Animal Resource Exploitation among the Virgin River Puebloans in the American Southwest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11073028 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James T Watson (0000-0002-3307-2428, Arizona State Museum, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 449-459 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Field Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-4690 • E-ISSN: 2042-4582 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/009346908791071123 |
| OpenAlex | W2039775311 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
A review of the literature documenting faunal remains recovered from 16 archaeological sites attributed to the Virjin River Puebloan (VRP) tradition (ca. 300 B.C.–A.D. 1200) of the American Southwest was conducted to identify the importance of wild animal resources to the subsistence strategy. The Number of Individual Specimens (NISP) was counted (NISP = 16,386) and sorted by taxa and animal size categories to explore differences in the distributions of faunal remains by archaeological recovery strategy, site type, physiographic location, and chronology. The most significant factor in the differential use of animal resources among the VRPs was physiographic location. Desert lowland sites had greater species diversity. Sites in the intermediate St. George Basin had more large mammals such as deer, and sites located on the higher plateau had more small mammals such as lagomorphs. These results indicate that the subsistence strategy varied across diverse environmental conditions, but animal resources were always an integral part of the VRP adaptation until their abandonment of the region in the early 13th century A.D
Abandonment (legal · Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Fauna · Geography · Invertebrate · Plateau (mathematics · Resource (disambiguation · Structural basin · Subsistence agriculture · Taxon · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Isotope Analysis in Ecology · Paleontology · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2017 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |