At the Cutting Edge: Using Thin Sectioning to Determine Season of Death of the European Oyster, Ostrea edulis

Milner, Nicola

doi:10.1006/jasc.2000.0618

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“…rapid growth). is hypothesis could be resolved by examining incremental growth structures in combination with stable isotopic analyses as measures of seasonality (see for example Luebbers 1978;Lightfoot and Cerrato 1988;Milner 2001;Mannino et al 2003;Jones et al 2005;Stephens et al 2008).…”

Section: Implications For Population Size and Mobilitymentioning

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Life on the Margins : An Archaeological Investigation of Late Holocene Economic Variability, Blue Mud Bay, Northern Australia

Faulkner¹

2013

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terra australis 38Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present. (2000) Volume 16 List of volumes in Terra Australis

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Section: Implications For Population Size and Mobilitymentioning

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Life on the Margins : An Archaeological Investigation of Late Holocene Economic Variability, Blue Mud Bay, Northern Australia

Faulkner¹

2013

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“…Bourque et al, 1978;Lieberman, 1994;Lieberman & Meadow, 1992;Lubinski, 2001) and molluscs (e.g. Ham & Irvine, 1975;Koike, 1975;Milner, 2001), whereas fish (see below) have received less attention, thus hampering the full exploration of the seasonality issue. Moreover, it has proven to be vital that sufficiently large modern samples are used of the species under study, in order to document the increment changes throughout the year (cf.…”

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Seasonality only works in certain parts of the year: the reconstruction of fishing seasons through otolith analysis

Neer

Ervynck

Bolle³

et al. 2004

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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Seasonality estimations using incremental data usually suffer from small sample sizes and from the lack of comparison with sufficiently large modern samples. The present contribution reports on incremental studies carried out on large assemblages of plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) from a late medieval fishing village (Raversijde, Belgium) on the North Sea coast. In an attempt to refine previous seasonality estimates made for this site, and to expand conclusions concerning general methodology, extensive monthly samples of modern otoliths of these species, caught within the North Sea, have also been investigated. The modern material shows that the timing of the seasonal changes in the edge type (hyaline or opaque) of the otoliths is extremely variable and that it is dependent on the fishing ground, the year considered, and the age of the fish. It also appears that the increase of the marginal increment thickness is highly variable, to such an extent that the thickness of the last increment of a single otolith is mostly useless for seasonality estimation. Where large archaeological otolith assemblages can be studied, preferably from single depositional events, seasonality determination becomes possible on the condition, however, that the archaeological assemblage corresponds to fish that were captured during their period of fast growth. The growth ring study on the otoliths from Raversijde shows that plaice fishing took place in spring and that it was preceded by a haddock fishing season, probably in late winter/early spring.

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“…Thus, oxygen isotope values procured from these structures potentially reflect the ambient environment at the time of the organism's death. These signals can be aligned to seasons via comparisons with modern control samples, generated using data from modern specimens, water samples and observed environmental records, allowing an accurate determination of season of death/capture (Andrus 2011;Milner 2001). When applied throughout archaeological assemblages, high-resolution histories of occupation can be generated, in some cases allowing researchers to approach higher order interpretations of population dynamics including mobility and demography (Burchell et al 2013a, b, c;McManus et al 2013;Thompson and Andrus 2013).…”

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“…Some authors have gone so far as to reject all material from such habitats, stating that their inherent complexities make them too difficult or inaccurate to analyse (e.g. Godfrey 1988;Milner 2001). However, a growing body of research has demonstrated the efficacy of utilising oxygen isotopes in areas with more complex temperature-water constitution relationships, particularly when supplemented with high-resolution growth feature analysis, comparative modern baselines or further stable isotope analysis (Andrus and Crowe 2000;Burchell et al 2013a, b, c;Jones et al 2004Jones et al , 2005Kennett and Voorhies 1995;Kirby et al 1998).…”

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“…Although research employing sclerochronology to characterise palaeoenvironments and their effects on human behaviour is largely evidenced by isotopic signals and growth patterning of archaeological material, a contextual framework must be established to accurately parse this information (Andrus 2011;Jones and Quitmyer 1996;Mannino et al 2003;Milner 2001). Without comparative data, results derived from archaeological material become difficult to accurately interpret.…”

Section: Understanding Localised Environmental Impacts On Shellfishmentioning

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Sclerochronological analysis of archaeological mollusc assemblages: methods, applications and future prospects

Twaddle

Ulm

Hinton

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Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Accreting skeletal tissues found in bone, teeth, otoliths and molluscan shell act as sensitive recorders of local environmental and climatic conditions. Owing to their robust nature, ubiquity and abundance in the archaeological record as well as the potential for high-resolution data acquisition, the accreting skeletal tissues of archaeological molluscs are increasingly employed as palaeoenvironmental proxies. Researchers have chiefly utilised such proxies to extend instrumental records of environmental conditions through palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and explore the impact of environmental and climatic change on human populations. However, the use of environmental proxies from the archaeological record can be hampered by a number of methodological challenges including inadequate sampling strategies, appropriate calibration, the use of inappropriate proxies and the broad extrapolation of localised results. This paper reviews the use of molluscan shell from archaeological contexts as palaeoenvironmental proxies. We focus on the application of sclerochronology-a suite of high-resolution physical and geochemical data recovery methods widely used in conjunction with molluscan shell. This paper presents an overview of the potential of these techniques in approaching more nuanced understandings of human-environment interactions and how they can be more successfully incorporated into archaeological research.

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At the Cutting Edge: Using Thin Sectioning to Determine Season of Death of the European Oyster, Ostrea edulis

Cited by 38 publications

References 5 publications

Life on the Margins : An Archaeological Investigation of Late Holocene Economic Variability, Blue Mud Bay, Northern Australia

Life on the Margins : An Archaeological Investigation of Late Holocene Economic Variability, Blue Mud Bay, Northern Australia

Seasonality only works in certain parts of the year: the reconstruction of fishing seasons through otolith analysis

Sclerochronological analysis of archaeological mollusc assemblages: methods, applications and future prospects

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