Seasonality of fishing in south-east Queensland

Bibliographic Data

ID3074056
AuthorsIan Walters
Year1992
Volume9
Pages29
Publication date1992-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQueensland Archaeological Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0814-3021 • E-ISSN: 1839-339X
PublisherJames Cook University (PUBLISHER • AU)
DOI10.25120/qar.9.1992.107
OpenAlexW2265832115
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited17

Seasonality determinations by growth ring analysis are provided for 112 marine fish vertebrae excavated from late Holocene archaeological sites in coastal south-east Queensland. These indicate that fishing was undertaken throughout the year. It is concluded that models of Late Holocene subsistence and settlement in this region which rely on an assumption of winter dominance in marine fish harvesting must be rejected. This has implications for models which relate seasonal resource gluts to forms of social complexity

Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Dominance (genetics · Economics · Fishery · Fishing · Geography · Holocene · Seasonality · Settlement (finance · Subsistence agriculture · Marine animal studies overview · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology

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