Mesa Verde Subsistence Patterns from Basketmaker to Pueblo III
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5982142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Stiger (National Park Service, corresponding author), Mark A Stiger |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 133-144 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | KIVA (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-1940 • E-ISSN: 2051-6177 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00231940.1979.11757913 |
| OpenAlex | W2490422165 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 8 |
Prehistoric use of flora and fauna in the Mesa Verde area is examined by coprolitc, flotation, pollen, and faunal analyses. Data from Basketmaker III (A.D. 470) to Pueblo III (A.D. 1250) are used to illustrate several trends through time in the changing exploitive pattern of the Anasazi. The major dietary trends are increase in use of seed crops and plants and animals common to disturbed areas, and the decrease in use of squash, pinyon nuts, and animals common to climax forests. These shifts in the subsistence strategy are attributed to population pressure and human caused ecological disturbance from swidden farming methods
Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Climax · Climax community · Ecological succession · Fauna · Flora (microbiology) · Geography · Population · Prehistory · Subsistence agriculture · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Natural History · Demography · Ecology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Resilience Lost
Game Resources, Social Interaction, and the Ecological Footprint in Southwest New Mexico
The nutritional context of the Pueblo III depopulation of the northern San Juan
Advanced geometrical constructs in a Pueblo ceremonial site, c 1200 CE
Check dam agriculture on the mesa verde cuesta
Mano size, stable carbon isotope ratios, and macrobotanical remains as multiple lines of evidence of maize dependence in the American southwest
The recovery and interpretation of microvertebrate bone assemblages from archaeological contexts
Ancestral pueblo population aggregation and abandonment in the North American Southwest
Evolution of 'Tribal' Social Networks
Direct Evidence for the Importance of Small Animals to Prehistoric Diets
The Relationship between Diet and Porous Cranial Lesions in the Southwest United States
Pit Structure Abandonment in the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest
The causes of porotic hyperostosis and cribra orbitalia
Plant Remains Recovered by Flotation from Trash at Salmon Ruin, New Mexico
Prehispanic Environmental Impact in the Mimbres Region, Southwestern New Mexico
Mogollon Agrarian Ecology
Maize Dependence among the Sevier Puebloans
Isotopic Reconstruction of Mesa Verde Diet from Basketmaker III to Pueblo III
Long-Term Anasazi Land Use and Forest Reduction
Toward a theory of non-linear transitions from foraging to farming
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2025 (45) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |