Daily growth increments on fish otoliths as seasonality indicators on archaeological sites
The Tilapia from late palaeolithic Makhadma in Egypt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4610458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wim Van Neer (0000-0003-1710-3623, Royal Museum for Central Africa, corresponding author), Silvia Augustynen (KU Leuven), Thomasz Linkowski (National Marine Fisheries Research Institute) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 241-248 |
| Publication date | 1993-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1047-482X • E-ISSN: 1099-1212 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/oa.1390030403 |
| OpenAlex | W2157777664 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 11 |
Daily growth increments in fish otoliths have been demonstrated for the first time on Quaternary sagittae from a late palaeolithic site in Egypt and they have allowed us to establish the season of fishing. Transverse sections of tilapia sagittae studied under light-microscope demonstrate that recrystallization during diagenesis renders the majority of the margins unreadable. The well-preserved otoliths, however, all have widely spaced outer growth lines, indicating that the fish died during a period of fast growth which coincides with the flood season. Moreover, counting the daily increments showed that late palaeolithic man captured the animals on the floodplain of the Nile after the maximum of the flood, when residual pools were present
Archaeology · Biology · Fish · Fishery · Fishing · Flood myth · Floodplain · Geography · Seasonality · Tilapia · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology · Geology · Oceanography
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
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| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2025 (27) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |