The estimation of live fish size from archaeological cranial bones of the New Zealand blue codParapercis colias

Leach, B. F.; Davidson, Janet; Horwood, L. M.

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“…Leach et al 1997). The ecological preference for each identified taxa along with the main types of capture technology have been discussed by several authorities (Kirch and Dye 1979;Butler 1994;Hawkins 2000;Ono 2003).…”

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“…Olson and James 1991;Quammen 1996;Steadman 1995Steadman , 1999Steadman , 2006aWorthy and Holdaway 2002). The large extinct taxa doubtless fell victim to over-hunting by the first humans (Anderson 1996;Quammen 1996).The evidence for this in Viti Levu is still largely lacking, but there is no other plausible reason why large taxa should persist for millennia through many climatic cycles then drop from the record about the time of human arrival. To date, no significant archaeological bone middens of extinct fauna have been recovered from Viti Levu.…”

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“…The research began in 1995 as a collaborative project of the ANU and the Fiji Museum entitled 'Prehistoric colonisation and palaeoenvironment of Fiji ' (Anderson et al 1996). The initial emphasis was on the period beginning about 5000 BP and extending up to about 2000 BP, with the objective of studying the pre-human landscape and then the arrival, spread and environmental impact of human colonisation.…”

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The Early Prehistory of Fiji

Anderson¹,

Clark²

2009

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terra australis 31Terra 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.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. Mailu. G. Irwin (1985) Volume 11: Archaeology in Eastern Timor, 1966-67. I. Glover (1986 Volume 12 List of volumes in Terra Australis THE EARLY PREHISTORY OF FIJI Edited by Geoffrey Clark and Atholl Anderson © 2009 ANU E PressPublished by ANU E Press The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Email: anuepress@anu.edu. IntroductionThis volume describes results of a research program on the early phases of prehistory in Fiji.The research began in 1995 as a collaborative project of the ANU and the Fiji Museum entitled 'Prehistoric colonisation and palaeoenvironment of Fiji ' (Anderson et al. 1996). The initial emphasis was on the period beginning about 5000 BP and extending up to about 2000 BP, with the objective of studying the pre-human landscape and then the arrival, spread and environmental impact of human colonisation. At the time, human colonisation was thought to begin somewhere between 3000 and 4500 BP, depending on whether archaeological (3200-3700 BP) or paleoenvironmental (4000-4500 BP) data were preferred, and the colonising Lapita phase was regarded as persisting up to about 2000 BP (Frost 1979:64; Gibbons and Clunie 1986;Southern 1986; Davidson et al. 1990:131; Davidson and Leach 1993:102-103). Our initial fieldwork involved sediment coring for pollen, July-August 1995 in Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, including at sites where previous data had suggested unusually early dates of possible human impact (Hope and Anderson 1995). During the first season of archaeological fieldwork, in 1996, Clark began doctoral research on the early and middle phases of Fijian prehistory with the objective of studying transformations that led from Lapita towards a more distinctly Fijian cultural facies . Thus, the Fiji project was broadened, and renamed 'The Early Prehistory of Fiji Project' (abbreviated to the EPF). Its objectives were to consider initial colonisation and its effects, and later transformations before the last millennium of Fijian prehistory: approximately equating to the Sigatoka and Navatu phases in the ...

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2009

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“…Casteel (1974aCasteel ( , b, 1976 and Morales and Rosenlund (1979) provided systematic and replicable methods for measuring archaeological fish bones for reconstructing live fish weight and length. Since these pioneering works, pursuits have focused on refining approaches for assessing changes in fish populations over time, including seasonality, resource depression and changes in trophic structure (e.g., Desse and Desse-Berset 1996a, b;Leach et al 1997a;Van Neer et al 1993). …”

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“…New Zealand has a greatly reduced marine biodiversity compared to the subtropical and tropical Pacific Islands, where the species richness of ichthyofauna hinders species-level identifications that are ideal for accurate size reconstructions (e.g., Boocock 1994, 1995;Leach et al 1997aLeach et al ,c, 1999a.…”

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Sustained prehistoric exploitation of a Marshall Islands fishery: ichthyoarchaeological approaches, marine resource use, and human-environment interactions on Ebon Atoll

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Atolls are often characterised in terms of the environmental constraints and challenges these landscapes impose on sustained habitation, including: nutrient-poor soils and salt laden winds that impede plant growth, lack of perennial surface fresh water, limited terrestrial biodiversity, and vulnerability to extreme weather events and inundation since most atolls are only 2-3 m above sea level. Yet, on Ebon Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands in eastern Micronesia, the oceanside and lagoonside intertidal marine environments are expansive, with the reef area four times larger than the land area, supporting a diverse range of taxa. Given the importance of finfish resources in the Pacific, and specifically Ebon, this provided an ideal context for evaluating methods and methodological approaches for conducting Pacific ichthyoarchaeological analyses, and based on this assessment, implement high resolution and globally recognised approaches to investigate the spatial and temporal variation in the Ebon marine fishery. Variability in landscape use, alterations in the range of taxa captured, archaeological proxies of past climate stability, and the comparability of archaeological and ecological datasets were considered. Utilising a historical ecology approach, this thesis provides an analysis of the exploitation of the Ebon marine fishery from initial settlement to the historic period-two millennia of continuous occupation.The thesis demonstrated the importance of implementing high resolution methods and methodologies when considering long-term human interactions with marine fisheries. Improving methods and data quality of Pacific fishing studies included using vertebral morphometrics for fish size reconstructions and the utilisation of all cranial and postcranial remains for taxonomic identifications. Spatial analysis of habitation sites spread across three islets representing the windward-leeward gradient indicated that marine environments local to each site were not influencing taxonomic composition, but the variability in richness and evenness identified is likely a reflection of fishing technology and site function. There was no indication of significant human impact to the inshore reef taxa, which may be a reflection of the flexible foraging strategies implemented and the resilience and structure of these marine environments. As such, the shifts in the relative abundance of skipjack (K. pelamis) in the archaeological sites were attributed to the potential influence of ENSO variability over the last two millennia.With the implementation of these comprehensive methods and the use of historical ecology as a conceptual framework the range of research questions that could be explored was expanded.Consequently, this thesis was able to address some of these questions, including: the identification of variability in foraging practices across small spatial scales, the usefulness of ichthyoarchaeological data for tracking environmental stability, and distinguishing between changes ii in resource availability and s...

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