Risk, Reliability, and the Importance of Small-Bodied Molluscs across the Hawaiian Windward-Leeward Divide

Rogers, Ashleigh J.; Weisler, Marshall I.

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“…Where then, was the closest marine, rocky, splash zone habitat for N. picea ? On Moloka‘i, N. picea is most abundant on exposed, volcanic, windward coastlines (Rogers and Weisler, 2022). The closest analogue habitat to Kawela would have been the 1.5+ m high basalt boulder stone walls of the four nearby fishponds that offered volcanic rock substrate extending up to ~400 m into the reef flat, proving a marine rocky habitat.…”

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“…The Kawela Mound is a low sandy dune, ~1.5 m high and 425 m 2 , which was previously situated immediately west of Kawela Stream, just inland from the adjacent sandy marine beach, and ~500 m from a marshy area surrounding the inland margin of Kakahai‘a fishpond–an ideal zone for planting the introduced cultigens taro ( Colocasia esculenta ) and sweet potato ( Ipomea batatas ) and habitat for wading and migrating birds (Figure 2). Moloka‘i has a barrier reef that extends ~50 km along the south shore and, at Kawela, the reef stretches nearly 1 km offshore with expanses of live coral, aggregate reef and patch reefs, sand and rubble areas, and extensive coverage of pavement (Rogers and Weisler, 2022: fig. 2).…”

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Terrestrial cultural landscapes changed inshore marine ecosystems: Eight centuries of shellfish harvesting from the Kawela Mound site, Hawaiian Islands

Rogers,

Weisler

2024

The Holocene

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Through unfamiliar and at times marginal environments, successful colonisation of the Pacific Islands relied upon the introduction of domesticated flora and fauna as well as widespread burning to reduce forests and lowland vegetation for agricultural production. These transformations led to the extinction of avifauna, the reduction of forests, and extensive slope erosion and sedimentation into valleys and along shorelines. To date, most attention has been paid to human-induced changes to the terrestrial landscape. In this paper we present the archaeomalacological results from the deeply stratified coastal Kawela Mound, one of the oldest habitation sites in the Hawaiian Islands, with occupation beginning during the 12th century AD. We describe how anthropogenic change of the terrestrial landscape caused sediment run-off, increased shoreline turbidity, and progradation of the adjacent shoreline altering marine habitats, which is recorded in the diversity, size, and habitat preference of food shellfish harvested over nearly eight centuries. The construction of ancient stone-walled fishponds along the littoral shore provided an artificial rocky habitat for shellfish otherwise uncommon along the sandy coast. Consequently, AMS dated layers containing these shellfish provide an indirect avenue for determining the chronology of stone-walled fishponds, the construction of which was directed under the aegis of elites and thus one of the hallmarks of increasing social complexity during the last two centuries before Contact in the late 18th century.

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Terrestrial cultural landscapes changed inshore marine ecosystems: Eight centuries of shellfish harvesting from the Kawela Mound site, Hawaiian Islands

Rogers,

Weisler

2024

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“…Recent investigations of molluscan habitats linked to human foraging undertaken by Harris and Weisler (2017) and Rogers and Weisler (2022) in the eastern Pacific Islands form the methodological basis of the analyses of zonation and benthic habitats on Unguja and Pemba. These authors applied hierarchical classification schemes for marine benthic habitats, with mollusc taxa assigned to discrete environmental/geographic zones and habitats.…”

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Human-ecodynamics and the intertidal zones of the Zanzibar Archipelago

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The intertidal zone, covering the nearshore fringe of coasts and islands and extending from the high-water mark to areas that remain fully submerged, encompasses a range of habitats containing resources that are as important to modern populations as they were to humans in prehistory. Effectively bridging land and sea, intertidal environments are extremely dynamic, requiring complexity and variability in how people engaged with them in the past, much as they do in the present. Here we review and reconsider environmental, archaeological, and modern socio-ecological evidence from the Zanzibar Archipelago on eastern Africa’s Swahili coast, focusing on marine molluscs to gain insight into the trajectories of human engagement with nearshore habitats and resources. We highlight the potential drivers of change and/or stability in human-intertidal interactions through time and space, set against a backdrop of the significant socio-economic and socio-ecological changes apparent in the archipelago, and along the Swahili coast, during the late Holocene.

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Advances in East Polynesian zooarchaeology: Special Issue introduction, review (2016–2024), and assessment

Allen,

Kahn

2024

Archaeology in Oceania

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This article both introduces our Special Issue on “Zooarchaeology and Human Ecodynamics in East Polynesia” and reviews recent research from East Polynesia at large. The seven articles and discussion essay derive from a symposium at the 14th International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) conference in Cairns, Australia (2023). To contextualize these contributions, we review recent studies (2016–2024) from the region relating to human–animal relationships, including morphological, ancient DNA, and stable isotope research. Seven areas or themes emerge from our review, representing substantive, analytical and technical domains. These include (1) geographic coverage; (2) methodological issues; (3) assessments of anthropogenic impacts; (4) studies of domestic and commensal taxa; (5) animals in social, ritual and symbolic roles; (6) engagement with historical records and traditional ecological knowledges (TEK); and (7) emerging technologies. We conclude with a brief summary of recent achievements and propose future directions for zooarchaeological studies in East Polynesia and the wider Pacific.

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Risk, Reliability, and the Importance of Small-Bodied Molluscs across the Hawaiian Windward-Leeward Divide

Cited by 6 publications

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Terrestrial cultural landscapes changed inshore marine ecosystems: Eight centuries of shellfish harvesting from the Kawela Mound site, Hawaiian Islands

Terrestrial cultural landscapes changed inshore marine ecosystems: Eight centuries of shellfish harvesting from the Kawela Mound site, Hawaiian Islands

Human-ecodynamics and the intertidal zones of the Zanzibar Archipelago

Advances in East Polynesian zooarchaeology: Special Issue introduction, review (2016–2024), and assessment

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