Late Holocene Occupational Cycles at Toyon Bay, Santa Catalina Island, Alta California
| Autor: | Judith F. Porcasi, Hugh Radde |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology Megastraea 060102 archaeology biology Ecology Fish species Vertebrate 06 humanities and the arts biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Geography Taxon biology.animal Lithopoma 0601 history and archaeology Bay Holocene Shellfish 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | California Archaeology. 9:21-51 |
| ISSN: | 1947-4628 1947-461X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1947461x.2017.1292438 |
| Popis: | Excavated nearly five decades ago, the Toyon Bay site (CA-SCAI-564) on Catalina Island remained undocumented until recently (Radde 2015). Now, working with a retained column sample that yielded more than 12,600 vertebrate specimens weighing more than 2,435 g and more than 4,220 g of shellfish remains, we present a comprehensive archaeofaunal analysis that reveals a cyclic progression of three distinct Late Holocene occupational phases supported by use of diverse fish species and a single shellfish taxon, Megastraea (formerly Lithopoma) undosa (wavy top turban snail). Each occupational phase repeats a pattern of escalating use of fish and the wavy top snail over time, followed by abrupt declines in the use of these resources, signaling the onset of short-term inter-occupational hiatuses. Why each occupational phase declined is not known, nor can the nature of the inter-occupational hiatuses be discerned. However, while the overall pattern of subsistence procurement is the same in each phase, propor... |
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