Evaluating chloroplast DNA in prehistoric Texas coprolites: medicinal, dietary, or ambient ancient DNA?

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1748-1755

  Reinhard, Karl J ^a   Chaves, Sergio M ^b   Jones, John G ^c   Iñiguez, Alena M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient plant residue; Coprolite; Molecular biology; Pollen concentration; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHLOROPLAST; COPROLITE; DIET; DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PALYNOLOGY; PREHISTORIC;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; FOUQUIERIA; RHAMNUS; SOLANUM;

EID: 42149176599     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2007.11.013     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Adovasio J.M., and Fry G.F. Prehistoric psychotropic drug use in northeastern Mexico and Trans-Pecos, Texas. Econ. Bot. 30 (1976) 94-96
2. Bennet K.D., and Parducci L. DNA from pollen: principles and potential. Holocene 16 (2006) 1031-1034
3. Boyd C.E., and Dering J.P. Medicinal and hallucinogenic plants identified in the sediments and pictographs of the Lower Pecos, Texas Archaic. Antiquity 70 (1996) 256-275
4. Chandler C.K. A stone pipe from the lower Pecos Region of Val Verde County, Texas. La Tierra 17 (1990) 31-34
5. Chandler C.K. Additional stone pipes from the lower Pecos River in Val Verde County, Texas. La Tierra 19 (1992) 34-37
6. Chandler C.K., and Boyd J.B. A decorated stone pipe from Val Verde County, Texas. La Tierra 22 (1995) 35-37
7. Chaves S.A.M., and Reinhard K.J. Critical analysis of prehistoric evidence of medicinal plant use, Piauí, Brazil. J. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 237 (2006) 110-118
8. Danielson D.R., and Reinhard K.J. Human dental microwear caused by calcium oxalate phytoliths in prehistoric diet of the lower Pecos region, Texas. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 107 (1998) 297-304
9. Davis W.B. The Mammals of Texas (1974), Texas A&M University, College Station
10. Dean D.W. The science of coprolite analysis: the view from Hinds Cave. J. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 237 (2006) 67-79
11. Dering, J.P., 1979. Pollen and Plant Macrofossil Vegetation Record Recovered from Hinds Cave, Val Verde County, Texas. M.A. thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station.
12. Edwards, S.K., 1990. Investigations of Late Archaic Coprolites: Pollen and Macrofossil Remains from Hinds Cave (41VV456), Val Verde County, Texas. M.S. thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station.
13. Lord, K.J., 1984. The Zooarchaeology of Hinds Cave (41 VV 456). Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin.
14. Maher L.J. Statistics for microfossil concentration measurements employing samples spiked with marker grains. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 32 (1981) 153-191
15. Pacini E., Taylor P.E., Singh M.B., and Knox R.B. Development of plastids in pollen and tapetum of rye-grass, Lolium perenne L. Ann. Bot. 70 (1992) 179-188
16. Paffetti D., Vettori C., Caramelli D., Vernesi C., Lari M., Paganelli A., Ladislav P., and Giannini R. Unexpected presence of Fagus orientalis complex in Italy as inferred by 45,000-year-old pollen samples from Venice lagoon. BMC Evol. Biol. 7 Suppl. 2 (2007) S6
17. Poinar H.N., Kuch M., Sobolik K.D., Barnes I., Stankiewicz A.B., Kuder T., Spaulding W.G., Bryant V.M., Cooper A., and Pääbo S. A molecular analysis of dietary diversity for three Archaic Native Americans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98 (2001) 4317-4322
18. Powell A.M. Trees and Shrubs of Trans-Pecos Texas Including Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains National Parks (1988), Big Bend Natural History Association, Big Bend National Park
19. Reinhard, K.J., 1988. Diet, Parasitism, and Anemia in the Prehistoric Southwest. Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas A&M University, College Station.
20. Reinhard K.J. Patterns of diet, parasitism, and anemia in prehistoric west North America. In: Stuart-Macadam P.S., and Kent S. (Eds). Diet, Demography, and Disease: Changing Perspectives on Anemia (1992), Aldine de Gruyter, New York 219-258
21. Reinhard K.J., Hamilton D.L., and Hevly R.H. Use of pollen concentration in paleopharmacology: coprolite evidence of medicinal plants. J. Ethnobiol. 11 (1991) 117-134
22. Reinhard K.J., Daniels M., Danielson D.R., and Chaves S.M. Multidisciplinary coprolite analysis. In: Geib P.R., and Keller D.R. (Eds). Bighorn Cave: Test Excavation of a Stratified Dry Shelter, Mojave County, Arizona (2002), Bilby Research Center, Flagstaff 135-152
23. Reinhard K.J., Edwards S.K., Damon T.R., and Meier D.K. Pollen concentration analysis of Ancestral Pueblo dietary variation. J. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 237 (2006) 92-109
24. Reinhard K.J., LeRoy-Toren S., and Danielson D.R. Salmon Ruin coprolites: San Juan diet. In: Reed P.F. (Ed). Thirty-Five Years of Archaeological Research at Salmon Ruins Vol. 3 (2006), Center for Desert Archaeology and Salmon Ruins Museum, Tucson 875-888
25. Reinhard K.J., Szuter C., and Ambler J.R. Hunter-gatherer use of small animal food resources. Internat. J. Osteoarchaeol. 17 (2006) 416-428
26. Sangwan R.S., and Sangwan-Norreel B.S. Ultrastructural cytology of plastids in pollen grains of certain androgenic and non-androgenic plants. Protoplasma 138 (1987) 11-22
27. Saunders, J.W., 1986. The Economy of Hinds Cave. Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
28. Schmitz U.K., and Kowallik K.V. Why are plastids inherited maternally in Epilobium?. Plant Sci. 53 (1987) 139-146
29. Shafer, H.J., Bryant, V.M., Jr., 1977 Archeological and Botanical Studies at Hinds Cave, Val Verde County, Texas. Annual Report to the National Science Foundation. On File with the Texas A&M University, Anthropological Laboratory, as Special Series 1.
30. Sobolik K.D. The importance of pollen concentration values from coprolites: an analysis of southwest Texas samples. Palynology 12 (1988) 201-221
31. Sodmergen Y.Y., Kuroiwa T., and Hu S.Y. Cytoplasmic DNA apportionment and plastid differentiation during male gametophyte development in Pelargonium zonale. Sex. Plant Reprod. 7 (1994) 51-56
32. Stock, J.A., 1983. The Diet of Hinds Cave (41 VV456), Val Verde County, Texas: The Coprolite Evidence. M.S. thesis, Texas A&M University, College Station.
33. Williams-Dean, G., 1978. Ethnobotany, and Cultural Ecology of Prehistoric Man in Southwest Texas. Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas A&M University, College Station.