Overview

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, eulachon, and hake. In turn, this ecological history informs suggestions for sustainable fishing in today’s rapidly changing environment.

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Author:   Madonna L. Moss ,  Aubrey Cannon
Publisher:   University of Alaska Press
Imprint:   University of Alaska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9781602231467

ISBN 10:   160223146
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   01 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter 1: The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries: An Introduction       Madonna L. Moss and Aubrey Cannon Section I: New Methodological Approaches to Archaeology of Fisheries Chapter 2: Identification of Salmon Species from Archaeological Remains on the Northwest Coast       Trevor J. Orchard and Paul Szpak Chapter 3: Little Ice Age Climate: Gadus macrocephalus Otoliths as a Measure of Local Variability       Catherine F. West, Stephen Wischniowski, and Christopher Johnston Chapter 4: Pacific Cod and Salmon Structural Bone Density: Implications for Interpreting Butchering Patters in North Pacific Archaeofaunas       Ross E. Smith, Virginia L. Butler, Shelia Orwoll, and Catherine Wilson-Skogen Section II: Salmon in Context: Regional and Local Variation Chapter 5: Site-Specific Salmon Fisheries on the Central Coast of British Columbia       Aubrey Cannon, Dongya Yang, and Camilla Speller Chapter 6: Heiltsuk Stone Fish Traps on the Central Coast of British Columbia       Elroy White Chapter 7: Riverine Salmon Harvesting and Processing Technology in Northern British Columbia       Paul Prince Chapter 8: Late Holocene Fisheries in Gwaii Haanas: Species Composition, Trends in Abundance, and Environmental or Cultural Explanations       Trevor J. Orchard Chapter 9: Locational Optimization and Faunal Remains in Northern Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Island, British Columbia       Gregory G. Monks Section III: Pacific Cod and Other Gadids: “Cousins” of the Fish That Changed the World Chapter 10: Pacific Cod in Southeast Alaska: The “Cousin” of the Fish That Changed the World       Madonna L. Moss Chapter 11: Zooarchaeology of the “Fish That Stops”: Using Archaeofaunas to Construct Long-Term Time Series of Atlantic and Pacific Cod Populations       Matthew W. Betts, Herbert D.G. Maschner, and Donald S. Clark Chapter 12: Processing the Patterns: Elusive Archaeofaunal Signatures of Cod Storage on the North Pacific Coast       Megan A. Partlow and Robert E. Kopperl Chapter 13: Cod and Salmon: A Tale of Two Assemblages from Coffman Cove, Alaska       Madonna L. Moss Section IV: Herring and Other Little-Known Fish of the North Pacific Coast Chapter 14: Fish Traps and Shell Middens at Comox Harbour, British Columbia       Megan Caldwell Chapter 15: An Archaeological History of Holocene Fish Use in the Dundas Island Group, British Columbia       Natalie Brewster and Andrew Martindale Chapter 16: Patterns of Fish Usage at a Late Prehistoric Northern Puget Sound Shell Midden       Teresa Trost, Randall Schalk, Mike Wolverton, and Margaret A. Nelson Chapter 17: Herring Bones in Southeast Alaska Archaeological Sites: The Record of Tlingit Use of Yaaw (Pacific Herring, Clupea pallasii)       Madonna L. Moss, Virginia L. Butler, and J. Tait Elder Section V: Conclusion Chapter 18: Conclusion: The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries       Aubrey Cannon and Madonna L. Moss Contributors Index

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The goals of the volume are broad but manageable . . . [it] will be valuable to readers who are interested in the latest methods of extracting data from archaeological fishbone, who are interested in a current summary of data on precontact North Pacific fisheries and fish (also useful for fisheries management), and for those interested in the evolution of fisheries and fish in the North Pacific. --Kathlyn M. Stewart American Antiquity The contributions to this volume, though just a sampling of the work currently being conducted around the eastern North Pacific, highlight the depth and range of approaches that characterize the state-of-the-art in the zooarchaeological analysis of fish remains. --Michael A. Etnier Alaska Journal of Anthropology Serious students of fisheries research are well advised to obtain this book. --Roy L. Carlson Review of Archaeology [An] outstanding collection of articles that point the way forward in collaborative interdisciplinary marine historical ecology in the North Atlantic. Separately these volumes have great regional significance in demonstrating the importance of past to present in marine resource management. Together they may serve notice that maritime historical ecology has come of age and should be recognized as global-change science. --Thomas H. McGovern International Journal of Nautical Archaeology This volume provides important insights for all archaeologists working along the north Pacific coast. --Alan D. McMillan Journal Canadien d'Arch ologie [The editors] hope that the creation of a baseline understanding of the complexities of fisheries through time, space, and cultural uses will yield the recognition that ancient data are relevant to the present and future of fisheries management--particularly the ways in which climate change may provoke fine-scale responses in the fisheries. . . . Recommended. --Choice

The goals of the volume are broad but manageable . . . [it] will be valuable to readers who are interested in the latest methods of extracting data from archaeological fishbone, who are interested in a current summary of data on precontact North Pacific fisheries and fish (also useful for fisheries management), and for those interested in the evolution of fisheries and fish in the North Pacific. --Kathlyn M. Stewart American Antiquity

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Madonna L. Moss is professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon. Aubrey Cannon is professor of anthropology at McMaster University in Ontario.

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