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Creating a Fisher’s Body: Using Ethnobioarchaeology to Reveal the Caballito de Totora-Body-Fish-Sea Assemblage in Ancient Huanchaco, Peru (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Negotiating Watery Worlds: Impacts and Implications of the Use of Watercraft in Small-Scale Societies" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On the North Coast of Peru, archaeological evidence suggests artisanal fishers have used caballito de totora (reed) boats for over 3,000 years. In the modern-day fishing and surfing town of Huanchaco in the Moche Valley, these crescent-shaped boats are still used daily for gathering...