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The Effects of the Hypsithermal on Prehistoric Foraging Efficiency in Missouri

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Steve Wolverton
Steve Wolverton*
Affiliation:
University of North Texas, Department of Geography & Program in Environmental Science, P.O. Box 305279, Denton, TX 76203 (sjw0095@unt.edu)
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Abstract

Archaeological studies of temporal changes in human predation strategy using foraging theory tend to focus on the role of overexploitation of important prey resources and resulting resource depression. An alternative use of the prey-choice model framed under foraging theory is to investigate the influence of environmental changes, such as increases in climate stress, on prey availability. Environmental change can be expected to produce many of the same effects on human predation strategy as resource depression. Here analytical techniques typically used to study the effects of over-predation and resource depression caused by humans are used to monitor their response to fluctuations in prey availability related to climate change during the Holocene in Missouri. Data and interpretations presented here add to the growing body of zooarchaeological foraging theory literature implicating environmental change as a critical factor in human diet.

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Los estudios arqueológicos de cambios temporales en estrategia humana depredatoria que se basan en la teoría de forrajeo suelen concentrarse en el papel de la sobreexplotación de importantes presas de caza que resultan en depresión de recursos. Una alternativa para el uso del modelo predatorio-preferido enmarcado bajo la teoría de forrajeo es el investigar la influencia de los cambios ambientales, como el incremento de estrés en el clima, en la disponibilidad de presas. Es de esperase que los cambios ambientales produzcan muchos de los mismos efectos en la estrategia humana depredatoria así como en la depresión de recursos. Aquí técnicas analíticas típicamente usadas para estudiar los efectos de la sobre depredación y depresión de recursos causados por humanos son usadas para supervisar la respuesta a la fluctuación en la disponibilidad de presas relacionadas al cambio ambiental durante el Holoceno en Missouri. Los datos y la interpretación presentada aquí amplían el cuerpo de la literatura sobre teoría forrajera zooarqueológica, implicando los cambios ambientales como factores críticos en la dieta humana.

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American Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 91 - 106
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 2005

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