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Game Resources, Social Interaction, and the Ecological Footprint in Southwest New Mexico

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Humans have modified their environments for millennia, but the role of these impacts on economic and social strategies among communities can be difficult to assess. This is due in part to the difficulty of quantifying impacts, which hinders our evaluations of the effects of different resource acquisition strategies and impairs attempts to understand competing demands on resources and their effects on the evolution of social relations. In this paper we employ footprint analysis, a tool used in ecology, to assess the impact of prehistoric subsistence farming communities on the environment, specifically faunal resources. We use footprint analysis to quantify the impact of various strategies of game acquisition by Classic Mimbres period (AD 1000-1130) farmers in the North American Southwest. Assessments are then employed in identifying changes in social relations among communities that may have contributed to settlement changes in the region.

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Nelson, M.C., Schollmeyer, K.G. Game Resources, Social Interaction, and the Ecological Footprint in Southwest New Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 10, 69–110 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024525428186

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