1992
DOI: 10.1016/0278-4165(92)90013-2
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Evolution of marine mammal hunting: A view from the California and Oregon coasts

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“…Because starvation may cause ␦ 15 N values of body tissues to increase (23), a second possibility is that all of the archaeological YOY we sampled were starved individuals. This is an unlikely scenario, especially in sites where YOY are abundant and ample archaeological evidence suggests NFS were actively hunted (5)(6)(7)(8). A third possibility is that, upon weaning at Ϸ4 months, pups immediately began to feed one trophic level higher than adult females, then switched to feed at a lower trophic level than adult females at Ϸ12 months of age.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Because starvation may cause ␦ 15 N values of body tissues to increase (23), a second possibility is that all of the archaeological YOY we sampled were starved individuals. This is an unlikely scenario, especially in sites where YOY are abundant and ample archaeological evidence suggests NFS were actively hunted (5)(6)(7)(8). A third possibility is that, upon weaning at Ϸ4 months, pups immediately began to feed one trophic level higher than adult females, then switched to feed at a lower trophic level than adult females at Ϸ12 months of age.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This explanation requires no major changes in NFS breeding or migratory behavior, although it might require a larger source population at high latitudes to explain the higher stranding frequency in the past. (ii) NFS may have come from nearby haul-outs or breeding colonies (5)(6)(7)(8). This explanation requires a marked increase in the number and/or size of NFS breeding colonies at temperate latitudes.…”
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“…First, the human colonisation of Chatham Islands during or before the 16th Century (King 1989) was a relatively recent event, with perhaps insufficient time elapsed or a population too small to deplete the local fur seals. Second, the presence of many uninhabitable nearshore islands may have held a sufficient reservoir of seals to replace losses from human exploitation at readily-accessible sites (e.g., Hildebrandt & Jones 1992). In contrast, there were few uninhabitable nearshore islands around most of the New Zealand mainland.…”
Section: Review Of Historic Exploitation By Humans Prehistoric Exploimentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This impact mirrored the consumptive depletion of seals by hunter-gatherer societies elsewhere. The local extirpation of seal populations in prehistoric times by subsistence hunting has been documented for indigenous peoples of the north Pacific (Yesner 1988;Hildebrandt & Jones 1992), southern South America (Lanata 1990), and southern Africa (Woodborne et al 1995). The impact of human colonisation was not restricted to extirpation of seals but typically resulted in the demise of most large-bodied species (Diamond 1991;Flannery 1994).…”
Section: Review Of Historic Exploitation By Humans Prehistoric Exploimentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Offshore rocks and islands that once served as refugia for Chendytes from terrestrial carnivores no longer provided safe haven from human predators with watercraft, as well as the dogs people brought with them. While human-induced resource suppression has been argued for other prehistoric marine resources in coastal California (19,20), the vulnerability of Chendytes resulted in extinction between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago-after at least 8,000 years of human hunting. Given the population densities and technological sophistication of native peoples along the California coast, as well as the record of rapid flightless bird extinctions elsewhere in the Pacific, it is noteworthy that this highly vulnerable species survived for so long along the Pacific Coast of North America.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%