Paleoindian subsistence strategies and late Pleistocene paleoenvironments in the northeastern and southwestern United States: a tooth wear analysis

Rivals, Florent; Semprebon, Gina M.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2011.12.039

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“…The scores from the northern Mexican samples (Fig. 4.2) are similar to one previously known Bison antiquus score (1.56) from Plainview Quarry (BaPV), Hale County, Texas (Rivals and Semprebon, 2012), and are lower than the 1.83 score from Ingleside (BaIP), San Patricio County, Texas (Rivals and Semprebon, 2012), the 1.93 score from Blackwater Draw (BaBC), Clovis Pit, Curry County, New Mexico (Rivals and Semprebon, 2012), and the 1.88 score from Blackwater Draw (BaBD), Dry Cave, and Dark Canyon Cave, New Mexico and Lubbock Lake, and Scharbauer Ranch, Texas (Barrón-Ortíz, 2016). Also, our scores from northern Mexico are higher than the 1.31 score from Folsom Quarry, Union County, New Mexico (Rivals et al, 2007b).…”

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“…Color code: red=grazers; orange=nonstrict grazers; green=mixed feeders; blue=browsers. AA= Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758); ab= Alcelaphus buselaphus ; BaBC= Bison antiquus from Blackwater Draw, Clovis Pit, Curry County, New Mexico; BaBD= B. antiquus from Blackwater Draw, Dry Cave, and Dark Canyon Cave, New Mexico, and Lubbock Lake and Scharbauer Ranch, Texas (Barrón-Ortíz, 2016); BaFQ= B. antiquus from Folsom Quarry, New Mexico (Rivals et al, 2007b); BaIP= B. antiquus from Ingleside, San Patricio County; BaLC= B. antiquus from La Cinta-Portalitos; BaLP= B. antiquus from La Piedad-Santa Ana; BaPV= B. antiquus from Plainview Quarry, Hale County, Texas (Rivals and Semprebon, 2012); BaVV= B. antiquus from Viko Vijin; Cc= Cervus canadensis (Erxleben, 1777); cs= Ceratotherium simum (Burchell, 1817); Cs= Capricornis sumatraensis (Bechstein, 1799); ct= Connochaetes taurinus ; DB= Diceros bicornis (Linnaeus, 1758); dl= Damaliscus lunatus (Burchell, 1824); DS= Dicerorhinus sumatrensis (Fischer, 1814); eg= Equus grevyi ; Et= Eudorcas thomsonii (Günther, 1884); eq= Equus quagga Boddaert, 1785; GC= Giraffa camelopardalis (Linnaeus, 1758); he= Hippotragus equinus (Desmarest, 1804); hn= H. niger (Harris, 1838); ke= Kobus ellipsiprymnus ; Me= Aepyceros melampus (Lichtenstein, 1812); Ng= Nanger granti (Brooke, 1872); OH= Odocoileus hemionus (Rafinesque, 1817); OJ= Okapia johnstoni (Sclater, 1901); Om= Ovibos moschatus (Zimmermann, 1780); OV= Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann, 1780); PBb=plains bison, B. bison ; rr= Redunca redunca (Pallas, 1767); RS= Rhinoceros sondaicus (Desmarest, 1822); To= Taurotragus oryx (Pallas, 1766); Ts= Tragelaphus scriptus (Pallas, 1766); WBb=wood bison, B. bison .…”

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A combined mesowear analysis of MexicanBison antiquusshows a generalist diet with geographical variation

Díaz-Sibaja¹,

Jiménez-Hidalgo²,

Ponce-Saavedra³

et al. 2018

J. Paleontol.

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Bison antiquus Leidy, 1852 was one of the largest and most widely distributed megafaunal species during the Late Pleistocene in North America, giving rise to the modern plains bison in the middle Holocene. Despite the importance of the ancient bison, little is known about its feeding ecology. We employed a combination of extended mesowear, and mesowear III to infer the dietary preference and habitat use of three Mexican samples of B. antiquus. These included two northern samples—La Piedad-Santa Ana and La Cinta-Portalitos—from the Transmexican Volcanic Belt morphotectonic Province, as well as one southern sample—Viko Vijin—from the Sierra Madre del Sur morphotectonic province. We found that the northern Mexican samples were primarily nonstrict grazers, whereas the southern sample displays a pattern consistent with mixed feeding habits. This suggests variability among the diets of the bison from these samples, caused by different paleoenvironments. This evidence complements the paleoenvironmental reconstructions in the studied localities; for the northern samples, open prairies composed of patches of woodland or shrubland and, for the southern locality, a fluvial floodplain with short-lived vegetation. In both scenarios, grasses (Poaceae) were nondominant. The dietary habits of our samples of ancient bison in Mexico are the southernmost dietary inference for the species in North America and expand our knowledge of the dietary habits of B. antiquus during the Late Pleistocene.

