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
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2096401 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Ryan Kennedy (0000-0001-8470-5275, University of New Orleans, corresponding author), Brittany Bingham (0000-0001-7873-0263, University of Oklahoma), Mary Faith Flores, Mary Faith C Flores (0009-0008-6027-080X, University of Oklahoma), Brian M Kemp (0000-0003-3945-3392, University of Oklahoma) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 42-58 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| 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 | 10.1017/aaq.2021.61 |
| OpenAlex | W4200508011 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 46 |
This study presents the results of ancient DNA analyses of eight snakehead (Channasp.) 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 Chinatown snakeheads as Giant Snakehead (Channa micropeltes), a species native to Southeast Asia. These results provide the first archaeological evidence of the nineteenth-century trade of Asian freshwater fishes to North America, and they reveal that preserved fish products from throughout the Pacific World were readily distributed across the Chinese diaspora. We place our findings within the broader context of nineteenth-century Chinese migration to show how the common Chinese small shareholding business model and access to trade connections facilitated by Chinese-operated import/export firms known asjinshanzhuangallowed Chinese fishers to be successful across the Pacific World. Finally, we suggest avenues for future study by comparing Chinese migration-based, flexible fishing strategies using generalist methods with the highly specialized collection and trade of species like Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) in the North Atlantic
Ancient DNA · Archaeology · Biology · Chinatown · Context (archaeology) · Diaspora · DNA barcoding · Fish · Fish <Actinopterygii> · Fishery · Fishing · Gadus · Geography · Political science · Population · Snakehead · Sociology · Zoology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Identification and Quantification in Food · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |