Freshwater and Anadromous Fishing in Ice Age Beringia

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of Alaska, the Gateway to the Americas" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

While freshwater and anadromous fishing are critical economic resources for late prehistoric and modern Indigenous peoples in western North America, the origin and development of fishing is not well understood. Here we present results from investigations into all reported fish assemblages in central Alaska earlier than 7000 cal yr BP. We document early human use of freshwater and anadromous fish in secure archaeological contexts. We evaluate patterns of fish ubiquity and diversity with respect to both climatic factors and modern/ethnographic data to characterize fishing origins and harvesting methods and strategies.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeology of Alaska, the Gateway to the Americas   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36356.0