Holocene mammalian change in the central Columbia Basin of eastern Washington state, USA

Lyman, R. Lee

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.06.009

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“…Zooarchaeological datasets have enabled the global investigation of alterations in resource availability in response to both anthropogenic factors and climate variability, indicated by changes in relative abundance of taxa across centuries to millennial time scales (e.g. Andrus et al 2002;Aswani and Allen 2009;Barrett et al 2011;Broughton 1997;Butler and Campbell 2004;Erlandson et al 2009;Faith 2014;Fitzpatrick and Donaldson 2007;Giovas et al 2016;Grayson 2001;Lyman 2016;Moss 2012;Nagaoka 2002;Reitz 2004;West 2009). We highlight the potential impact of ENSO variability on the western and central Pacific Ocean skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis) fishery over the last 2000 years.…”

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Late Holocene Marshall Islands Archaeological Tuna Records Provide Proxy Evidence for ENSO Variability in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean

Lambrides

Weisler

2017

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

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Tuna will have increased importance to Pacific Island nations in coming decades for food security and economic needs; consequently, sustainable fisheries management policies are imperative. The frequency and temporal distribution of tuna bones from tropical Pacific archaeological sites is essential for documenting millennial scale records that detail the responses of tuna stocks to anthropogenic fishing pressure and climatic variability. We highlight the potential impacts of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability on the western and central Pacific Ocean skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis) fishery over the last 2000 years. Ebon Atoll (4°38′24.67″N, 168°42′23.56″E), Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) archaeological data and regional western and central Pacific Islands archaeological tuna fishery data are evaluated. These datasets are compared to palaeoclimate records, which track hydroclimate variability during the last 2000 years, and recent historic capture records, which document associations between ENSO and skipjack abundance and range throughout the tropical Pacific Ocean.Results suggest that regional and temporal trends in archaeological scombrid/skipjack abundance provide proxy evidence for western and central Pacific Ocean ENSO variability, while prehistoric human impacts to the tuna fishery appear to be negligible. Future research should include species-level identification of all archaeological tuna bones and establish fine-grained local climate data across the region that is tied to well-dated archaeological sequences, thus enhancing our understanding of how regional climate influences the geographic distribution and relative abundance of tuna species over millennia.

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Late Holocene Marshall Islands Archaeological Tuna Records Provide Proxy Evidence for ENSO Variability in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean

Lambrides

Weisler

2017

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

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“…Despite these problems, the extent and pace of such change becomes apparent when interpreting long‐term palaeoecological data sets, especially those from a constrained geographical region (e.g. Davis 1982; Lyman 2016).…”

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The Late Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna of Oumm Qatafa Cave, Judean Desert: taxonomy, taphonomy and palaeoenvironment

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Shafir

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J Quaternary Science

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The Middle Pleistocene archaeological record of the southern Levant has proven key to understanding human evolution and intercontinental faunal biogeography. Knowledge of archaeological sites of that period in the southern Levant is biased, with most Middle Pleistocene localities in the Mediterranean areas in the north, despite the mosaic of environments that mark the entire region. A key Middle Pleistocene location in the Judean Deserton the eastern margin of the Mediterranean zoneis the site of Oumm Qatafa, excavated in the early 1900s, which yielded a faunal collection spanning an estimated time period of 600-200 kya. Here, we present a revised taxonomy of the macromammalian fauna from the site, discuss the palaeoenvironmental implications of this assemblage, and relate the finds to other Pleistocene sites from the Levant. These data enable a more precise palaeoenvironmental reconstruction which attests to an open landscape, but with the addition of a mesic Mediterranean component close by. In addition, detailed taphonomic observations on butchery marks and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy analysis of burnt bone link the fauna for the first time to anthropogenic activities in the cave.

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“…Late-Pleistocene-Holocene mammalian biogeography across western North America has been shaped by a series of taxonomic turnovers and extirpations that are convincingly tied to environmental change and the associated modifications of energetically favorable habitats (Blois et al, 2010;Driver, 2001;Grayson, 1998Grayson, , 2006Grayson, , 2011Lyman, 2014Lyman, , 2016Terry and Rowe, 2015). The results of our investigations provide new evidence highlighting both the array and severity of the changes that took place and demonstrate that biological changes may not correspond directly with climatic events, but rather to geomorphological changes that may delay a direct response.…”

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“…Most notable were changes in the types and abundances of small-bodied mammals whose ecological preferences and physiological tolerances are controlled by temperature, moisture, and associated biotic communities. This especially is the case in arid environments like the Bonneville basin where both paleontological and modern wildlife studies have identified positive correlations between mammal species richness and primary productivity as increases in precipitation generally enhance herbivore biomass and support more taxa (Abramsky and Rosenzweig, 1984;Brown, 1973;Grayson, 1998;Lyman, 2016;Meserve and Glanz, 1978;Rowe and Terry, 2014;Schmitt and Lupo, 2012). Small-mammal assemblages from early-Holocene deposits in Bonneville basin sites contain a variety of species, including taxa adapted to mesic contexts, and suggest that moist conditions persisted until the onset of desertification about 8300 14 C BP (Grayson, 2000a(Grayson, , 2006Schmitt andLupo, 2005, 2016), and the timing and nature of this transformation is largely matched by regional plant records (Louderback and Rhode, 2009;Rhode, 2000Rhode, , 2016Rhode and Louderback, 2015).…”

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On early-Holocene moisture and small-mammal histories in the Bonneville basin, Western United States

Schmitt

Lupo

2017

The Holocene

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Comparisons of Bonneville basin small-mammal skeletal assemblages from low-elevation caves with a collection from an upper piedmont rock shelter support Oviatt et al.'s hypothesis that early-Holocene moisture may have been the result of groundwater discharge rather than precipitation and runoff. After cool and moist late-Pleistocene environs were replaced by warmer and drier Holocene climates, low-elevation small-mammal communities increased in taxonomic richness and evenness and continued to support large numbers of rodent and leporid species well-adapted to mesic contexts. At the same time, the more upland small-mammal community along the Bonneville shoreline on the basin's margin experienced declines in richness and evenness and the extirpation of a number of mesic-adapted mammals. Overall differences in the composition of these early-Holocene assemblages suggest the basin bottom sustained moist and energetically auspicious habitats considerably longer than regional adjacent uplands, and it is possible that this lowelevation moisture was the result of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville groundwater discharge.

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Holocene mammalian change in the central Columbia Basin of eastern Washington state, USA

Cited by 4 publications

References 68 publications

Late Holocene Marshall Islands Archaeological Tuna Records Provide Proxy Evidence for ENSO Variability in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean

Late Holocene Marshall Islands Archaeological Tuna Records Provide Proxy Evidence for ENSO Variability in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean

The Late Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna of Oumm Qatafa Cave, Judean Desert: taxonomy, taphonomy and palaeoenvironment

On early-Holocene moisture and small-mammal histories in the Bonneville basin, Western United States

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