Sampling fish bones: A consideration of the importance of screen size and disposal context in the North Pacific

Arctic Anthropology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-79

  Partlow, Megan A ^a  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; FISHERY; PREHISTORIC; SKELETAL REMAINS; TAXONOMY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 33748338754     PISSN: 00666939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/arc.2011.0064     Document Type: Article

References (85)

1. Ames, Kenneth M. 1981 The Evolution of Social Ranking on the Northwest Coast of North America. American Antiquity 46:789-805.
2. Ames, Kenneth M. 1985 Hierarchies, Stress, and Logistical Strategies among Hunter-Gatherers in Northwestern North America. In Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers: The Emergence of Cultural Complexity. T. Douglas Price and James A. Brown, eds. Pp. 155-180. San Diego: Academic Press.
3. Ames, Kenneth M. 1994 The Northwest Coast: Complex Hunter-Gatherers, Ecology, and Social Evolution. Annual Review of Anthropology 23:209-229.
4. Ames, Kenneth M. and Herbert D. G. Maschner 1999 Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd.
5. Autrey, John 1989 Archaeological Fieldwork Activities During 1989 - Southeastern Alaska. Alaska Anthropological Association Newsletter 14:10-11.
6. Barrett, James H. 1997 Fish Trade in North Orkney and Caithness: A Zooarchaeological Approach. Antiquity 71:616-638.
7. Basgall, M.E. 1987 Resource Intensification among Hunter-Gatherers: Acorn Economies in Prehistoric California. In Research in Economic Anthropology, vol. 9. Barry L. Isaac, ed. Pp. 21-52. Greenwich: JAI Press Inc.
8. Bean, Tarleton H. 1891 Report on the Salmon and Salmon Rivers of Alaska, with Notes on the Conditions, Methods, and Needs of the Salmon Fisheries. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 9:165-208.
9. Beaton, J. M. 1991 Extensification and Intensification in Central California Prehistory. Antiquity 65:946-952.
10. Bender, Barbara 1981 Gatherer-Hunter Intensification. In Economic Archaeology: Towards an Integration of Ecological and Social Approaches. Alison Sheridan and Geoff Bailey, eds. Pp. 149-158. Oxford: BAR International Series, 96.
11. Binford, Lewis R. 1984 Butchering, Sharing, and the Archaeological Record. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 3:235-257.
12. Bowers, Peter M. and Madonna L. Moss 2001 The North Point Wet Site and the Subsistence Importance of Pacific Cod on the Northern Northwest Coast. In People and Wildlife in Northern North America, Essays in Honor of R. Dale Guthrie. S. Craig Gerlach and Maribeth S. Murray, eds. Pp. 159-177. Oxford: BAR International Series, 944.
13. Bunn, Henry T. 1982 Meat-Eating and Human Evolution: Studies on the Diet and Subsistence Patterns of Plio-Pleistocene Hominids in East Africa. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.
14. Butler, Virginia L. 1993 Natural Versus Cultural Salmonid Remains: Origin of the Dalles Roadcut Bones, Columbia River, Oregon, U.S.A. Journal of Archaeological Science 20:1-24.
15. Butler, Virginia L. and Sarah K. Campbell 2004 Resource Intensification and Resource Depression in the Pacific Northwest of North America: A Zooarchaeological Review. Journal of World Prehistory 18:327-405.
16. Butler, Virginia L. and James C. Chatters 1994 The Role of Bone Density in Structuring Prehistoric Salmon Bone Assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science 21:413-424.
17. Cannon, Aubrey 1991 The Economic Prehistory of Namu. Burnaby: Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University.
18. Cannon, Aubrey 1998 Contingency and Agency in the Growth of Northwest Coast Maritime Economies. Arctic Anthropology 35:57-67.
19. Cannon, Aubrey 2001 Was Salmon Important in Northwest Coast Prehistory? In People and Wildlife in Northern North America, Essays in Honor of R. Dale Guthrie. S. Craig Gerlach and Maribeth S. Murray, eds. Pp. 178-187. Oxford: BAR International Series, 944.
