Gunditjmara Environmental Management:

Builth, Heather

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“…Why do paintings of eels dominate numerically, and how does this ubiquity contribute to their meaning? Although the pattern may reflect the widespread distribution and unusual capacity of eels to thrive from lower to upper reaches of streams, there is no evidence that the eel was the mainstay of Aboriginal society and economy as in Gunditjmara Country in Victoria (Builth 2006). However, the cultural significance of eels is reflected in ancestral narratives and ceremonies owned by cultural groups in and around the area.…”

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Categorising Catfish, Jewfish and Eel Motifs in Laura (Quinkan) Rock Art, Cape York Peninsula, Australia

Noelene Cole,

Christine Musgrave,

Roseanne George

et al. 2024

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Fish motifs in Aboriginal rock art of the Laura area (Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia) include a heterogenous group that has been imprecisely classified by rock art researchers. By analysing motif attributes, style and contexts (including natural populations), we characterised three categories: fork-tailed catfish (Neoarius paucus), eel-tailed catfish (Neosilurus spp.) and eel (Anguilla reinhardti). We label the categories with the local names ‘catfish’, ‘jewfish’ and ‘eel’. The catfish cohort has a relatively naturalistic style, while the eel exhibits anatomical trends of eels, distinctive arrangements, and stylistic overlaps with jewfish that may denote shared meanings. Ambiguity is confirmed as a cultural value and communication mode of the rock art system.

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Categorising Catfish, Jewfish and Eel Motifs in Laura (Quinkan) Rock Art, Cape York Peninsula, Australia

Noelene Cole,

Christine Musgrave,

Roseanne George

et al. 2024

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“…This allowed the territorial owners of the land on which the resource existed to increase individual or group prestige by controlling access to desirable resources (Jochim 2006 (Bennett 1834:1: 272;Builth 2006;Flood 1980:77;McCarthy 1939). The exchange of these food resources was the result of surpluses produced at peak maturity periods for each species, which allowed large numbers of people to meet when water and food was most reliable (Lourandos 1985;McBryde 1987 …”

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Tool stones from the Punchaw Lake Village site (FiRs-1), Nechako Plateau, British Columbia, Canada.

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Aquaculture in the Ancient World: Ecosystem Engineering, Domesticated Landscapes, and the First Blue Revolution

Rogers

2023

J Archaeol Res

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Aquaculture is the world’s fastest growing food sector and accounts for more than 50% of the world’s fish food supply. The significant growth in global aquaculture since the middle of the 20th century has been dubbed by the Blue Revolution. However, it is not the first Blue Revolution to take place in human history. While historically classified as low-ranking, seasonal, or starvation resources in the archaeological discourse, marine foods were vital resources that ancient communities developed and exploited using a vast array of strategies. Among these aquatic strategies was aquaculture. This first Blue Revolution was initiated during the Early Holocene, some 8,000 years ago in China, with archaeologists now documenting aquaculture across the globe. This review considers the commonalities between ancient aquacultural systems including evidence of ecosystem engineering and the development of domesticated landscapes as production systems. People of the past constructed agroecosystems to not only enhance and diversify aquatic resources, but to control the reliability of key subsistence foods and to meet the demands of ritual practice and conspicuous social stratification. These aquaculture systems were maintained for centuries, if not millennia. Worldwide research conducted on ancient aquaculture can provide critical insights into developing more ecologically sustainable, resilient, and diverse marine production systems for coastal communities today, thus, achieving industry sustainability and limiting negative environmental impacts to the world’s shorelines and overexploited fisheries.

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Gunditjmara Environmental Management:

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Categorising Catfish, Jewfish and Eel Motifs in Laura (Quinkan) Rock Art, Cape York Peninsula, Australia

Categorising Catfish, Jewfish and Eel Motifs in Laura (Quinkan) Rock Art, Cape York Peninsula, Australia

Tool stones from the Punchaw Lake Village site (FiRs-1), Nechako Plateau, British Columbia, Canada.

Aquaculture in the Ancient World: Ecosystem Engineering, Domesticated Landscapes, and the First Blue Revolution

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