Holocene faunal procurement and species response to climate change in the Ohio River valley
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11380393 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth B Tankersley (0000-0002-2474-6283, Departments of Anthropology and Geology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA, corresponding author), Nichelle Lyle (University of Cincinnati) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 192-235 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | North American Archaeologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0197-6931 • E-ISSN: 1541-3543 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0197693119889256 |
| OpenAlex | W2992682557 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
This paper examines the temporal distribution of 163 distinct species recovered from 21 well-dated Holocene age archaeological sites in the Ohio River valley to determine patterns of faunal resource procurement and their response to periods of climate change. Climate change proxies include bison, long-billed curlew, pine marten, porcupine, prairie vole, and swamp rabbit. While the rice rat may be a proxy of climate change, its initial appearance in the Archaic cultural period co-occurs with storable starchy and oily seed crops such as erect knotweed, little barley, marsh elder, maygrass, and sunflower. Subsistence proxies that transcend climate change include variety of aquatic (bass/sunfish, buffalo, channel catfish, freshwater drum, gar, mussels, snails, snapping and spiny softshell turtles, and river redhorse sucker), avian (blue-wing teal, Canada goose, and turkey), and terrestrial species (dog, eastern cotton-tail, elk, gray and fox squirrels, opossum, raccoon, timber rattlesnake, and woodchuck). Caldwell’s Primary Forest Efficiency remains a valid theoretical model of Holocene subsistence strategy in the Ohio River valley
Archaeology · Biology · Climate change · Fauna · Fishery · Geography · Holocene · Marsh · Wetland · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Tree-ring climate responses · Ecology
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |