The archaeology of North Pacific fisheries [[electronic resource] /] / Madonna L. Moss and Aubrey Cannon, editors

• Pubblicazione: Fairbanks, : University of Alaska Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Disciplina: 639.2/2091644
• Soggetto topico: Fisheries - Northwest Coast of North America - History; Fisheries - North Pacific Ocean - History; Indians of North America - Northwest Coast of North America - Antiquities; Indians of North America - Northwest Coast of North America - Social life and customs; Ethnoarchaeology - Northwest Coast of North America; Coastal archaeology - Northwest Coast of North America; Excavations (Archaeology) - Northwest Coast of North America; Fish remains (Archaeology) - Northwest Coast of North America
• Soggetto geografico: Northwest Coast of North America Antiquities; Northwest Coast of North America Social life and customs
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: MossMadonna CannonAubrey
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries: An Introduction; Section I: New Methodological Approaches to the Archaeology of Fisheries; Chapter 2: Identification of Salmon Species from Archaeological Remainson the Northwest Coast; Chapter 3: Little Ice Age Climate: Gadus macrocephalus Otoliths as a Measure of Local Variability; Chapter 4: Pacific Cod and Salmon Structural Bone Density: Implications for Interpreting Butchering Patterns in North Pacific Archaeofaunas; Section II: Salmon in Context: Regional and Local Variation ; Chapter 5: Site-Specific Salmon Fisheries on the Central Coast of British ColumbiaChapter 6: Heiltsuk Stone Fish Traps on the Central Coast of British Columbia; Chapter 7: Riverine Salmon Harvesting and Processing Technology in Northern British Columbia; Chapter 8: Late Holocene Fisheries in Gwaii Haanas: Species Composition, Trends in Abundance, and Environmental or Cultural Explanations; Chapter 9: Locational Optimization and Faunal Remains in Northern Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Island, British Columbia ; Section III: Pacific Cod and Other Gadids: "Cousins" of the Fish That Changed the WorldChapter 10: Pacific Cod in Southeast Alaska: The "Cousin" of the Fish That Changed the World; Chapter 11: Zooarchaeology of the "Fish That Stops": Using Archaeofaunas to Construct Long-Term Time Series of Atlantic and Pacific Cod Populations; Chapter 12: Processing the Patterns: Elusive Archaeofaunal Signatures of Cod Storage on the North Pacific Coast; Chapter 13: Cod and Salmon: A Tale of Two Assemblages from Coffman Cove, Alaska; Section IV: Herring and Other Little-Known Fish of the North Pacific Coast ; Chapter 14: Fish Traps and Shell Middens at Comox Harbour, British ColumbiaChapter 15: An Archaeological History of Holocene Fish Use in the Dundas Island Group, British Columbia; Chapter 16: Patterns of Fish Usage at a Late Prehistoric Northern Puget Sound Shell Midden; Chapter 17: Herring Bones in Southeast Alaska Archaeological Sites: The Record of Tlingit Use of Yaaw (Pacific Herring, Clupea pallasii); Section V: Conclusion; Chapter 18: Conclusion: The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: For thousands of years, fisheries were crucial to the sustenance of the First Peoples of the Pacific Coast. Yet human impact has left us with a woefully incomplete understanding of their histories prior to the industrial era. Covering Alaska, British Columbia, and Puget Sound, The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries illustrates how the archaeological record reveals new information about ancient ways of life and the histories of key species. Individual chapters cover salmon, as well as a number of lesser-known species abundant in archaeological sites, including pacific cod, herring, rockfish
• Titolo autorizzato: The archaeology of North Pacific fisheries
• ISBN: 1-60223-147-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457234903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II