Coastal Subsistence (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This interdisciplinary research project investigates both the emergence and defining characteristics of sustainable coastal exploitation. The southern coast of South Africa has the longest history of sustained coastal exploitation globally, despite rising and falling sea levels, changing coastal habitats, and variations in seasonality and temperature....
Reconsidering Mass-Capture Fishing Practices: Methodological and Theoretical Implications (2016)
The term “mass-capture” is widely used in archaeological and zooarchaeological discourse to connote any form of capture that results in the simultaneous collection of multiple organisms. However, mass-capture as an umbrella term obscures critical variation among diverse techniques that have implications for anthropological interpretation. Nowhere does this limitation have more of an impact than in coastal settings, where fishes and shellfishes constitute the majority of subsistence prey items. ...