Assessing diet and seasonality in the Lower Pecos canyonlands: an evaluation of coprolite specimens as records of individual dietary decisions

Riley, Timothy E.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2011.09.016

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“…), and prickly pear (Opuntia spp.) (Riley, 2008(Riley, , 2010Sobolik, 1991). These also represent the plant communities preferred by N. albigula and N. micropus (Davis and Schmidly, 1994).…”

Section: Spatial Analysis Of Burned Rock Middensmentioning

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“…Food was prepared and roasted in earth oven facilities in the rockshelters. One of the most commonly prepared foods was agave, a desert succulent plant (Bryant, 1974;Bryant and Williams-Dean, 1975;Danielson and Reinhard, 1998;Reinhard and Danielson, 2005;Riley, 2008Riley, , 2010. The preparation and consumption of agave resulted in a considerable mass of fiber mixed with broken rock, which was an ideal habitat for triatomines.…”

Section: Gis Detection Of Larger Ecosystem Driversmentioning

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Prehistoric earth oven facilities and the pathoecology of Chagas disease in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands

Reinhard

Araújo

2015

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Prehistoric earth oven facilities and the pathoecology of Chagas disease in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands

Reinhard

Araújo

2015

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…Furthermore, providing firm divergence‐time estimates for the major clades and species within Cylindropuntieae could aid in our understanding of their use and potential dispersal by Pleistocene mammals such as Nothrotheriops shastense Hoffstetter (the extinct shasta ground sloth), and Neotoma spp. (packrats or woodrats; Thompson et al., ; Jansen, ; Van Devender, ; Betancourt et al., ), as well as their broad prehistoric and historical use by humans (Diguet, ; Bravo‐Hollis and Sánchez‐Mejorada, ; Felger and Moser, ; Minnis, ; Reinhard and Hevly, ; Hodgson, ; Riley, ). Lastly, the development of a robust diploid phylogeny will enable us to more rigorously test parentage of putative auto‐/allopolyploids in the group (see Baker and Pinkava, , , ; Mayer et al., , ; Pinkava, ; Baker and Cloud‐Hughes, ).…”

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Phylogenomics in Cactaceae: A case study using the chollas sensu lato (Cylindropuntieae, Opuntioideae) reveals a common pattern out of the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts

Majure

Baker

Cloud-Hughes³

et al. 2019

American J of Botany

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Premise Although numerous phylogenetic studies have been conducted in Cactaceae, whole‐plastome datasets have not been employed. We used the chollas to develop a plastome dataset for phylogeny reconstruction to test species relationships, biogeography, clade age, and morphological evolution. Methods We developed a plastome dataset for most known diploid members of the chollas (42 taxa) as well as for other members of Cylindropuntieae. Paired‐end, raw reads from genome skimming were reference‐mapped onto a de novo plastome assembly of one species of cholla, Cylindropuntia bigelovii, and were used to build our plastome dataset, which was analyzed using various methods. Results Our plastome dataset resolved the phylogeny of the chollas, including most interspecific and intraspecific relationships. Tribe Cylindropuntieae arose ~18 mya, during the early Miocene in southern South America, and is supported as sister to the South American clade Tephrocacteae. The (Micropuntia (Cylindropuntia + Grusonia)) clade most likely originated in the Chihuahuan Desert region around 16 mya and then migrated into other North American desert regions. Key morphological characters for recognizing traditional taxonomic series in Cylindropuntia (e.g., spiny fruit) are mostly homoplasious. Conclusions This study provides the first comprehensive plastome phylogeny for any clade within Cactaceae. Although the chollas s.l. are widespread throughout western North American deserts, their most recent common ancestor likely arose in the Chihuahuan Desert region during the mid‐Miocene, with much of their species diversity arising in the early to mid‐Pliocene, a pattern strikingly similar to those found in other western North American desert groups.

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“…Addressing the debate about the nature of WST subsistence and land-use patterns has been hampered by the paucity of direct evidence of human diets from this period (Smith and Barker 2017). The most direct method for understanding past human dietary decisions is through the analysis of coprolites (Battillo 2019;Bryant 1974b;Callen 1963;Riley 2008Riley , 2010. Here we present a multiproxy analysis of pollen, phytolith, macrobotanical, faunal, and insect remains from nine YD/EH human coprolites recovered at the Paisley Caves in south central Oregon ( Fig.…”

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Younger Dryas and early Holocene subsistence in the northern Great Basin: multiproxy analysis of coprolites from the Paisley Caves, Oregon, USA

Blong

Adams²,

Sanchez

et al. 2020

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Younger Dryas and early Holocene Western Stemmed Tradition occupants of the northern Great Basin appear to have practiced a broad-based subsistence strategy including the consumption of a wide variety of small animal and plant resources. However, much of our evidence for human diet and land use during this period comes from dry cave and rockshelter sites where it can be challenging to distinguish plant and small animal remains deposited as a result of human versus nonhuman activity. This study presents new direct evidence for Younger Dryas and early Holocene human diet in the northern Great Basin through multiproxy analysis of nine human coprolites from the Paisley Caves, Oregon, USA. The evidence indicates that Western Stemmed Tradition occupants consumed plants, small mammals, fish, and insects, including direct evidence for consumption of whole rodents and several types of beetle. Occupation of the caves occurred during the summer and fall by individuals foraging on wetland, sagebrush grassland, and riparian ecological landscapes suggesting geographical and seasonal variability in land-use patterns during the Younger Dryas and early Holocene periods. This research suggests that Western Stemmed Tradition settlement patterns were seasonally centered on productive valley bottom lakes and wetlands but also included forays to a variety of ecological landscapes. The results highlight the importance of plant and small animal resources in the human diet during the terminal Pleistocene settlement of North America and contribute to debates about the process of the peopling of the Americas.

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Assessing diet and seasonality in the Lower Pecos canyonlands: an evaluation of coprolite specimens as records of individual dietary decisions

Cited by 25 publications

References 250 publications

Prehistoric earth oven facilities and the pathoecology of Chagas disease in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands

Prehistoric earth oven facilities and the pathoecology of Chagas disease in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands

Phylogenomics in Cactaceae: A case study using the chollas sensu lato (Cylindropuntieae, Opuntioideae) reveals a common pattern out of the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts

Younger Dryas and early Holocene subsistence in the northern Great Basin: multiproxy analysis of coprolites from the Paisley Caves, Oregon, USA

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