Indicator groups and effective seasons on the coast: Zooarchaeology of fish in the lower Suwannee region of Florida

Palmiotto, Andrea

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.05.017

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“…The low variance (cv = 0.13) of this population points to same-age capture. As Palmiotto (2015:78) notes from FWC data, mullet express the least variation in size during the warm-wet season. Striped mullet that are 300 mm in length are roughly three years of age, just reaching sexually maturity and on the verge of their first offshore spawning run in the fall (Florida Museum of Natural History 2019).…”

Section: Shell Mound and Its Pit Assemblagesmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…In her analysis of monthly capture data from FWC, Palmiotto (2015, 2016) concludes that effective seasons must take into account annual variations in both temperature and precipitation. She infers from these data four seasons: (1) the warm-dry season of April through May, (2) the warm-wet season of June through September, (3) the cool-dry season of October through January, and (4) the cool-wet season of February through March.…”

Section: Shell Mound and Its Pit Assemblagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Overall, midden vertebrate assemblages are more diverse (3.07–3.21) and considerably more equitable (0.86–0.94) than those from pits. Subtle but meaningful trends in fish taxa suggest that midden includes cool-weather deposits (e.g., bones of spot; Palmiotto 2015:274). More cautiously, we suggest that the midden assemblages analyzed to date are not as season-specific as the pit assemblages and thus reflect activities aside from summer solstice events.…”

Section: Shell Mound and Its Pit Assemblagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With respect to variation in capture rates, data from the long-standing Florida Fish and Wildlife (FWC) fish collection program provide some basis for comparisons across seasons (FWC 2016). Data used by Palmiotto (2016) to construct “effective seasons” include seine net captures from 1996 to 2012 across thousands of randomly selected sample sites in the greater vicinity of Shell Mound. Collection trips over this span averaged about six per month, with eight sampling locations per trip.…”

Section: Shell Mound and Its Pit Assemblagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Maritime Ritual Economies of Cosmic Synchronicity: Summer Solstice Events at a Civic-Ceremonial Center on the Northern Gulf Coast of Florida

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Places such as Poverty Point, Mound City, and Chaco Canyon remind us that the siting of ritual infrastructure in ancient North America was a matter of cosmological precedent. The cosmic gravity of these places gathered persons periodically in numbers that challenged routine production. Ritual economies intensified, but beyond the material demands of hosting people, the siting of these places and the timing of gatherings were cosmic work that preconfigured these outcomes. A first millennium AD civic-ceremonial center on the northern Gulf Coast of Florida illustrates the rationale for holding feasts on the end of a parabolic dune that it shared with an existing mortuary facility. Archaeofauna from large pits at Shell Mound support the inference that feasts were timed to summer solstices. Gatherings were large, judging from the infrastructure in support of feasts and efforts to intensify production through oyster mariculture and the construction of a large tidal fish trap. The 250-year history of summer solstice feasts at Shell Mound reinforces the premise that ritual economies were not simply the amplification of routine production. It also suggests that the ecological potential for intensification was secondary to the cosmic significance of solstice-oriented dunes and their connection to mortuary and world-renewal ceremonialism.

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Section: Shell Mound and Its Pit Assemblagesmentioning

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“…Identifying indicator groups allows archaeologists to move beyond complex assemblages of taxa, with often disparate native ranges or environmental requirements (e.g., salinity tolerance), to the identification of groups of taxa that share common points of origin or methods of collection. The indicator group approach has been formally employed during the study of seasonally-variable exploitation of fish in prehistoric coastal Florida (Palmiotto 2016) and it is implicit in other recent work, including the identification of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in Gold Rush-era San Francisco (Conrad et al 2015). Despite the effectiveness of analyzing multiple taxa through an indicator group approach, few zooarchaeologists do this systematically; instead, most focus primarily on the environmental requirements of individual taxa.…”

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The Fresh and the Salted: Chinese Migrant Fisheries Engagement and Trade in Nineteenth-Century North America

Kennedy¹

2017

Journal of Ethnobiology

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Zooarchaeological identifications of fish taxa at nineteenth-century Chinese migrant sites in North America indicate that Chinese consumers maintained local, regional, and international connections with a number of discrete fisheries to satisfy their desire for both fresh and salted fish products. To date, no archaeological study has addressed the broader complexity of the Chinese fish trade in North America. This paper explores these intricacies by drawing on historical observations of nineteenth-century Chinese fishing operations in North America, zooarchaeological fish data from sites across the American West, and an in-depth case study of archaeologically recovered fish remains from the Market Street Chinatown in San Jose, California. To better understand the fish data from this site, I use indicator group analysis to identify several likely sources of the specimens identified at the site. Overall, the data show that, although Chinese migrants typically consumed fish taxa that resembled those traditionally eaten in nineteenth-century southern China, they sourced their fish from multiple Chinese and Anglo fisheries throughout the American West and China.

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Indicator groups and effective seasons on the coast: Zooarchaeology of fish in the lower Suwannee region of Florida

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Maritime Ritual Economies of Cosmic Synchronicity: Summer Solstice Events at a Civic-Ceremonial Center on the Northern Gulf Coast of Florida

Maritime Ritual Economies of Cosmic Synchronicity: Summer Solstice Events at a Civic-Ceremonial Center on the Northern Gulf Coast of Florida

The Fresh and the Salted: Chinese Migrant Fisheries Engagement and Trade in Nineteenth-Century North America

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