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Freshwater and anadromous fishing in Ice Age Beringia
While freshwater and anadromous fish have been critical economic resources for late prehistoric and modern Native Americans, the origin and development of fishing is not well understood. We document the earliest known human use of freshwater and anadromous fish in North America by 13,000 and 11,800...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10413661/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37267368 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg6802 |
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author | Potter, Ben A. Halffman, Carrin M. McKinney, Holly J. Reuther, Joshua D. Finney, Bruce P. Lanoë, François B. López, J. Andrés Holmes, Charles E. Palmer, Erica Capps, Marie Kemp, Brian M. |
author_facet | Potter, Ben A. Halffman, Carrin M. McKinney, Holly J. Reuther, Joshua D. Finney, Bruce P. Lanoë, François B. López, J. Andrés Holmes, Charles E. Palmer, Erica Capps, Marie Kemp, Brian M. |
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description | While freshwater and anadromous fish have been critical economic resources for late prehistoric and modern Native Americans, the origin and development of fishing is not well understood. We document the earliest known human use of freshwater and anadromous fish in North America by 13,000 and 11,800 years ago, respectively, from primary anthropogenic contexts in central Alaska (eastern Beringia). Fish use appears conditioned by broad climatic factors, as all occurrences but one are within the Younger Dryas chronozone. Earlier Bølling-Allerød and later early Holocene components, while exhibiting similar organic preservation, did not yield evidence of fishing, suggesting that this was a response to changing environmental factors, perhaps reductions in higher ranked resources such as large terrestrial mammals. Late Pleistocene and recent Indigenous peoples harvested similar fish taxa in the region (salmon, burbot, whitefish, and pike). We characterize late Pleistocene fishing in interior Beringia as an important element of broad-spectrum foraging rather than the intensive communal fishing and storage common among recent peoples. |
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spelling | pubmed-104136612023-08-11 Freshwater and anadromous fishing in Ice Age Beringia Potter, Ben A. Halffman, Carrin M. McKinney, Holly J. Reuther, Joshua D. Finney, Bruce P. Lanoë, François B. López, J. Andrés Holmes, Charles E. Palmer, Erica Capps, Marie Kemp, Brian M. Sci Adv Social and Interdisciplinary Sciences While freshwater and anadromous fish have been critical economic resources for late prehistoric and modern Native Americans, the origin and development of fishing is not well understood. We document the earliest known human use of freshwater and anadromous fish in North America by 13,000 and 11,800 years ago, respectively, from primary anthropogenic contexts in central Alaska (eastern Beringia). Fish use appears conditioned by broad climatic factors, as all occurrences but one are within the Younger Dryas chronozone. Earlier Bølling-Allerød and later early Holocene components, while exhibiting similar organic preservation, did not yield evidence of fishing, suggesting that this was a response to changing environmental factors, perhaps reductions in higher ranked resources such as large terrestrial mammals. Late Pleistocene and recent Indigenous peoples harvested similar fish taxa in the region (salmon, burbot, whitefish, and pike). We characterize late Pleistocene fishing in interior Beringia as an important element of broad-spectrum foraging rather than the intensive communal fishing and storage common among recent peoples. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2023-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10413661/ /pubmed/37267368 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg6802 Text en Copyright © 2023 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Social and Interdisciplinary Sciences Potter, Ben A. Halffman, Carrin M. McKinney, Holly J. Reuther, Joshua D. Finney, Bruce P. Lanoë, François B. López, J. Andrés Holmes, Charles E. Palmer, Erica Capps, Marie Kemp, Brian M. Freshwater and anadromous fishing in Ice Age Beringia |
title | Freshwater and anadromous fishing in Ice Age Beringia |
title_full | Freshwater and anadromous fishing in Ice Age Beringia |
title_fullStr | Freshwater and anadromous fishing in Ice Age Beringia |
title_full_unstemmed | Freshwater and anadromous fishing in Ice Age Beringia |
title_short | Freshwater and anadromous fishing in Ice Age Beringia |
title_sort | freshwater and anadromous fishing in ice age beringia |
topic | Social and Interdisciplinary Sciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10413661/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37267368 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg6802 |
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