The role of long-term demographic stress in the “collapse” of the Hohokam culture of
southern Arizona is an open question. If chronic imbalances between population levels and …

Some non-prey animals, including certain rodent and bird species, are particularly good
indicators of local environments, and are argued to provide an alternative way to look at the …

This paper describes and demonstrates the usefulness of calculating Euclidean distance to
determine both baseline hunting behavior on the site or regional level, and as a way of …

Results from the analysis of faunal remains collected from the archaeological site La Playa,
Sonora, Mexico, constitute the focus of this paper. Based on the identifications of the …

Historic records of arroyo formation have long been used as inferential tools for
reconstructing paleoclimate in the American Southwest. Archaeologists use these …

Abstract The Lagomorph Index, a calculation of the relative proportions of cottontail rabbits
and jackrabbits, is one of the most widely used analytical tools in Hohokam zooarchaeology …

Zooarchaeological data can provide invaluable information about prehistoric social, labor,
and economic organization. Ungulate age profiles have long been used to answer …

Despite great gains in knowledge about the Late Archaic/Early Agricultural period in the
Tucson Basin, understanding of the Middle Archaic period remains slim. This paper reports …

Dietary choices are one subset of the factors that affect the proportion of artiodactyls in
Southwestern faunal assemblages. This study of 23 Hohokam faunal assemblages suggests …