Analysis of the protohistoric period fauna from the Scott County Pueblo site in western Kansas

The Scott County Pueblo (14SC1) is a seven-room masonry pueblo situated on the High Plains in western Kansas. Recent analyses identify at least two occupations prior to the Pueblo Revolt of 1680: an earlier Dismal River Complex (ancestral Apache, Ndee) occupation dating between AD 1470 and 1640, and a later multiethnic occupation of ancestral Apache (Ndee) and Rio Grande Puebloan peoples dating around AD 1630–1690. This paper reports the results of the zooarchaeological analysis of a faunal collection excavated by James H. Gunnerson in 1965. Our results indicate Scott County hunters preyed upon an array of species, although bison, canids, and turtles were the most common taxa procured. Based on bison skeletal part representation, we hypothesize small groups of hunters traveled to procure bison, and the differential transport of high utility body parts reflects a subsistence strategy to accommodate for the limited labor available for carcass transport

Archaeology · Biology · Culture of the United States · Fauna · Geography · Hearth · Period (music) · Prehistory · Subsistence agriculture · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

• Human-Dog Relationships at Jamestown Colony, Virginia, from Zooarchaeological Analyses

  Open Access•Matthew E Hill, Ariane E Thomas•International Journal of…•2024

  Incluir item

• Pipe forms and regional interaction spheres in the Great Plains and U.S. Southwest

  M E Beck, Trabert et al.•Plains Anthropologist•2023

  Incluir item

• Living off the land

  Derick P Juptner, Matthew E Hill•Plains Anthropologist•2024

  Incluir item

• Taphonomy of the Horner II Bone Bed

  Open Access•Lawrence C Todd•The Horner site•1987

  Incluir item

• Ache Life History

  Kim Hill, A Magdalena Hurtado et al.•Ache Life History•2017

  Incluir item

• Quantitative Paleozoology

  Open Access•R L Lyman•Quantitative Paleozoology•2008

  Incluir item

• Vertebrate Taphonomy

  Open Access•R L Lyman•Vertebrate Taphonomy•1994

  Incluir item

• Reconsidering the Dismal River aspect

  Matthew E Hill, Trabert•Plains Anthropologist•2018

  Incluir item

• Plains Apache Archaeology

  James H Gunnerson•Plains Anthropologist•1968

  Incluir item

• Tewa Red and the Puebloan diaspora

  Open Access•M E Beck, Trabert et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2016

  Incluir item

• Replicating Red

  Open Access•James R McGrath, M E Beck et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2017

  Incluir item

• What Explains the Carcass Field Processing and Transport Decisions of Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers? Measures of Economic Anatomy and Zooarchaeological Skeletal Part Representation

  Open Access•K D Lupo•Journal of Archaeological Method…•2006

  Incluir item

• The Burnham site in northwestern Oklahoma

  Open Access•Matthew G Hill•Geoarchaeology•2005

  Incluir item

• Fat Content in Leg Bones of , and Applications to Archaeology

  Open Access•Jack W Brink•Journal of Archaeological Science•1997

  Incluir item

• A New Approach to Identifying Bone Marrow and Grease Exploitation

  Open Access•A K Outram•Journal of Archaeological Science•2001

  Incluir item

• The prey as patch model

  Open Access•Oskar Burger, M J Hamilton et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2005

  Incluir item

• The Hadza Carcass Transport Debate Revisited and its Archaeological Implications

  Open Access•Christopher M Monahan•Journal of Archaeological Science•1998

  Incluir item

• Bison Bone Fragmentation and Survivorship

  Open Access•Richard E Morlan•Journal of Archaeological Science•1994

  Incluir item

• A New Look at the Old Scottsbluff Bison Quarry

  Matthew E Hill, Andrew R Boehm•PaleoAmerica•2017

  Incluir item

• Nisp

  Open Access•Wolverton, Steve Wolverton•North American Archaeologist•2002

  Incluir item

• Bison and deer bone mineral densities

  Open Access•Lee Ann Kreutzer•Journal of Archaeological Science•1992

  Incluir item

• Alpine faunas from the White Mountains, California

  Open Access•D K Grayson•Journal of Archaeological Science•1991

  Incluir item

• Bone surface modifications in zooarchaeology

  Open Access•J Fisher•Journal of Archaeological Method…•1995

  Incluir item

• Rolling Out Revolution

  Open Access•Alex Bayli•Radiocarbon•2009

  Incluir item

• Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates

  Open Access•Christopher B Ramsey•Radiocarbon•2009

  Incluir item

• The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)

  Open Access•Paula J Reimer, William E N Austin et al.•Radiocarbon•2020

  Incluir item

• On The Identity Of The Chariticas [Sarh Rikka]

  Melburn D Thurman•Plains Anthropologist•1988

  Incluir item

• Analysis of Site Formation Processes at the Rex Rodgers Bison Bonebed

  Matthew E Hill•Plains Anthropologist•2010

  Incluir item

• When is a wolf a dog? Combined geometric morphometrics and stable isotope analyses for differentiating wild from domestic canids on the Northern Plains

  Abigail E Fisher•Plains Anthropologist•2019

  Incluir item

• Uribarri (Ulibarri) and the entrada of 1706

  John Michael Wallen•Plains Anthropologist•2018

  Incluir item

• Archaeological Reminiscences

  James H Gunnerson•Plains Anthropologist•2006

  Incluir item

• Indians of the High Plains, from the Prehistoric Period to the Coming of Europeans

  Edward Everett Dale, George E Hyde et al.•Ethnohistory•1960

  Incluir item

• Following A Glittering Trail

  Open Access•Trabert, Sarah Trabert et al.•American Antiquity•2016

  Incluir item

• A Moveable Feast

  Open Access•Matthew E Hill•American Antiquity•2007

  Incluir item

• Carcass consumption sequences and the archaeological distinction of scavenging and hunting

  Open Access•Robert J Blumenschine•Journal of Human Evolution•1986

  Incluir item

• A model of hunter-gatherer skeletal element transport

  Open Access•Benjamin J Schoville, María Llanos Castellanos Garijo et al.•Journal of Human Evolution•2014

  Incluir item

• Reframing the Protohistoric Period and the (Peri)Colonial Process for the North American Central Plains

  Trabert•World Archaeology•2018

  Incluir item

• Apache, Navaho, and Spaniard

  Max L Moorhead, Jack D Forbes•Hispanic American Historical Review•1961

  Incluir item

• A History of Dogs in the Early Americas

  E N Anderson, Marion Schwartz•Ethnohistory•1998

  Incluir item

• Western Apache Language and Culture

  Eugene S Hunn, Keith H Basso•Ethnohistory•1991

  Incluir item

• Kansas and the Postrevolt Puebloan Diaspora

  Open Access•M E Beck, Trabert et al.•American Antiquity•2014

  Incluir item

• Identifying Necessity and Sufficiency Relationships in Skeletal-Part Representation Using Fuzzy-Set Theory

  Open Access•Joseph E Beaver•American Antiquity•2004

  Incluir item

• Where Did the Plains Indians Get Their Horses

  Open Access•Francis Haines•American Anthropologist•1938

  Incluir item

• An Apache Medicine Dance

  Open Access•Frank Russell•American Anthropologist•1898

  Incluir item

• A Hard Time to Date

  Open Access•Matthew E Hill, M E Beck et al.•American Antiquity•2018

  Incluir item

• New Criteria for the Archaeological Identification of Bone Grease Processing

  Open Access•Eugène Morin, Marie-Cécile Soulier•American Antiquity•2017

  Incluir item