Model of Large Freshwater Clam Exploitation in the Prehistoric Southern Columbia Plateau Culture Area

Author(s): R. Lee Lyman

Year: 1984

Summary

The three genera of large freshwater bivalve molluscs which occur in the Southern Columbia Plateau culture area (Margari tifera I Anodonta I and Gonidea) have been exploited by indigenous peoples throughout the Holocene epoch. Archaeological data suggest episodes of mollusc faunal turnover which are potentially explained as resulting from changing exploitation practices of people or climatic change. A model based on general molluscan ecology and life histories is outlined which, when operationalized by modern studies of these bivalves, will allow explanation of the bivalve faunal history and will illuminate particular aspects of regional settlement-subsistence systems

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Model of Large Freshwater Clam Exploitation in the Prehistoric Southern Columbia Plateau Culture Area. R. Lee Lyman. Northwest Anthropological Research Notes. 18 (1): 97-107. 1984 ( tDAR id: 134097) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8FX78TC

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Keywords

Culture
Eastern Washington Protohistoric Unit

General
Prehistory • Significance / Management

Geographic Keywords
53003 (Fips Code) • 53005 (Fips Code) • 53013 (Fips Code) • 53021 (Fips Code) • 53023 (Fips Code) • 53039 (Fips Code) • 53071 (Fips Code) • 53075 (Fips Code) • Asotin (County) • Benton (County) • Columbia (County) • Franklin (County) • Garfield (County) • Klickitat (County) • North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country) • Walla Walla (County) • Washington (State / Territory) • Whitman (County)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -121.613; min lat: 45.606 ; max long: -116.916; max lat: 47.26 ;

Record Identifiers

NADB document id number(s): 1331949

NADB citation id number(s): 000000040474

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