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Year-round shellfish harvesting during the Middle to Late Holocene on the northwest coast Baja California (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Enah Montserrat Fonseca Ibarra. Sharon Herzka. Miguel Téllez. Miguel Santa Rosa del Río. René Vellanoweth.

Knowledge of patterns of subsistence and seasonal settlement strategies on the northwest coast of the Baja California Peninsula is still scarce. In order to identify shellfish harvesting patterns from Middle to Late Holocene, oxygen isotope determinations from 66 California mussel shells (Mytilus californianus) from three archaeological sites in the coastal area of Bajamar-Jatay were analyzed. The results suggest that mussels were collected mainly during the fall and winter seasons (63.6%);...