The Zooarchaeology of Neolithic farmers
Archaeofaunal remains (n = 41,081) from six Neolithic villages in northern Dalmatia indicate the intensification of livestock management from 6000 to 4700 cal BC through changes in the demographic and species compositions of livestock herds that coincide with larger cultural and economic developments in the region. The majority of animal bone at each Neolithic site consisted of sheep and goats. Though cattle and pigs were minor contributors to Ea…
A wolf in sheep’s clothing
The North Atlantic cod trade
Although the trans-Atlantic cod trade linked North American and European socioeconomic spheres, few studies analyze both regions concurrently to understand the impact and extent of cod trade at a wider scale. We summarize new results of zooarchaeological analysis from Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada, a major North American cod-trading port, and consider its role in the wider trans-Atlantic trade network by conducting a meta-analysis of the archae…
Travois Transport and Field Processing
Pioneering Poultry
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…
Revisiting traumatic injury risk and agricultural intensification
OBJECTIVES: In Lambert and Welker (2017) we explored the association between subsistence economy and postcranial fracture prevalence, finding that low-intensity agriculturalists exhibited significantly lower fracture rates than foragers or high-intensity agriculturalists. Here, we explore the impacts of sampling strategy on fracture rates in a sample of high-intensity agriculturalists from the Moche Valley, Peru, and further test the hypothesis t…
Exploring the introduction of European dogs to North America through shoulder height
The introduction of domesticated species to new environments has been used to identify colonisation events in the archaeological record but rarely provides the opportunity to investigate colonists' selection of particular breeds or stock. This analysis employs morphometrics, the measurement of skeletal landmarks, supported by historic documentation to explore the intersection between colonists' breed preferences and species translocation. In doin…
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…
Scaling up
Roads and Military Provisioning During the French and Indian War (1754–1763)
Early British generals faced serious challenges in delivering and storing sufficient provisions for 18th British soldiers and colonial militia. This analysis investigates the influence of developed road systems that facilitated delivery of provisions and resulted in distinctive dietary patterning. The comparison of faunal data from forts located on major road systems with frontier garrisons and associated Native American villages like Fort Shirle…
Traumatic injury risk and agricultural transitions
OBJECTIVES: Bioarchaeological research has documented a general decline in health with the transition from foraging to farming, primarily with respect to changing patterns of morbidity. Less is known about changes in injury risk, an aspect of health more obviously tied to particular landscapes and behaviors associated with different subsistence regimes. The purpose of this research is to evaluate several hypotheses emerging from the ideal free di…
Die Zeitungsmacher
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…
A wolf in sheep’s clothing
Exploring the introduction of European dogs to North America through shoulder height
The introduction of domesticated species to new environments has been used to identify colonisation events in the archaeological record but rarely provides the opportunity to investigate colonists' selection of particular breeds or stock. This analysis employs morphometrics, the measurement of skeletal landmarks, supported by historic documentation to explore the intersection between colonists' breed preferences and species translocation. In doin…
Traumatic injury risk and agricultural transitions
OBJECTIVES: Bioarchaeological research has documented a general decline in health with the transition from foraging to farming, primarily with respect to changing patterns of morbidity. Less is known about changes in injury risk, an aspect of health more obviously tied to particular landscapes and behaviors associated with different subsistence regimes. The purpose of this research is to evaluate several hypotheses emerging from the ideal free di…
Pioneering Poultry
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…
Scaling up
Zooarchaeological analysis
Revisiting Harold S. Colton’s 1970 Analysis of Dogs in the Southwest
We provide an updated reanalysis of the morphological data underlying Harold S. Colton’s seminal study of prehistoric dogs in the U.S. Southwest, supplemented with subsequently published data. This analysis confirms Colton’s identification of two dog types in the Southwest and suggests that the larger dog type identified by Colton is primarily correlated with the Pueblo III (ca. 1150–1300 CE) and IV (ca. 1300–1600 CE) periods in the region. Notab…
An Army Marches on Its Stomach
Military garrisons in North America were provisioned with a diet based primarily on domesticates. A relationship between colonial diets and nationality has been an assumed truism, encouraging the belief that colonial diets were static and predetermined by European norms and leading to devaluation of colonists' adaptability and agency. We challenge that perspective using zooarchaeological data on soldiers' diets at 49 American fortifications in No…
The North Atlantic cod trade
Although the trans-Atlantic cod trade linked North American and European socioeconomic spheres, few studies analyze both regions concurrently to understand the impact and extent of cod trade at a wider scale. We summarize new results of zooarchaeological analysis from Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada, a major North American cod-trading port, and consider its role in the wider trans-Atlantic trade network by conducting a meta-analysis of the archae…
Revisiting traumatic injury risk and agricultural intensification
OBJECTIVES: In Lambert and Welker (2017) we explored the association between subsistence economy and postcranial fracture prevalence, finding that low-intensity agriculturalists exhibited significantly lower fracture rates than foragers or high-intensity agriculturalists. Here, we explore the impacts of sampling strategy on fracture rates in a sample of high-intensity agriculturalists from the Moche Valley, Peru, and further test the hypothesis t…
Roads and Military Provisioning During the French and Indian War (1754–1763)
Early British generals faced serious challenges in delivering and storing sufficient provisions for 18th British soldiers and colonial militia. This analysis investigates the influence of developed road systems that facilitated delivery of provisions and resulted in distinctive dietary patterning. The comparison of faunal data from forts located on major road systems with frontier garrisons and associated Native American villages like Fort Shirle…
