Evaluating Ancient Whale Exploitation on the Northern Oregon Coast Through Ancient DNA and Zooarchaeological Analysis
| Autor: | Dongya Y. Yang, Torben C. Rick, Hannah P. Wellman, Antonia T. Rodrigues |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology History 060102 archaeology Ecology biology Balaenoptera Whale Subsistence agriculture Harpoon 06 humanities and the arts Oceanography biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Archaeology Humpback whale Geography Ancient DNA biology.animal 0601 history and archaeology Whaling Zooarchaeology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. 12:255-275 |
| ISSN: | 1556-1828 1556-4894 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15564894.2016.1172382 |
| Popis: | Whales have long been an important part of Pacific Northwest Coast human subsistence and lifeways. Native peoples on the Oregon Coast were not known to hunt whales, but a humpback whale phalange with an embedded bone harpoon at the Par-Tee site (35CLT20) and ethnographic accounts raised the possibility of opportunistic whale hunting. We analyzed a suite of whale remains from Par-Tee and performed ancient DNA-based species identifications on 30 specimens. The assemblage includes gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus, 60.7% of the assemblage), humpbacks (Megaptera novaeangliae, 32.1%), minkes (Balaenoptera acutorostrata, 3.6%), and orcas (Orcinus orca, 3.6%). While the species composition is similar to those found in archaeological deposits from systematic whaling areas in Washington and Vancouver Island, bone modification patterns and element representation reveal important differences. Our analysis demonstrates that whales were likely a supplementary part of human subsistence at Par-Tee and, while op... |
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