20. Casteel, Richard W. 1972 Some Archaeological Uses of Fish Remains. American Antiquity 37:404-419.
21. Casteel, Richard W. 1976 Comparison of Column and Whole Unit Samples for Recovering Fish Remains. World Archaeology 8:192-196.
22. Chartkoff, Joseph L. 1989 Exchange, Subsistence, and Sedentism along the Middle Klamath River. In Research in Economic Anthropology, vol. 11. Barry L. Isaac, ed. Pp. 285-203. Greenwich: JAI Press Inc.
23. Clark, Donald W. 1964 Incised Figurine Tablets from Kodiak, Alaska. Arctic Anthropology 2:118-134.
24. Clark, Donald W. 1986 Archaeological and Historical Evidence for an Eighteenth Century "Blip" in the Distribution of the Northern Fur Seal at Kodiak Island, Alaska. Arctic 39:39-42.
25. Colley, Sarah M. 1990 The Analysis and Interpretation of Archaeological Fish Remains. In Archaeological Method and Theory, vol. 2. Michael B. Schiffer, ed. Pp. 2207-2253. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
26. Croes, Dale R. and Steven Hackenberger 1988 Hoko River Archaeological Complex: Modeling Prehistoric Northwest Coast Economic Evolution. In Prehistoric Economies of the Pacific Coast. Barry L. Isaac, ed. Pp. 19-86. Greenwich: JAI Press Inc.
27. Crowell, Aron 1988 Prehistory of Alaska's Pacific Coast. In Crossroads of the Continents. William W. Fitzhugh and Aron Crowell, eds. Pp. 130-141. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
28. Davydov, G. I. 1977 Two Voyages to Russian America, 1802-1807. Richard A. Pierce, ed., Coline Bearne, trans. Materials for the Study of Alaska History, 10. Ontario: The Limestone Press.
29. Donta, Christopher 1995 Alutiiq Incised Stones of Southern Alaska. Paper presented at the 60th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, May 1995.
30. Emmons, George Thorton 1991 The Tlingit Indians. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
31. Erlandson, Jon, Aron Crowell, Christopher Wooley, and James Haggarty 1992 Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Alutiiq Paleodemography. Arctic Anthropology 29: 42-62.
32. Erlandson, Jon M., Mark A. Tveskov, and R. Scott Byram 1998 The Development of Maritime Adaptations on the Southern Northwest Coast of North America. Arctic Anthropology 35:6-22.
33. Fitzhugh, J. Benjamin 2003 The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeological Evidence from the North Pacific. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
34. Fladmark, Knut R. 1975 A Paleoecological Model for Northwest Coast Prehistory. National Museum of Man Mercury Series, Archaeological Survey of Canada Paper, 43. Ottawa.
35. Gideon, Hieromonk 1989 The Round the World Voyage of Hieromonk Gideon 1803-1809. Richard A. Pierce, ed., Lydia T. Black, trans. Alaska History, 32; Alaska State Library Historical Monograph, 9. Kingston: Limestone Press.
36. Gordon, Claire C. and Jane E. Buikstra 1981 Soil pH, Bone Preservation, and Sampling Bias at Mortuary Sites. American Antiquity 46:566-571.
37. Grayson, Donald K. 1984 Quantitative Zooarchaeology: Topics in the Analysis of Archaeological Faunas. Orlando: Academic Press.
38. Gregory, W. K. 1993 Fish Skulls: A Study of the Evolution of Natural Mechanisms. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 23:75-481.
39. Hanson, Diane Kay 1991 Late Prehistoric Subsistence in the Strait of Georgia Region of the Northwest Coast. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University.
40. Hayden, Brian 1997 The Pithouses of Keatley Creek. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace.
41. Hoffman, Brian W., Jessica M. C. Czederpiltz, and Megan A. Partlow 2000 Heads or Tails: The Zooarchaeology of Aleut Salmon Storage on Unimak Island. Alaska, Journal of Archaeological Science 27:699-708.
42. Holmberg, Heinrich Johan 1985 Holmberg's Ethnographic Sketches. Marvin W. Falk, ed., Fritz Jaensch, trans. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.
