Animal resource use in ecological and economic context at Formative Period Cuello, Belize

2008 ◽  
Vol 191 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.Sorayya Carr ◽  
Arlene Fradkin
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Animal Resource

Ceramic Production and Exchange in Late/Terminal Formative Period Oaxaca

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur A. Joyce ◽  
Hector Neff ◽  
Mary S. Thieme ◽  
Marcus Winter ◽  
J. Michael Elam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Research Reactor ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Ceramic Production ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Chemical Signatures ◽  
Mixteca Alta ◽  
Ceramic Exchange ◽  
Valley Of Oaxaca ◽  
Production Practices

Patterns of Late/Terminal Formative period (ca. 500 B.C.–A.D. 300) ceramic exchange in Oaxaca are examined through instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA). Samples of 453 Late/Terminal Formative period sherds were submitted to the Missouri University Research Reactor for INAA to determine elemental composition. The sherds came from 20 excavated sites and two surveys in the following regions: the Valley of Oaxaca, Mixteca Alta, Mixteca Baja, lower Río Verde Valley, and Cuicatlán Cañada. Selected for the study were vessel fragments from three recognized paste categories: grayware (gris), fine brownware (café fino), and creamware (crema). We also sampled clays and sherds from known sources in four modern pottery-making towns in the Oaxaca Valley. The research adds to the INAA database for Oaxaca by identifying the chemical signatures of six source groupings that we can link to specific regions and, in two cases, to particular source zones within regions. The evidence from chemical composition and typology indicates continuity in resource use and production practices in both Atzompa and Coyotepec from pre-Hispanic into modern times. The data show that the exchange of ceramics in Late/Terminal Formative Oaxaca was multidirectional, with ceramics imported both to and from the Oaxaca Valley.

Animal Resource Use Related to Socioenvironmental Change among Mesa Verde Farmers

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura J. Ellyson ◽  
Lisa Nagaoka ◽  
Steve Wolverton
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Mesa Verde ◽  
Animal Resource

Improving studies of resource selection by understanding resource use

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRIAN N. KERTSON ◽  
JOHN M. MARZLUFF
Keyword(s):  
Home Range ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Resource Selection ◽  
Foraging Ecology ◽  
Puma Concolor ◽  
Bandwidth Selection ◽  
Gps Data ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Resource Utilization Functions ◽  
Animal Resource

SUMMARYUnderstanding the resource needs of animals is critical to their management and conservation. Resource utilization functions (RUFs) provide a framework to investigate animal-resource relationships by characterizing variation in the amount of resource use. In this context a ‘resource’ is any aspect of a species' fundamental niche that can be mapped throughout the area of investigation (such as study area or home range). Extensive global positioning system (GPS) data from 17 cougars (Puma concolor) demonstrate the utility and potential challenges of estimating RUFs within the home range for far-ranging species. Ninety-nine per cent utilization distributions (UDs) estimated using bivariate plug in, univariate least-squares cross-validation and reference bandwidth selection methods were compared. Distance to water, per cent clear-cut and regenerating forest, and slope were used to estimate cougar RUFs. UDs derived from GPS data were more refined, and plug-in UDs were least similar to UDs derived from other bandwidths. RUFs were resilient to variation in the smoothing parameter, with all methods yielding coefficients that largely reflected observations of foraging ecology and behaviour. Cougars were individualistic, but use was generally positively associated with the presence of regenerating forest and inversely associated with steep slopes. Advances in technology allow for greater accuracy and resolution of the UD, but software improvements and spatially explicit information on animal behaviour are needed to better understand resource use.

scholarly journals Animals as Raw Material in Beringia: Insights from the Site of Swan Point CZ4B, Alaska

2016 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 682-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
François B. Lanoë ◽  
Charles E. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Lithic Technology ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Animal Resource ◽  
Lines Of Evidence ◽  
Activity Areas

We document the use of organic raw material in late Pleistocene eastern Beringia through the study of the site of Swan Point CZ4b, in central Alaska. CZ4b is attributed to the Dyuktai culture and dates to about 14,000 cal B.P. We interpret the occupation as a specialized workshop dedicated to the production and maintenance of organic-based tools following three lines of evidence: (1) limited on-site consumption of megafauna, (2) diversity of organic raw materials and techniques used in processing them, and (3) spatial demarcation of specialized activity areas. Specialized workshops are located in the vicinity of naturally occurring accumulations of mammoth bones in both western and eastern Beringia and suggest similarities in animal resource use across Beringia for the Dyuktai culture. Organic technology was a major portion of Dyuktai technology in eastern Beringia, and its lack of visibility in archaeological assemblages is probably due to taphonomic reasons. Changes in the availability of organic raw material throughout the Late Pleistocene offer some implications for the evolution of lithic technology and material culture.

Differences in productivity QOL, and resource use in newly diagnosed and established irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients

2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A634-A634
Author(s):  
P JHINGRAN ◽  
J RICCI ◽  
M MARKOWITZ ◽  
S GORDON ◽  
A ASGHARIAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Irritable Bowel Syndrome ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Newly Diagnosed ◽  
Irritable Bowel

Stepping in the Shoes of Leaders of Populist Right-Wing Parties

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolanda Jetten ◽  
Rachel Ryan ◽  
Frank Mols
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Growth Condition ◽  
Baseline Condition ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Economic Context

Abstract. What narrative is deemed most compelling to justify anti-immigrant sentiments when a country’s economy is not a cause for concern? We predicted that flourishing economies constrain the viability of realistic threat arguments. We found support for this prediction in an experiment in which participants were asked to take on the role of speechwriter for a leader with an anti-immigrant message (N = 75). As predicted, a greater percentage of realistic threat arguments and fewer symbolic threat arguments were generated in a condition in which the economy was expected to decline than when it was expected to grow or a baseline condition. Perhaps more interesting, in the economic growth condition, the percentage realistic entitlements and symbolic threat arguments generated were higher than when the economy was declining. We conclude that threat narratives to provide a legitimizing discourse for anti-immigrant sentiments are tailored to the economic context.

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