Freshwater and anadromous fishing in Ice Age Beringia

While freshwater and anadromous fish have been critical economic resources for late prehistoric and modern Native Americans, the origin and development of fishing is not well understood. We document the earliest known human use of freshwater and anadromous fish in North America by 13,000 and 11,800...

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Main Authors: Potter, Ben A., Halffman, Carrin M., McKinney, Holly J., Reuther, Joshua D., Finney, Bruce P., Lanoë, François B., López, J. Andrés, Holmes, Charles E., Palmer, Erica, Capps, Marie, Kemp, Brian M.
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Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10413661/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37267368
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spelling ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:10413661 2023-09-05T13:18:35+02:00 Freshwater and anadromous fishing in Ice Age Beringia Potter, Ben A. Halffman, Carrin M. McKinney, Holly J. Reuther, Joshua D. Finney, Bruce P. Lanoë, François B. López, J. Andrés Holmes, Charles E. Palmer, Erica Capps, Marie Kemp, Brian M. 2023-06-02 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10413661/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37267368 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg6802 en eng American Association for the Advancement of Science http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10413661/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37267368 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg6802 Copyright © 2023 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. Sci Adv Social and Interdisciplinary Sciences Text 2023 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg6802 2023-08-13T01:15:07Z While freshwater and anadromous fish have been critical economic resources for late prehistoric and modern Native Americans, the origin and development of fishing is not well understood. We document the earliest known human use of freshwater and anadromous fish in North America by 13,000 and 11,800 years ago, respectively, from primary anthropogenic contexts in central Alaska (eastern Beringia). Fish use appears conditioned by broad climatic factors, as all occurrences but one are within the Younger Dryas chronozone. Earlier Bølling-Allerød and later early Holocene components, while exhibiting similar organic preservation, did not yield evidence of fishing, suggesting that this was a response to changing environmental factors, perhaps reductions in higher ranked resources such as large terrestrial mammals. Late Pleistocene and recent Indigenous peoples harvested similar fish taxa in the region (salmon, burbot, whitefish, and pike). We characterize late Pleistocene fishing in interior Beringia as an important element of broad-spectrum foraging rather than the intensive communal fishing and storage common among recent peoples. Text Burbot Alaska Beringia PubMed Central (PMC) Science Advances 9 22
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Potter, Ben A.
Halffman, Carrin M.
McKinney, Holly J.
Reuther, Joshua D.
Finney, Bruce P.
Lanoë, François B.
López, J. Andrés
Holmes, Charles E.
Palmer, Erica
Capps, Marie
Kemp, Brian M.
Freshwater and anadromous fishing in Ice Age Beringia
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description While freshwater and anadromous fish have been critical economic resources for late prehistoric and modern Native Americans, the origin and development of fishing is not well understood. We document the earliest known human use of freshwater and anadromous fish in North America by 13,000 and 11,800 years ago, respectively, from primary anthropogenic contexts in central Alaska (eastern Beringia). Fish use appears conditioned by broad climatic factors, as all occurrences but one are within the Younger Dryas chronozone. Earlier Bølling-Allerød and later early Holocene components, while exhibiting similar organic preservation, did not yield evidence of fishing, suggesting that this was a response to changing environmental factors, perhaps reductions in higher ranked resources such as large terrestrial mammals. Late Pleistocene and recent Indigenous peoples harvested similar fish taxa in the region (salmon, burbot, whitefish, and pike). We characterize late Pleistocene fishing in interior Beringia as an important element of broad-spectrum foraging rather than the intensive communal fishing and storage common among recent peoples.
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author Potter, Ben A.
Halffman, Carrin M.
McKinney, Holly J.
Reuther, Joshua D.
Finney, Bruce P.
Lanoë, François B.
López, J. Andrés
Holmes, Charles E.
Palmer, Erica
Capps, Marie
Kemp, Brian M.
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Palmer, Erica
Capps, Marie
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