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Fish and Shellfish Exploitation During the Spanish Colonial Era in California at Mission Santa Clara deAsís. (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Fish, Oyster, Whale: The Archaeology of Maritime Traditions", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fishing played a major role among aboriginal groups in California. Published sources indicate that ethnographically, groups in the San Francisco Bay region fished for coastal and freshwater fishes. They continued these practices during the Spanish Colonial period in California (AD1769-1834), despite being subjected...