Selective Faunal Provisioning in the Southern Highlands of Formative Ecuador

Abstract

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Canidae volume bone mineral density values: an application to sites in western Canada

“…However, density mediated attrition processes did not act upon the entire canid skeleton or a correlation would have been found between the %MAUs of the recovered fragments and the density values of the (potential) full skeleton. The difficulty, of course, lies in determining the processes which removed some elements, or fragments of elements, from the archaeological record between the time when (potential) full skeletons existed and particular fragments are recovered during excavation [57,58]. We suggest that Bushfield West was principally affected by fragmentation while at Long Creek and Sanderson transportation played a major role.…”

“…We identified and tallied the frequency of each scan site represented by the canid remains recovered from each of the archaeological sites. We counted each scan site as being either present or absent, rather than grading their degree of presence on a quartile basis as Stahl has done [57,58]. This information is presented as %MAUs in Tables 5e8 below.…”

Biodiversidad y endemismo de los caracoles terrestres Megalobulimus y Systrophia en la Amazonia occidental

“…El consumo de caracoles del género Megalobulimus ya había sido reportado en 1895 por Pilsbry para Ecuador. Pero también se han encontrado evidencias de su uso por pobladores prehispánicos, no sólo de la amazonia, sino también de Ecuador (Stahl 2005), Perú (Rodriguez 2006), y Brasil (Mello & Coelho 1989), inclusive de que fue transportado a la costa del Perú hace más de 5 mil años, como dan fe los restos encontrados en Caral (Shady 2000).…”

Adventive Vertebrates and Historical Ecology in the Pre-Columbian Neotropics

“…Living, dead, intact, and disassembled animals were transported by land and sea over vast areas of the pre-Columbian Neotropics for many reasons [40][41][42]. Specimens of exotic birds from lowland areas on either side of the Andes have been identified in high elevation contexts of northern Ecuador dating to before the time of Christ.…”