43. Hutchinson-Scarbrough, Lisa and James A. Fall 1996 An Overview of Subsistence Salmon and Other Subsistence Fisheries of the Chignik Management Area, Alaska Peninsula, Southwest Alaska. Technical Paper, 230. Juneau: Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence.
44. James, Steven R. 1997 Methodological Issues Concerning Screen Size Recovery Rates and Their Effects on Archaeofaunal Interpretations. Journal of Archaeological Science 24:385-397.
45. Jones, Terry L. 1991 Marine-Resource Value and the Priority of Coastal Settlement: A California Perspective. American Antiquity 419-443.
46. Jordan, Richard H. and Richard A. Knecht 1988 Archaeological Research on Western Kodiak Island, Alaska: The Development of Koniag Culture. In Late Prehistoric Development of Alaska's Native People. R. D. Shaw, R. K. Harritt, and D. E. Dumond, eds. Pp. 225-306. Aurora IV. Anchorage: Alaska Anthropological Association.
47. Kennedy, Dorothy I. D. and Randy Bouchard 1992 Stl'atl'imx (Fraser Lillooet) Fishing. In A Complex Culture of the British Columbia Plateau. Brian Hayden, ed. Pp. 266-354. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
48. Kopperl, Robert E. 2003 Cultural Complexity and Resource Intensification on Kodiak Island, Alaska. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington.
49. Kopperl, Robert E. and Virginia Butler 2001 Faunal Analysis: Fish Remains, In Vashon Island Archaeology: A View from Burton Acres Shell Midden. Julie K. Stein and Laura S. Phillips, eds. Pp. 105-118. Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Research Report, 8. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
50. Lubinski, Patrick M. 1996 Fish Heads, Fish Heads: An Experiment on Differential Bone Preservation in a Salmonid Fish. Journal of Archaeological Science 23:175-181.
51. Lyman, R. Lee 1984 Bone Density and Differential Survivorship of Fossil Classes. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 3:259-299.
52. Lyman, R. Lee 1994 Vertebrate Taphonomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
53. Maschner, Herbert D. G. 1997 Settlement and Subsistence in the Later Prehistory of Tebenkof Bay, Kuiu Island, Southeast Alaska. Arctic Anthropology 34:74-99.
54. Maschner, Herbert D. G. and James W. Jordan 2001 The Russell Creek Manifestation of the Arctic Small Tool Tradition on the Western Alaska Peninsula. In Archaeology in the Aleut Zone of Alaska, Some Recent Research. Don E. Dumond, ed. Pp. 151-172. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers, 58, Eugene: Department of Anthropology and the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon.
55. Matson, R. G. 1983 Intensification and the Development of Cultural Complexity: The Northwest Versus the Northeast Coast. In The Evolution of Maritime Cultures on the Northeast and the Northwest Coasts of America. Ronald J. Nash, ed. Pp. 125-148. Department of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University.
56. Matson, R. G. and Gary Coupland 1995 The Prehistory of the Northwest Coast. San Diego: Academic Press.
57. Matsui, Akira 1996 Archaeological Investigations of Anadromous Salmonid Fishing in Japan. World Archaeology 27:444-460.
58. Monks, Gregory G. 1987 Prey as Bait: the Deep Bay Example. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 11:119-142.
59. Moss, Madonna L. 1989 Archaeology and Cultural Ecology of the Prehistoric Angoon Tlingit. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of California.
60. Moss, Madonna L. 2004 The Status of Archaeology and Archaeological Practice in Southeast Alaska in Relation to the Larger Northwest Coast. Arctic Anthropology 41:177-196.
61. Moss, Madonna L., Jon M. Erlandson, and Robert Stuckenrath 1989 The Antiquity of Tlingit Settlement on Admiralty Island, Southeast Alaska. American Antiquity 54:534-543.
62. Nagaoka, Lisa 2005 Differential Recovery of Pacific Island Fish Remains. Journal of Archaeological Science: 941-955.
63. Norton, Christopher J., Byungmo Kim, and Kdong Bae 1999 Differential Processing of Fish during the Korean Neolithic: Konram-Ri. Arctic Anthropology 36:151-165.
