This paper examines the temporal distribution of 163 distinct species recovered from 21 well-dated Holocene age archaeological sites in the Ohio River valley to determine patterns of faunal resource procurement and their response to periods of climate change. Climate change proxies include bison, long-billed curlew, pine marten, porcupine, prairie vole, and swamp rabbit. While the rice rat may be a proxy of climate change, its initial appearance in the Archaic cultural period co-occurs with storable starchy and oily seed crops such as erect knotweed, little barley, marsh elder, maygrass, and sunflower. Subsistence proxies that transcend climate change include variety of aquatic (bass/sunfish, buffalo, channel catfish, freshwater drum, gar, mussels, snails, snapping and spiny softshell turtles, and river redhorse sucker), avian (blue-wing teal, Canada goose, and turkey), and terrestrial species (dog, eastern cotton-tail, elk, gray and fox squirrels, opossum, raccoon, timber rattlesnake, and woodchuck). Caldwell’s Primary Forest Efficiency remains a valid theoretical model of Holocene subsistence strategy in the Ohio River valley.

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俄亥俄河谷全新世动物群获取和物种对气候变化的响应

本文研究了从俄亥俄河谷 21 个年代久远的全新世考古遗址中恢复的 163 个不同物种的时间分布，以确定动物资源获取模式及其对气候变化时期的响应。气候变化代表包括野牛、长嘴鹬、松貂、豪猪、草原田鼠和沼泽兔。虽然稻鼠可能是气候变化的代表，但它在古代文化时期的最初出现与可储存的淀粉和油性种子作物同时出现，如直立虎杖、小大麦、沼泽接骨木、梅草和向日葵。超越气候变化的生存代表包括各种水生动物（鲈鱼/翻车鱼、水牛、鲶鱼、淡水鼓、雀鳝、贻贝、蜗牛、鲷鱼和多刺软壳龟以及河红马吸盘）、鸟类（蓝翅青色、加拿大鹅和火鸡）和陆生物种（狗、东部棉尾、麋鹿、灰松鼠和狐狸松鼠、负鼠、浣熊、木材响尾蛇和土拨鼠）。考德威尔的原始森林效率仍然是俄亥俄河谷全新世生存战略的有效理论模型。