Stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen as tracers for paleo-diet reconstruction

HP Schwarcz, MJ Schoeninger - Handbook of Environmental Isotope …, 2012 - Springer
The isotopic compositions of the tissues of animals and humans are determined by the
proportions of the various nutrients which they consume. This allows us to determine how …

Wari's imperial influence on local Nasca diet: the stable isotope evidence

CM Kellner, MJ Schoeninger - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2008 - Elsevier
The highland Wari Empire established a presence within the Nasca region of south coastal
Peru during the Middle Horizon period. To clarify the nature of this interaction, we analyzed …

Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management

C Conrad - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2022 - Springer
Penning turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) in the Ancestral Pueblo American
Southwest/Mexican Northwest (SW/NW) involved the creation or use of a variety of spaces …

Bone isotopes, eggshell and turkey husbandry at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo

C Conrad, EL Jones, SD Newsome… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Studies of archaeofaunal turkey and eggshell remains have identified a clear and consistent
pattern of turkey husbandry across the prehistoric Southwest. Domestic turkeys appear to …

[HTML][HTML] Turkeys on the fringe: Variable husbandry in “marginal” areas of the prehistoric American Southwest

EL Jones, C Conrad, SD Newsome, BM Kemp… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Previous research reporting stable carbon (δ 13 C) and nitrogen (δ 15 N) isotope values of
prehistoric turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) remains from the American Southwest indicates that …

[PDF][PDF] What makes a dog? Stable isotope analysis and human-canid relationships at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo

V Monagle, C Conrad, EL Jones - Open Quaternary, 2018 - academia.edu
Domesticated animals in the prehispanic American Southwest/Mexican Northwest
functioned in many roles, but these roles seem to have varied across time and space. In this …

Sustainable small-scale agriculture in semi-arid environments

KA Spielmann, M Nelson, S Ingram, MA Peeples - Ecology and Society, 2011 - JSTOR
For at least the past 8000 years, small-scale farmers in semi-arid environments have had to
mitigate shortfalls in crop production due to variation in precipitation and stream flow. To …

The effects of the industrial transition on lower limb bone structure: A comparison of the inhabitants of Pecos Pueblo and present‐day Indigenous peoples of New …

CB Ruff, IJ Wallace, C Toya, MAP Muñoz… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objectives Comparisons between Indigenous peoples over time and within a
particular geographic region can shed light on the impact of environmental transitions on the …

Dietary correlates to the development of Nasca social complexity (AD 1–750)

CM Kellner, MJ Schoeninger - Latin American Antiquity, 2012 - cambridge.org
This study examines the relationship between agricultural intensification and social
complexity in past societies using a diachronic, contextualized population, the Nasca of the …

Urban to the bone: Isotopic and faunal dietary data from Formative-period Cerro Jazmín, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, México

VP Rodríguez, CM Kellner, RHP de León - Journal of Archaeological …, 2020 - Elsevier
We investigate the dietary impact of urbanism on the population of Cerro Jazmín, a Late and
Terminal Formative urban center in the Mixteca Alta region of Mexico (300 BC-AD 300). We …