Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management

Conrad, Cyler

doi:10.1007/s10816-021-09531-9

Title: Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management

Journal Article · 03 August 2021 · Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-021-09531-9 · OSTI ID:1811925

Abstract 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 and contexts throughout AD 1–1600 and into the post-contact era. Turkey pens, or captivity, occur through simple tethering, reuse of abandoned pit houses or surface rooms, or creation of pens within villages, plazas, and elsewhere. Turkey dung, droppings, and eggshells are fundamental for determining the presence or absence of pens at archaeological sites. In this paper, I review the archaeological record for turkey pens and focus on three main questions: (1) how are turkey pens identified in the SW/NW, (2) if turkey pen construction or evidence for turkey captivity shifts through time, and (3) what the record of turkey penning informs us regarding the long-term human management of these birds and global perspectives on human–bird/human–animal management. Ancestral Pueblo peoples created an adaptive and flexible strategy for turkey penning, which successfully integrated these birds into ceremonial and socioeconomic processes for approximately 1600 years.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001

OSTI ID:: 1811925

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-21-21466; PII: 9531

Journal Information:: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Journal Name: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 29; ISSN 1072-5369

Publisher:: Springer Science + Business MediaCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: Netherlands

Language:: English

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