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A combined mesowear analysis of MexicanBison antiquusshows a generalist diet with geographical variation

Díaz-Sibaja¹,

Jiménez-Hidalgo²,

Ponce-Saavedra³

et al. 2018

J. Paleontol.

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“…1) (Solounias and Semprebon 2002; Rivals and Deniaux 2003; Merceron et al 2004, 2005a, 2010a,b; Semprebon et al 2004a,b; Merceron and Ungar 2005; Rivals and Solounias 2007; Rivals et al 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014; Semprebon and Rivals 2007, 2012; Ungar et al 2007; 2012; DeMiguel et al 2008; Novello et al 2010; Solounias et al 2010; Rivals and Semprebon 2012; Scott 2012). Dental microwear studies of equine horses (subfamily Equinae) sample the same area (A2) (Hayek et al 1992; MacFadden et al 1999; Solounias and Semprebon 2002; Semprebon et al 2004a, 2011; Schultz et al 2007; Schulz and Fahlke 2009; Rivals et al 2010; Rivals et al in press; Solounias et al 2010; Wolf et al 2010; Rivals and Semprebon 2012; Fraser and Theodor 2013; Tütken et al 2013). However standardization of the sampling area is more challenging when working with non-equine perissodactyls.…”

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Comparative dental microwear of ruminant and perissodactyl molars: Implications for paleodietary analysis of rare and extinct ungulate clades

et al. 2015

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Dental microwear analyses of ungulates and other large herbivores rely on correlations of diet and microwear among extant ungulates, primarily ruminants. Microwear is considered a ‘taxon-free’ method of paleodietary analysis. The properties of food are associated with causality of microwear, but the possibility that heritable properties of the consumer (tooth morphologies, masticatory dynamics, enamel mechanical properties, digestive physiologies) may introduce bias is not considered. Using an observer blind method of light microscopy, we examined the distribution of microwear features on the molars of eight species of ruminants and perissodactyls. Grazing and browsing ruminants had statistically different numbers of scratches forming discrete data clusters. Perissodactyls differ in the numbers of scratches and pits but without discrete browser and grazer clusters. Microwear features were distributed homogeneously across ruminant molars and strongly predictive of diet from the labial edge of the molar to the lingual edge. Microwear was heterogeneously distributed across perissodactyl molars with more pits on the labial edge and more scratches on the lingual edge. In perissodactyls, microwear sampled from the labial edge was strongly predictive of diet, while microwear sampled from other areas were not. Discriminant function analyses of microwear assigned individual molars to diets (browser and grazer) and clades (ruminant and perissodactyl) with similar success (70–73%) indicating that phylogeny and diet influence microwear equally. Rhino microwear was more sensitive to clade membership while other perissodactyl microwear was more sensitive to diet. Although it is not clear what heritable variables may phylogenetically bias dental microwear, extant ruminants may not be appropriate models for the microwear of other large herbivores.

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“…It has become commonplace to publish paleodietary studies that combine microwear and mesowear. Some studies either reported no disagreement between these proxies or did not comment on the extent of congruence (DeMiguel et al 2008, 2011; Semprebon and Rivals 2007, 2010; Rivals et al 2009, 2013; Merceron et al 2010b; Rivals and Semprebon 2012; Tütken et al 2013). However, many studies report some amount of disagreement between mesowear and microwear (Franz-Odendaal and Solounias 2004; Rivals et al 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011; Schulz et al 2007; Wolf et al 2010; Semprebon et al 2016).…”

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Microwear–mesowear congruence and mortality bias in rhinoceros mass-death assemblages

Mihlbachler¹,

Campbell²,

Chen³

et al. 2017

Paleobiology

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Although we do not know the cause of death of most fossil animals, mortality is often associated with ecological stress due to seasonality and other stochastic events (droughts, storms, volcanism) that may have caused shifts in feeding ecology preceding death. In these instances, dental microwear, which reflects feeding ecology in a narrow window of time, may provide a biased view of diet. Mesowear, another dental-wear proxy based on the morphology of worn cusps, requires macroscopic amounts of dental wear and reflects diet for a longer interval and may be less prone to bias from near-death ecological stress. We compared congruence between microwear and mesowear of North American, fossil rhinocerotid mass-death assemblages and collections of hunted modern rhinocerotids to test the hypothesis that fossil assemblages yield more incongruous microwear and mesowear data as a result of near-death ecological disturbances. In extant rhinos, both mesowear and microwear are associated with diet and height of the feeding environment. Mesowear and microwear in the modern rhinocerotid collections are statistically correlated, with strong relationships between average mesowear scores and labially distributed dental microwear. In contrast, a relationship between mesowear and microwear was not observed among the fossil rhinocerotid assemblages. Mesowear suggests that the fossil rhinos had low-abrasion diets, suggesting that they fed from clean, possibly tall vegetation. Some, but not all, mass-death assemblages produce microwear data with excessive scratches and/or pits compared with expectations based on mesowear results, suggesting that dental microwear was altered shortly before death in some but not all of the fossil assemblages. The dental-wear proxies available to paleoecologists provide a mosaic of dietary evidence reflecting diet over long (mesowear) and more abbreviated (microwear) periods of time that, together, provide a richer understanding of feeding ecology and its relationship to environment, seasonal change, and other ecological disturbances.

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Paleoindian subsistence strategies and late Pleistocene paleoenvironments in the northeastern and southwestern United States: a tooth wear analysis

Cited by 18 publications

References 60 publications

A combined mesowear analysis of MexicanBison antiquusshows a generalist diet with geographical variation

A combined mesowear analysis of MexicanBison antiquusshows a generalist diet with geographical variation

Comparative dental microwear of ruminant and perissodactyl molars: Implications for paleodietary analysis of rare and extinct ungulate clades

Microwear–mesowear congruence and mortality bias in rhinoceros mass-death assemblages

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