Behind white-tailed deer teeth: A micro- and mesowear analysis from three Panamanian pre-Columbian archaeological sites

Martínez‐Polanco, María Fernanda; Rivals, Florent; Cooke, Richard G.

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2019.09.022

Quaternary International

2020

DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2019.09.022

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Behind white-tailed deer teeth: A micro- and mesowear analysis from three Panamanian pre-Columbian archaeological sites

María Fernanda Martínez‐Polanco

Florent Rivals

Richard G. Cooke

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Browsing into a Panamanian tropical rainforest: micro- and mesowear study of Central American red brocket deer

Martínez‐Polanco

Rivals²

2023

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The Mazama genus is one of the more diverse genera among deer (Cervidae); its classification is controversial because of its complex phylogenetic relationships. The Central American red brocket deer (Mazama temama) is distributed from Central America to the northwest of South America. Studying the diet of mammals gives us information about the environment in which they live, considering that animals select food according to the resources available in the surrounding environment. Mesowear and microwear provide complementary data because they present direct evidence of feeding behaviour on different time scales. The use of extant animals as control samples or baselines allows for the interpretation of the results of a study performed using the archaeological record. For this reason, the aim of this paper was to study the diet of extant M. temama from Darien and to compare it with our previous results on ancient deer from Pedro Gonzalez Island archaeological site (6060–5620 cal yr BP) and extant individuals from San Jose Island (Panama). Evidence from the meso- and microwear analyses of M. temama from Darien suggests that they were browse-dominated mixed feeders during the last years of their lives and during the days before their death. There was no evidence of seasonal variation in their diets and between sexes. This paper exemplifies the potential of studying extant materials housed in museum collections as a reference to compare them to archaeological remains. The use of the same methods allows to construct baselines to better understand the archaeological record in the Neotropics. Graphical Abstract

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Browsing into a Panamanian tropical rainforest: micro- and mesowear study of Central American red brocket deer

Martínez‐Polanco

Rivals²

2023

Mamm Res

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Human ecological impacts on islands: Exemplified by a dwarf deer (Cervidae: Mazama sp.) on Pedro Gonzalez Island, Pearl Island Archipelago, Pacific Panama (6.2–5.6 kya)

Martínez‐Polanco

Rivals

Sugiyama

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Insights into archaeological and modern neotropical biomes: Examining diet and shape variation through white-tailed deer lower third molar

Martínez-Polanco,

Galán López,

Rivals

2024

Quaternary Environments and Humans

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Behind white-tailed deer teeth: A micro- and mesowear analysis from three Panamanian pre-Columbian archaeological sites

Cited by 4 publications

References 44 publications

Browsing into a Panamanian tropical rainforest: micro- and mesowear study of Central American red brocket deer

Browsing into a Panamanian tropical rainforest: micro- and mesowear study of Central American red brocket deer

Human ecological impacts on islands: Exemplified by a dwarf deer (Cervidae: Mazama sp.) on Pedro Gonzalez Island, Pearl Island Archipelago, Pacific Panama (6.2–5.6 kya)

Insights into archaeological and modern neotropical biomes: Examining diet and shape variation through white-tailed deer lower third molar

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