Conference presentation
Costly Gobbling: Raising Turkeys in the Central Mesa Verde Area
Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting (Vancouver, British Columbia, 2017)
03/2017
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/12240
Abstract
This presentation focuses on comparisons of the Central Mesa Verde (CMV) and Northern Rio Grande (NRG) areas. Goals of the study included: 1.) Use NISP counts to assess relative abundance of turkey and artiodactyl bones in Central Mesa Verde (CMV) and N. Rio Grande (NRG) areas. 2.) Weight faunal groups by protein yield to assess relative nutritional contributions of turkeys and artiodactyls. 3.) Estimate costs (in extra maize production) of raising food turkeys. 4.) Evaluate “rigidity trap” hypothesis for replacement of deer by turkey.
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- Title
- Costly Gobbling: Raising Turkeys in the Central Mesa Verde Area
- Creators
- William D. Lipe (Author)Laura Ellyson (Author)Kyle Bocinsky (Author)Robin Lyle (Author)R. G. Matson (Author)
- Conference
- Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting (Vancouver, British Columbia, 2017)
- Academic Unit
- Cedar Mesa Research Materials
- Identifiers
- 99900502111601842
- Copyright
- openAccess ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation