Tracing historical animal husbandry, meat trade, and food provisioning: A multi-isotopic approach to the analysis of shipwreck faunal remains from the William Salthouse, Port Phillip, Australia

Guiry, Eric J.; Staniforth, Mark; Nehlich, Olaf; Grimes, Vaughan; Smith, Colin; Harpley, Bernice; Noël, Stéphane; Richards, Michael P.

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2014.10.001

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“…However, the calibrated age range 1 and 3). Protocols & First Results from Chronos Facility 1015 with the greatest probability (46.6%) spans cal CE 1832-1891, consistent with the likely death of the cow within 1-2 years before the known date of the William Salthouse wreck (Guiry et al 2015). In parallel with the radiocarbon results, stable isotope and elemental values for the William Salthouse shipwreck cow and the late Pleistocene Hollis Mammoth (Table 4) agree with previously published results (Guiry et al 2015;De La Torre et al 2019).…”

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confidence: 87%

“…To complement the above, we undertook measurements on a new internal standard for archaeological bone, a cow bone from the wreck of the William Salthouse, which was sunk at the entrance of Port Philip Bay as the vessel approached Melbourne in 1841 (Guiry et al 2015). With a cargo of Canadian meat and fish, the cow bone provides a known historic age sample with a known (Northern Hemisphere) provenance.…”

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confidence: 99%

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RADIOCARBON PROTOCOLS AND FIRST INTERCOMPARISON RESULTS FROM THE CHRONOS ¹⁴CARBON-CYCLE FACILITY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

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The Chronos 14Carbon-Cycle Facility is a new radiocarbon laboratory at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Built around an Ionplus 200 kV MIni-CArbon DAting System (MICADAS) Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (AMS) installed in October 2019, the facility was established to address major challenges in the Earth, Environmental and Archaeological sciences. Here we report an overview of the Chronos facility, the pretreatment methods currently employed (bones, carbonates, peat, pollen, charcoal, and wood) and results of radiocarbon and stable isotope measurements undertaken on a wide range of sample types. Measurements on international standards, known-age and blank samples demonstrate the facility is capable of measuring 14C samples from the Anthropocene back to nearly 50,000 years ago. Future work will focus on improving our understanding of the Earth system and managing resources in a future warmer world.

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RADIOCARBON PROTOCOLS AND FIRST INTERCOMPARISON RESULTS FROM THE CHRONOS ¹⁴CARBON-CYCLE FACILITY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

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“…Preserved and barrelled meats, such as salted mutton, beef, and pork, were common provisions on contemporary ships and within other maritime industries and many cuts incorporated archaeologically visible portions of bone (English ; Gibbs ; Guiry et al . ).…”

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Island survival: The anthracological and archaeofaunal evidence for colonial‐era events on Barrow Island, north‐west Australia

Byrne

Dooley

Manne

et al. 2019

Archaeology in Oceania

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The establishment of north-west Australia's nineteenth-century pearlshell fisheries led to the first occupation of many arid offshore islands since the early mid-Holocene. The nature of this occupation, and how crews subsisted on such remote landscapes, remains poorly understood. We investigate a rare instance of an archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological record for this colonial-era activity at Bandicoot Bay, Barrow Island. Varied taxonomic representation suggests an atypical subsistence strategy for a maritime industry, involving broad exploitation of resources over several local landscapes and an absence of remains of provisioned food. Identified plant taxa largely conform to resources known ethnographically to have been exploited by north-west Aboriginal communities, and many relate to traditional food practices. The spatial patterning of charred wood and bone suggests multiple burning activities and areas of specific use. Conditions of wood fuel on the island may have prompted the augmentation of fuel, indicated by the presence of non-local wood charcoal and high proportions of calcined bone. These findings (i) are consistent with the hypothesis that the site's occupants originated from the north-west as part of coerced pearling labour and (ii) provide unique insight into the role offshore islands may have occupied in the management of this industry's labour forces. RÉSUMÉAu 19 e siècle, le développement d'une industrie de pêche des huitres perlières dans le nord-ouest de l'Australie entraina la première réoccupation de nombreusesîles arides de cette région, après celles datant du milieu de l'Holocène. La nature de ces occupations et la façon dont leséquipages purent subsister au sein de milieux si isolés demeurent mal comprises. Nous examinons ici un exemple rare d'assemblages archéozoologiques et archéobotaniques pour ce type d'activités de la période coloniale, dans la baie de Bandicoot, Barrow Island. La diversité des représentations taxonomiques de faune suggère une stratégie de subsistance atypique pour une industrie maritime, incluant un mode d'exploitation extensif des ressources issues de plusieurs environnements locaux, ainsi qu'une absence de restes provenant de nourriture approvisionnée. Les taxons botaniques identifiés correspondentà ceux exploités par les communautés aborigènes du nord-ouest du continent, selon les données ethnographiques, et beaucoup sont associés aux pratiques de subsistance traditionnelles. La répartition spatiale des restes anthracologiques et de faune suggère l'existence de plusieurs types de combustion et zones d'activités spécialisées. La disponibilité du bois de feu sur l'île a pu motiver la recherche de solutions pour augmenter les ressources en combustible, comme semble l'indiquer la présence de charbons de bois d'essence non locale et les proportions importantes d'os calcinés. Ces résultats (i) supportent l'hypothèse selon laquelle les occupants de ce siteétaient originaires du nord-ouest du continent et furent déplacés par le biais du système de travail forcé imposé ...

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“…Principles of isotopic variation Strontium ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) isotope analyses is the most widely used isotopic method for archeological studies of human (e.g., Ericson 1985;Price et al 1994;Sealy et al 1995) and animal (e.g., Balasse et al 2002;Gakuhari et al 2013;Guiry et al 2015;Hartman et al 2015;Price et al 2015;Thornton 2011), mobility, migration, and provenance studies. The principle of this method is that the strontium isotope composition of skeletal tissues is in equilibrium with that of the local biogeochemical environment, as Sr passes from rocks, via soils, into and through local food webs (Ericson 1985;Price et al 2002).…”

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Sourcing nonnative mammal remains from Dos Mosquises Island, Venezuela: new multiple isotope evidence

Laffoon

Sonnemann

Antczak

et al. 2016

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Archeological excavations of Amerindian sites on Dos Mosquises Island, Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela, uncovered a wide range of evidence reflecting seasonal exploitation of local resources and multiple ritual depositions of large quantities of ceramic figurines, lithics, and faunal remains. Zooarchaeological analysis revealed the presence of modified and unmodified bones and teeth from numerous imported mammal species. Local geographic and environmental conditions preclude permanent establishment of terrestrial mammal populations and as such, there are no native mammalian taxa on the island itself or the surrounding oceanic archipelago. The presence of these faunal remains on Dos Mosquises can be attributed to the intentional movement of animal resources from the mainland to Los Roques by indigenous groups in the Late Ceramic Age (~AD 1200-1500). Despite attributions to a mainland source region, little else is known about the origins of these unique specimens. Here, we apply strontium (87 Sr/ 86 Sr), oxygen (δ 18 O), and carbon (δ 13 C) isotope analyses of tooth enamel from various archeologically recovered taxa including deer, peccary, tapir, ocelot, margay, opossum, fox, and weasel to investigate their geographic origins via comparisons with macro-regional models of precipitation δ 18 O and bioavailable 87 Sr/ 86 Sr. The 87 Sr/ 86 Sr results are highly variable both for the overall assemblage and between specimens within the same taxa, indicating origins from different geochemical environments of mainland South America. The combined archeological and isotopic evidence are consistent with origins within the late pre-colonial Valencioid Sphere of Interaction which encompassed the Lake Valencia Basin, surrounding regions, and several offshore island groups including Los Roques archipelago.

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Tracing historical animal husbandry, meat trade, and food provisioning: A multi-isotopic approach to the analysis of shipwreck faunal remains from the William Salthouse, Port Phillip, Australia

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RADIOCARBON PROTOCOLS AND FIRST INTERCOMPARISON RESULTS FROM THE CHRONOS ¹⁴CARBON-CYCLE FACILITY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

RADIOCARBON PROTOCOLS AND FIRST INTERCOMPARISON RESULTS FROM THE CHRONOS ¹⁴CARBON-CYCLE FACILITY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

Island survival: The anthracological and archaeofaunal evidence for colonial‐era events on Barrow Island, north‐west Australia

Sourcing nonnative mammal remains from Dos Mosquises Island, Venezuela: new multiple isotope evidence

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Tracing historical animal husbandry, meat trade, and food provisioning: A multi-isotopic approach to the analysis of shipwreck faunal remains from the William Salthouse, Port Phillip, Australia

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RADIOCARBON PROTOCOLS AND FIRST INTERCOMPARISON RESULTS FROM THE CHRONOS 14CARBON-CYCLE FACILITY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

RADIOCARBON PROTOCOLS AND FIRST INTERCOMPARISON RESULTS FROM THE CHRONOS 14CARBON-CYCLE FACILITY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

Island survival: The anthracological and archaeofaunal evidence for colonial‐era events on Barrow Island, north‐west Australia

Sourcing nonnative mammal remains from Dos Mosquises Island, Venezuela: new multiple isotope evidence

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RADIOCARBON PROTOCOLS AND FIRST INTERCOMPARISON RESULTS FROM THE CHRONOS ¹⁴CARBON-CYCLE FACILITY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

RADIOCARBON PROTOCOLS AND FIRST INTERCOMPARISON RESULTS FROM THE CHRONOS ¹⁴CARBON-CYCLE FACILITY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA