Pre-Hispanic fishing practices in interfluvial Amazonia: Zooarchaeological evidence from managed landscapes on the Llanos de Mojos savanna
| Autor: | Philippe Béarez, Carla Jaimes Betancourt, Myrtle P. Shock, Heiko Prümers, Gabriela Prestes-Carneiro |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Archéozoologie, archéobotanique : sociétés, pratiques et environnements (AASPE), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Marine and Aquatic Sciences
Social Sciences Transportation Plant Science 01 natural sciences Hoplias malabaricus 0601 history and archaeology History Ancient Multidisciplinary 060102 archaeology biology Ecology Amazon rainforest Flooding (psychology) Fishes Eukaryota 06 humanities and the arts Synbranchus Transportation Infrastructure Terrestrial Environments Freshwater Fish Geography Hoplosternum Archaeology Grasslands Vertebrates Freshwater fish Medicine Engineering and Technology Research Article Freshwater Environments 010506 paleontology Bolivia [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory Science Fishing Fisheries Civil Engineering Bone and Bones Rivers Surface Water Animals Ponds Plant Communities 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Plant Ecology Ecology and Environmental Sciences Organisms Biology and Life Sciences Aquatic Environments 15. Life on land Bodies of Water biology.organism_classification Fishery Fish Period (geology) Earth Sciences Canals Hydrology |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science, 2019, ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0214638⟩ PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 5, p e0214638 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0214638⟩ |
| Popis: | International audience; Recent evidence suggests the existence of Pre-Hispanic fisheries in savanna areas of the Amazon basin. How these fisheries may have functioned is still poorly known. Although many studies have drawn attention to how Pre-Hispanic inhabitants of these savannas managed to deal with excess water, little attention has been paid to understanding how large and permanent populations were sustained during long periods of drought. In the Llanos de Mojos, one of the largest savannas in South America, the landscape is greatly affected by the impacts of annual, seasonal flooding and inundations, alternating with a dry period that can last 4-6 months. The fishing practices in this area were studied on the basis of analysis of more than 17,000 fish remains recovered at Loma Salvatierra, a monumental mound located in an interfluvial area 50 km from the Mamoré River and occupied between 500 and 1400 AD. In Loma Salvatierra, a network of circular walled ponds connected to a system of canals has been identified, raising questions about a possible use of these structures for fishing. The exceptional conservation of the bone material has enabled precise taxonomic identification of more than 35 taxa, the richest fish spectrum thus far documented in the Mojos region. The dominant fish, swamp-eels (Synbranchus spp.), armored catfishes (Hoplosternum spp.), lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa), and tiger-fish (Hoplias malabaricus) are characteristic of shallow and stagnant waters. Our work documents the first zooarchaeo-logical evidence of a dryland, interfluvial fishing system in the Bolivian Amazon that incorporates distinct species and fishing practices, demonstrating that these regions contain year round resources. Research is taking its first steps toward understanding landscape modifications , fish environments, and specific cultural technologies employed on this and other lowland neotropical savannas that differ from those for fishing in open waters and rivers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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