Temporal Studies of Salmon Isotopes at Temyiq Tuyuryaq

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Temyiq Tuyuryaq: Collaborative Archaeology the Yup’iit Way" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This research is part of a larger collaboration with the Togiak community to excavate, analyze, and interpret the stable carbon and nitrogen isotope composition of archaeological salmon bones excavated from the Temyiq Tuyuryaq site. Sources of carbon, fueling the base of the food web and the trophic level of the salmon, are sensitive to shifts in climate and changes in food web dynamics as well as subsistence practices. This research explores reconstructed fish diets relying on archaeological data along with contemporary samples, a temporal span representative of variability in climate regimes and subsistence practices. Our research will contribute to a better understanding of fishing/subsistence pressures on a cultural continuum of more than 1200 years. Collaborations with the Togiak community will ensure relevance to contemporary fishery understanding, management, and predictions based on subsistence practices and cultural identity.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Temyiq Tuyuryaq: Collaborative Archaeology the Yup’iit Way   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24670