Ancient DNA Identification of Giant Snakehead ( Channa micropeltes) Remains from the Market Street Chinatown and Some Implications for the Nineteenth-Century Pacific World Fish Trade

• Published in: American Antiquity
• Main Authors: Kennedy, J. Ryan, Bingham, Brittany, Flores, Mary Faith, Kemp, Brian M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2021
• Subjects: Pacific; San Jose; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2021.61; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731621000615

This study presents the results of ancient DNA analyses of eight snakehead ( Channa sp.) bones from the Market Street Chinatown, a nineteenth-century Chinese diaspora archaeological site in San Jose, California. The sequences of a short stretch of the mitochondrial DNA identify the Market Street Chi...