Comment upon the Economic Potential of Fish Utilization in Riverine Environments and Potential Archaeological Biases

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2569106
AutoresAdam G Garson (Yale University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1980
Volumen45
Número3
Páginas562-567
Fecha de publicación1980-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/279874
OpenAlexW2330578336
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas9

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