Herring (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Kopperl. Eleni Petrou.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bones of the Pacific herring, abundant in many Pacific Northwest shell middens, are increasingly recognized as important indicators of past complex foodwebs and the ecosystemic role of humans. For decades, zooarchaeologists interpreted the presence of herring bones at these sites as reflecting indigenous fishing during a limited late winter-early spring...