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Tending and drive hunting: A density-mediated attrition model can explain age profiles of white-tailed deer at Iroquoian village sites

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  • Suzanne Needs-Howarth
  • Alicia L. Hawkins

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In a 1993 paper, Noble and Crerar suggested, based on the age and sex distribution of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) longbones from four Attawandaron Iroquoian sites around the western end of Lake Ontario, that the contact-period Attawandaron were managing local deer populations, in response to the aboriginal trade in hides. Having observed similar patterns of differential preservation of elements and epiphyseal fusion at nearby Iroquoian sites that are not ascribed to the Attawandaron, and which pre-date the hypothesised trading period, we argue that these patterns may instead relate to bone density and/or vulnerability to taphonomic effects of late-fusing epiphyses. We further support our argument through age profiles based on dental eruption and wear.

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  • Suzanne Needs-Howarth & Alicia L. Hawkins, 2017. "Tending and drive hunting: A density-mediated attrition model can explain age profiles of white-tailed deer at Iroquoian village sites," Environmental Archaeology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(2), pages 175-188, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:yenvxx:v:22:y:2017:i:2:p:175-188
    DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2016.1154238
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