Cranial variability in North American domestic and wild canids
Die Zeitungsmacher
Traumatic injury risk and agricultural transitions
OBJECTIVES: Bioarchaeological research has documented a general decline in health with the transition from foraging to farming, primarily with respect to changing patterns of morbidity. Less is known about changes in injury risk, an aspect of health more obviously tied to particular landscapes and behaviors associated with different subsistence regimes. The purpose of this research is to evaluate several hypotheses emerging from the ideal free di…
Scaling up
Roads and Military Provisioning During the French and Indian War (1754–1763)
Early British generals faced serious challenges in delivering and storing sufficient provisions for 18th British soldiers and colonial militia. This analysis investigates the influence of developed road systems that facilitated delivery of provisions and resulted in distinctive dietary patterning. The comparison of faunal data from forts located on major road systems with frontier garrisons and associated Native American villages like Fort Shirle…
Revisiting traumatic injury risk and agricultural intensification
OBJECTIVES: In Lambert and Welker (2017) we explored the association between subsistence economy and postcranial fracture prevalence, finding that low-intensity agriculturalists exhibited significantly lower fracture rates than foragers or high-intensity agriculturalists. Here, we explore the impacts of sampling strategy on fracture rates in a sample of high-intensity agriculturalists from the Moche Valley, Peru, and further test the hypothesis t…
Exploring the introduction of European dogs to North America through shoulder height
The introduction of domesticated species to new environments has been used to identify colonisation events in the archaeological record but rarely provides the opportunity to investigate colonists' selection of particular breeds or stock. This analysis employs morphometrics, the measurement of skeletal landmarks, supported by historic documentation to explore the intersection between colonists' breed preferences and species translocation. In doin…
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…
Travois Transport and Field Processing
Pioneering Poultry
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…
Cooperation and Cattle Herding in Eighteenth Century Acadia
Anthropological studies of cattle management have frequently used nomadic open-range African pastoralists as models even when examining more sedentary agro-pastoralists relying upon combinations of crops and livestock that prevent or inhibit mobility. The relatively limited number of datasets on more sedentary agro-pastoralists makes it difficult to assess the suitability of this analogy when modeling and understanding herd dynamics in sedentary …
The Zooarchaeology of Neolithic farmers
Archaeofaunal remains (n = 41,081) from six Neolithic villages in northern Dalmatia indicate the intensification of livestock management from 6000 to 4700 cal BC through changes in the demographic and species compositions of livestock herds that coincide with larger cultural and economic developments in the region. The majority of animal bone at each Neolithic site consisted of sheep and goats. Though cattle and pigs were minor contributors to Ea…
A wolf in sheep’s clothing
The North Atlantic cod trade
Although the trans-Atlantic cod trade linked North American and European socioeconomic spheres, few studies analyze both regions concurrently to understand the impact and extent of cod trade at a wider scale. We summarize new results of zooarchaeological analysis from Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada, a major North American cod-trading port, and consider its role in the wider trans-Atlantic trade network by conducting a meta-analysis of the archae…
Revisiting Harold S. Colton’s 1970 Analysis of Dogs in the Southwest
We provide an updated reanalysis of the morphological data underlying Harold S. Colton’s seminal study of prehistoric dogs in the U.S. Southwest, supplemented with subsequently published data. This analysis confirms Colton’s identification of two dog types in the Southwest and suggests that the larger dog type identified by Colton is primarily correlated with the Pueblo III (ca. 1150–1300 CE) and IV (ca. 1300–1600 CE) periods in the region. Notab…
An Army Marches on Its Stomach
Military garrisons in North America were provisioned with a diet based primarily on domesticates. A relationship between colonial diets and nationality has been an assumed truism, encouraging the belief that colonial diets were static and predetermined by European norms and leading to devaluation of colonists' adaptability and agency. We challenge that perspective using zooarchaeological data on soldiers' diets at 49 American fortifications in No…
Cranial variability in North American domestic and wild canids
Barreled Meat
Food preservation, including salting and barreling meat, has played a significant role in human history; however, it remains challenging to identify cases of salting in the archaeological record. Most studies have relied on limited datasets and focus on body-part profiles observed in faunal assemblages. Known and suspected cases of barreled meat and on-site butchery, drawn from six shipwrecks and seven fur trade posts, provide a means of identify…
Age, Sex, Captivity, and Tooth Crowding in North American Canids
Zooarchaeological analysis
Exploring the Arrival of Domestic Cats in the Americas
Domestic cats have lived alongside human communities for thousands of years, hunting rats, mice, and other pests and serving as pets and a source of pelts and meat. Cats have received limited archaeological attention because their independence limits direct insight into human societies. An adult and juvenile cat recovered from the Emanuel Point wreck 2 (EP2) reflect what are, most likely, the earliest cats in what is now the United States. Zooarc…
Swimming Upriver? Exploring the Sources of Freshwater and Marine Fish in Military Diet in Sixteenth‐ to Nineteenth‐Century Northeastern North America
Atlantic cod were caught in large numbers and shipped from fishing stations in North America to Europe and the Caribbean, and this has been frequently studied zooarchaeologically; however, the exchange of cod and other fish into interior North America has received less study. Cod, haddock, Atlantic herring, and Atlantic mackerel remains occur in small numbers in faunal assemblages from military sites in the northeastern United States and eastern …
Oh deer, what are you? differentiating white-tailed and mule deer post-cranial skeletons
Geography (19 obras) · Archaeology (15 obras) · Biology (15 obras) · Ecology (11 obras) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (11 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 obras) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (8 obras) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (8 obras) · Livestock (7 obras) · Demography (5 obras)