1856 - 1915 (Temporal Keyword)
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Life and Death on the Edge: 19th Century Chinese Abalone Fisheries on California’s Channel Islands (2016)
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Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Chinese immigrants built the first commercial abalone fishery along the western edge of North America. These fishers harvested tons of abalone meat and shells from intertidal waters and shipped their products to markets in mainland China and America. Chinese abalone harvesting sites still are preserved on California’s Channel Islands, and over the last decade archaeologists have become increasingly interested in documenting the material record. Using...