Investigating Seasonality of Fishing, and trade during the Maya Postclassic, with otoliths thin-sections from the inland site of Mayapan.
Author(s): Jeff Bryant; Robert Feranec; Nayeli Jiminez Cano; Marilyn Masson
Year: 2017
Summary
This paper will offer preliminary results of fish otolith thin-section growth ring analysis from the Postclassic archaeological site of Mayapan, Yucatan, Mexico. This study offers the first use of otoliths for investigating seasonality of the fish trade in the Yucatan, utilizing perhaps the largest collection of otoliths from an inland site in the Maya world. Data on seasonality, age, and size of several fish species are presented, and discussed in the context of trade ethnohistory, ecology, and fish trade sourcing.
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Investigating Seasonality of Fishing, and trade during the Maya Postclassic, with otoliths thin-sections from the inland site of Mayapan.. Jeff Bryant, Robert Feranec, Nayeli Jiminez Cano, Marilyn Masson. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 429359)
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Keywords
General
otoliths
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Seasonality
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Zooarchaeology
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica
Spatial Coverage
min long: -107.271; min lat: 12.383 ; max long: -86.353; max lat: 23.08 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 17395