Comment on “Size matters: 3-mm sieves do not increase richness in a fishbone assemblage from Arrawarra I, an Aboriginal Australian shell midden on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, Australia” by Vale and Gargett

Gobalet, Kenneth W.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2004.11.002

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“…Many factors weaken the signals of such proxies, for example their unknown taphonomic history, their inhomogeneity or the precision of recovery. Fish remains from sieved samples significantly differ from hand-collected samples, which yield only few but large specimens (Jones 1983 ; Bartosiewicz 1988 ; Cao et al 2002 ; Gobalet 2005 ; Zohar and Belmaker 2005 ; Chao et al 2009 ). Therefore, screening of sieved sediment samples is a precondition for the reliable recovery of fish remains, independent of diverse taphonomic potentials of preservation in various contexts.…”

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Fish remains as a source to reconstruct long-term changes of fish communities in the Austrian and Hungarian Danube

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The main objective of this paper is to investigate how archaeological fish remains and written historical records can contribute to the reconstruction of long-term developments of fish communities along the Austrian and Hungarian Danube. Although such approaches are sensitive to various factors, the chronological subdivision and relative quantification of proxy data demonstrate environmental and faunal changes from Prehistory onwards. Intensification of fisheries, decline of large specimens and massive exploitation of small and young fish point to increasing pressure along the chronological sequence towards Early Modern times. One result of this impact was the establishment of regulations and laws to protect such fish. At the same time, the rise of aquaculture and common carp cultivation can be viewed as another upshot of human impact on the Danube’s environment. Finally, the massive import of salted marine fish reflects a compensation for the undersupply caused by overexploitation of the Danube fish fauna and points to the growing demand for fish as food in late medieval and Early Modern times.

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Fish remains as a source to reconstruct long-term changes of fish communities in the Austrian and Hungarian Danube

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“…The predominance of fish vertebrae in shell middens have also been recorded elsewhere around the world, such as at Ingane River Mouth in Kwa-Zulu Natal (Schoute-Vanneck and Walsh 1959), Arrawarra I in New South Wales (Gobalet 2005;Vale and Gargett 2002), at a large number of middens on the Central Californian Coast (Gobalet and Jones 1995), at CA-SBA-2057, a midden on the Santa Barbara Coast of California (Rick and Erlandson 2000), Oughtymore in Ulster (Mallory et al 1984), a few shell middens in Southeast Queensland (Hlinka et al 2002), in the Arabian Gulf (Beech 2002), to name but a few. In some instances vertebrae were underrepresented in middens, as at the Neolithic site of Konam-Ri in Korea, where the lack of vertebrae might be due to transportation of the fleshy parts including the vertebral column elsewhere (Norton et al 1999).…”

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confidence: 61%

“…Differential bone density affects the survival of elements (Butler and Chatters 1994;Lam and Pearson 2005). Excavation and sampling methodology and sieve sizes are further factors that can bias assemblages (Gifford 1981;Gobalet 2005;Vale and Gargett 2002;Zohar and Belmaker 2005). It is not always possible to distinguish between cultural and natural processes as both can leave similar traces (Andrews and Cook 1985;Behrensmeyer et al 1986;Broughton et al 2006;Butler 1993).…”

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“…The absence of smaller fish bones is partly due to the larger sieve sizes used in the Singer and Wymer excavations (¼ inch for Howieson's Poort material and ½ inch screens for the rest, as opposed to the 2 and 3mm sieves used in Deacon's excavation) (Singer and Wymer 1982). A large sieve size can result in considerable loss of material as fish and other small faunal remains pass through the sieve (Erlandson 2001;Gargett and Vale 2005;Gobalet 2005;Vale and Gargett 2002). In several instances only samples of finds were retained (Voigt 1982), and vertebrate fauna that were considered taxonomically unidentifiable were discarded during preliminary sorting in the field (Klein 1976).…”

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Marine fish exploitation during the Middle and Later Stone Age of South Africa

Niekerk¹

2011

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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access to the Blombos Cave and Blombosfontein 1 and 6 materials and to Hilary Deacon for access to the Klasies River main site fish remains. Sarah Wurz and Petro Keene were very helpful with regards to access of material curated at the IZIKO South African Museum, for which I am grateful, and it was a pleasure working with both of them.Thanks are due to Paul Cowley from the South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) who very kindly and with considerable effort supplied me with a number of species that were lacking from my comparative collection. Special thanks to Nicholas Henshilwood and Morgan Wilson for their enthusiastic help in augmenting the comparative collection with their fishing expeditions. Drs P. and E. Heemstra, along with the publications department of the SAIAB, kindly gave me permission to use the illustrations of the fish species from their book (2004) Coastal Fishes of Southern Africa.

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“…Bones from small fish are notoriously under represented, if not completely missing, from ca. >6.4 mm dry-screened faunal assemblages (Wheeler & Jones, 1989;Payne, 1992;Gordon, 1993;Quitmyer, 2004;Wake, 2004;Gobalet, 2005;Nagaoka, 2005, Zohar & Belmaker, 2005. The fish bone assemblage from Poplar Forest is no exception; of the 186 fish bones identified to at least family, only one catfish (Ameiurus sp.)…”

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Taphonomy and Fish Bones from an Enslaved African American Context at Poplar Forest, Virginia, USA

Klippel

Synstelien

Heath

2011

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Se identifican restos faunísticos en el subsuelo de una fosa en Poplar Forest, Virginia, EE.UU. Un programa de recuperación exhaustivo ha permitido recuperar más de 35,000 huesos y dientes, en su mayoría alterados, en apenas un tercio de metro cúbico de relleno. Los restos de pescado, procedentes de la época de esclavitud previa a la Guerra Civil Americana, fueron analizados con especial énfasis en los aspectos tafonómicos. Los depósitos de relleno, con pH superiores 7.0, posibilitaron una excelente conservación de los restos óseos, que permitió detectar huesos de pescado roídos por ratones (Mus musculus) y ratas comensales (Rattus sp.). Estas piezas hubieran pasado desapercibidas en colecciones con peor estado de conservación. El gran número de mordiscos en los restos de pescado arqueológico, así como datos de experimentos realizados con ratas silvestres, indican que una gran parte de la ictiofauna de Poplar Forest pudo haber sido consumida por roedores. Los cálculos de las relaciones alométricas entre las tallas de los huesos y de los peces vivos, evidencian que pequeñas caballas (Scomber scombrus), y arenques (Clupea harengus) algo mayores sirvieron de alimento a los esclavos. Es más probable que los esclavos hayan pescado el pequeño bagre de agua dulce y los pececillos que podrían encontrarse en los arroyos de los alrededores.

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Comment on “Size matters: 3-mm sieves do not increase richness in a fishbone assemblage from Arrawarra I, an Aboriginal Australian shell midden on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, Australia” by Vale and Gargett

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

Fish remains as a source to reconstruct long-term changes of fish communities in the Austrian and Hungarian Danube

Fish remains as a source to reconstruct long-term changes of fish communities in the Austrian and Hungarian Danube

Marine fish exploitation during the Middle and Later Stone Age of South Africa

Taphonomy and Fish Bones from an Enslaved African American Context at Poplar Forest, Virginia, USA

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