64. Oberg, Kalervo 1973 The Social Economy of the Tlingit Indian. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
65. Partlow, Megan A. n.d. Salmonopia and Screen Size: Examining the Importance of Salmon at the Settlement Point Site, Afognak Island. Paper presented at the 25th annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage, March, 1998.
66. Partlow, Megan A. 2000 Salmon Intensification and Changing Household Organization in the Kodiak Archipelago. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin.
67. Price, T. Douglas and James A. Brown, eds. 1985 Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers: The Emergence of Cultural Complexity. Orlando: Academic Press.
68. Reger, Douglas S. 1998 Archaeology of the Northern Kenai Peninsula and Upper Cook Inlet. Arctic Anthropology 35:160-171.
69. Romanoff, Steven 1992 Fraser Lillooet Salmon Fishing. In A Complex Culture of the British Columbia Plateau. Brian Hayden, ed. Pp. 222-265. Vancouver: UBC Press.
70. Ross, Anne and Ryan Duffy 2000 Fine Mesh Screening of Midden Material and the Recovery of Fish Bone: The Development of Flotation and Deflocculation Techniques for an Efficient and Effective Procedure. Geoarchaeology 15:21-41.
71. Saltonstall, Patrick G. 1995 Excavations at Settlement Point (AFG 015) Preliminary Report of the 1995 Field Season. Report Prepared for the Afognak Native Corporation. October, 1995. On file at the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, Alaska.
72. Saltonstall, Patrick G. 1996 Settlement Point (AFG 015) Preliminary Report from the 1996 Field Season. Report Prepared for the Afognak Native Corporation, October, 1996. On file Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, Alaska.
73. Saltonstall, Patrick G. 1997 Archaeology at Settlement Point 1997 Preliminary Report. Report Prepared for the Afognak Native Corporation, November, 1997. On file Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, Alaska.
74. Saltonstall, Patrick G. and Gary Carver 2002 Earthquakes, Subsidence, Prehistoric Site Attrition and the Archaeological Record: A View from the Settlement Point Site, Kodiak Achipelago, Alaska. In Natural Disasters and Cultural Change. R. Torrence and J. Grattan, eds. Pp. 172-192. London: Routledge.
75. Schalk, Randall F. 1977 The Structure of an Anadromous Fish Resource. In For Theory Building in Archaeology. Lewis R. Binford, ed. Pp. 207-249. New York: Academic Press.
76. Shaffer, Brian S. 1992 Quarter-Inch Screening: Understanding Biases in Recovery. American Antiquity 57:129-136.
77. Stewart, Hilary 1977 Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
78. Stuiver, Minze and Paula. J. Reimer 1993 Extended 14C Data Base and Revised Calib 3.0 14C Age Calibration Program. Radiocarbon 35:215-230.
79. Thomas, David Hurst 1969 Great Basin Hunting Patterns: A Quantitative Method for Treating Faunal Remains. American Antiquity 34:393-401.
80. Wheeler, Alwyne and Andrew K.G. Jones 1989 Fishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
81. White, E. M. and L. A. Hannus 1983 Chemical Weathering of Bone in Archaeological Soils. American Antiquity 48:316-322.
82. Workman, William B. and Donald W. Clark 1979 Appendix: The Remaining 3800 Years of Prehistory and Contact History at Afognak Bay. In Ocean Bay: An Early North Pacific Maritime Culture, by Donald W. Clark. Pp. 243-332. National Museum of Man Mercury Series. Archaeological Survey of Canada Paper, 86. National Museums of Canada, Ottawa.
83. Yarborough, Linda Finn 2000 Prehistoric and Early Historic Subsistence Patterns along the North Gulf of Alaska Coast. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin.
84. Yesner, David R. 1998 Origins and Development of Maritime Adaptations in the Northwest Pacific Region of North America: A Zooarchaeological Perspective. Arctic Anthropology 35:204-222.
85. Zohar, Irit and Miriam Belmaker 2005 Size Does Matter: Methodological Comments on Sieve Size and Species Richness in Fishbone Assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science 32:635-641.