Comment upon the Economic Potential of Fish Utilization in Riverine Environments and Potential Archaeological Biases
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2569106 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam G Garson (Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 562-567 |
| Publication date | 1980-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/279874 |
| OpenAlex | W2330578336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 9 |
New data from the South American lowland tropics are used in support of a recent argument extolling the potential of fish utilization in major floodplains. The discussion will cover five points: (1) major floodplains in general, and the Amazon and Orinoco floodplains in particular, have similar characteristics that make them biologically productive regions; (2) high fish productivity and the use of mass-fishing techniques in floodplain regions are characteristics of lowland South America; (3) the ecological dynamics of the seasonally inundated savanna are particularly productive and propitious for seasonal exploitation using mass-fishing techniques; (4) differences in species composition and fish size may have implications for seasonal and spatial variations in fish exploitation; and (5) substantial biases are apparent against the retrieval of small fish remains using traditional archaeological recovery techniques
Amazon rainforest · Biology · Fish · Fish <Actinopterygii> · Fishery · Fishing · Floodplain · Geography · Productivity · Tropics · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2023 (28) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |