Morphometric and taphonomic analysis of granular ark (Anadara granosa) dominated shell deposits of Blue Mud Bay, northern Australia

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1942-1952

  Faulkner, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIVALVE; LINEARITY; MORPHOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHELL; SKEWNESS; TAPHONOMY;

AUSTRALIA; BLUE MUD BAY; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

BIVALVIA; MOLLUSCA; TEGILLARCA GRANOSA;

EID: 77953960208     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.02.021     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Andrews M.V., Gilbertson D.D., Kent M., Mellars P.A. Biometric studies of morphological variation in the intertidal gastropod Nucella lapillus (L): environmental and palaeoeconomic significance. Journal of Biogeography 1985, 12:71-87.
2. Antczak A., Posada J.M., Schapira D., Antczak M.M., Cipriani R., Montano I. A history of human ipact on the Queen Conch (Strombus gigas) in Venezuela. BAR International Series 2008, vol. 1865:49-64. A. Antczak, R. Cipriani (Eds.).
3. Baez P.R., Jackson D.S. Exploitation of loco, Concholepas concholepas (Gastropoda: Muricidae), during the Holocene of Norte Semiarido, Chile. BAR International Series 2008, vol. 1865:79-94. A. Antczak, R. Cipriani (Eds.).
4. Bailey G.N. The role of molluscs in coastal economies: the results of midden analysis in Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science 1975, 2:45-62.
5. Bailey G. Shell mounds in 1972 and 1992: reflections on recent controversies at Ballina and Weipa. Australian Archaeology 1993, 37:1-18.
6. Bailey G.N., Craighead A.S. Late Pleistocene and Holocene coastal palaeoeconomies: a reconsideration of the molluscan evidence from Northern Spain. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 2003, 18:175-204.
7. Bailey G., Barrett J., Craig O., Milner N. Historical ecology of the North Sea Basin: an archaeological perspective and some problems of methodology. Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: a Global Perspective 2008, 215-242. University of California Press, Berkeley. T.C. Rick, J.M. Erlandson (Eds.).
8. Bailey G.N., Milner N. Molluscan archives from European Prehistory. BAR International Series 2008, vol. 1865:111-134. A. Antczak, R. Cipriani (Eds.).
9. Bourke, P., 2000. Late Holocene Indigenous Economies of the Tropical Australian Coast: an Archaeological Study of the Darwin region. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, Northern Territory University, Darwin.
10. Bourke P. Shell mounds and stone axes: prehistoric resource procurement strategies at Hope Inlet, Northern Australia. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin 2002, 22:35-44.
11. Braje T.J., Kennett D.J., Erlandson J.M., Culleton B.J. Human impacts on nearshore shellfish taxa: a 7000 year record from Santa Rosa Island, California. American Antiquity 2007, 72:735-756.
12. Broom M.J. The biology and culture of marine bivalve molluscs of the genus Anadara. ICLARM Studies and Reviews 12 1985, International Centre for Living Aquatic Resources Management, Manila, Philippines.
13. Buchanan W.F. Middens and mussels: an archaeological enquiry. South African Journal of Science 1985, 81:15-16.
14. Cabral J.P., da Silva A.C.F. Morphometric analysis of limpets from an Iron-Age shell midden found in northwest Portugal. Journal of Archaeological Science 2003, 30:817-829.
15. Claassen C.L. Shells 1998, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
16. Erlandson J.M., Rick T.C., Braje T.J., Steinberg A., Vellanoweth R.L. Human impacts on ancient shellfish: a 10,000 year record from San Miguel Island, California. Journal of Archaeological Science 2008, 35:2144-2152.
17. Faulkner, P., 2006. The Ebb and Flow: An Archaeological Investigation of Late Holocene Economic Variability on the Coastal Margin of Blue Mud Bay, Northeast Australia. Unpublished PhD dissertation, Australian National University, Canberra.
18. Faulkner P. Patterns of chronological variability in occupation on the coastal margin of Blue Mud Bay. Archaeology in Oceania 2008, 43:81-88.
19. Faulkner P. Focused, intense and long-term: evidence for granular ark (Anadara granosa) exploitation from late Holocene shell mounds of Blue Mud Bay, northern Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science 2009, 36:821-834.
20. Ford P.J. Molluscan assemblages from archaeological deposits. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 1989, 4:157-173.
21. Gardner J.P.A., Thompson R.J. Hi levels of shared allozyme polymorphism among strongly differentiated congeneric clams of the genus Astarte (Bivalvia: Mollusca). Heredity 1999, 82:89-99.
22. Hall M. A method for obtaining metrical data from fragmentary molluscan material found at archaeological sites. South African Journal of Science 1980, 76:280-281.
23. Hiscock P. The Need for a Taphonomic Perspective in Stone Artefact Analysis. Queensland Archaeological Research 1985, 2:82-97.
24. Hiscock P. Archaeological evidence for environmental change in Darwin Harbour. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia. Proceedings of the Sixth International Marine Biological Workshop 1997, 445-449. Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory and the Marine Sciences Association, Darwin. J.R. Hanley, G. Caswell, D. Megirian, H.K. Larson (Eds.).
25. Hiscock P. Holocene coastal occupation of western Arnhem Land. Research Papers in Archaeology and Natural History No. 31 1999, 91-103. ANH Publications, Department of Archaeology and Natural History, RSPAS, The Australian Natural University, Canberra. J. Hall, I.J. McNiven (Eds.).
26. Hiscock P. The Archaeology of Ancient Australia 2008, Routledge, London.
27. Hughen K.A., Baillie M.G.L., Bard E., Bayliss A., Beck J.W., Bertrand C.J.H., Blackwell P.G., Buck C.E., Burr G.S., Cutler K.B., Damon P.E., Edwards R.L., Fairbanks R.G., Friedrich M., Guilderson T.P., Kromer B., McCormac F.G., Manning S.W., Bronk Ramsey C., Reimer P.J., Reimer R.W., Remmele S., Southon J.R., Stuiver M., Talamo S., Taylor F.W., van der Plicht J., Weyhenmeyer C.E. Marine04 Marine radiocarbon age calibration, 26-0kaBP. Radiocarbon 2004, 46:1059-1086.
28. Jerardino A. Changes in shellfish species composition and mean shell size from a Late-Holocene record of the West Coast of Southern Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 1997, 24:1031-1044.
29. Jerardino A., Castilla J.C., Ramirez J.M., Hermosilla N. Early coastal subsistence patterns in Central Chile: a systematic study of the marine-invertebrate fauna from the site of Curaumilla-1. Latin American Antiquity 1992, 3:43-62.
30. Jerardino A., Branch G.M., Navarro R. Human impact on precolonial west coast marine environments of South Africa. Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: a Global Perspective 2008, 279-296. University of California Press, Berkeley. T.C. Rick, J.M. Erlandson (Eds.).
31. Jerardino A., Navarro R. Shell morphometry of seven limpet species from coastal shell middens in southern Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 2008, 35:1023-1029.
32. Jerardino A., Yates R. Excavations at Mike Taylor's Midden: a summary report and implications for a re-characterisation of Megamiddens. The South African Archaeological Bulletin 1997, 52:43-51.
33. Jones T.L., Richman J.R. On mussels: Mytilus californianus as a prehistoric resource. North American Archaeologist 1995, 16:33-58.
34. Keegan W.F., Portell R.W., Slapcinsky J. Changes in invertebrate taxa at two pre-Columbian sites in southwestern Jamaica, AD 800-1500. Journal of Archaeological Science 2003, 30:1607-1617.
35. Lamprell K., Healy J. Bivalves of Australia 1998, vol. 2. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.
36. Lightfoot K.G., Cerrato R.M. Prehistoric shellfish exploitation in coastal New York. Journal of Field Archaeology 1988, 15:141-149.
37. Mannino M.A., Thomas K.D. Intensive Mesolithic exploitation of coastal resources? Evidence from a shell deposit on the Isle of Portland (Southern England) for the impact of human foraging on populations of intertidal rocky shore molluscs. Journal of Archaeological Science 2001, 28:1101-1114.
38. Mannino M.A., Thomas K.D. Depletion of a resource? The impact of prehistoric human foraging on intertidal mollusc communities and its significance for human settlement, mobility and dispersal. World Archaeology 2002, 33:452-474.
39. Marelli D.C., Arnold W.S. Shell morphologies of Bay Scallops, Argopecten irradians, from extant and prehistoric populations from the Florida Gulf Coast: implications for the biology of past and present metapopulations. Journal of Archaeological Science 2001, 28:577-586.
40. Masse W.B., Liston J., Carucci J., Athens J.S. Evaluating the effects of climate change on environment, resource depletion, and culture in the Palau Islands between AD 1200 and 1600. Quaternary International 2006, 151:106-132.
41. Milner N., Barrett J., Welsh J. Marine resource intensification in Viking Age Europe: the molluscan evidence from Quoygrew, Orkney. Journal of Archaeological Science 2007, 34:1461-1472.
42. Morrison A.E., Cochrane E.E. Investigating shellfish deposition and landscape history at the Natia Beach site, Fiji. Journal of Archaeological Science 2008, 35:2387-2399.
43. Morrison M. Old boundaries and new horizons: the Weipa shell mounds reconsidered. Archaeology in Oceania 2003, 38:1-8.
44. Muckle R.J. Archaeological Considerations of Bivalve Shell Taphonomy 1985, Simon Fraser University.
45. Nielsen N. Marine molluscs in Danish Stone Age Middens: a case study on Krabbesholm II. BAR International Series 2008, vol. 1865:157-167. A. Antczak, R. Cipriani (Eds.).
46. Parkington J. Limpet sizes in Stone Age archaeological contexts at the Cape, South Africa: changing environment or human impact?. BAR International Series 2008, vol. 1865:169-178. A. Antczak, R. Cipriani (Eds.).
47. Pathansali D., Soong M.K. Some aspects of cockle (Anadara granosa L.) culture in Malaya. Proceedings of the Indo-Pacific Fisheries Council 1958, 8:26-31.
48. Peacock E. Assessing bias in archaeological shell assemblages. Journal of Field Archaeology 2000, 27:183-196.
49. Peacock E., Mistak S. Freshwater mussel (Unionidae) remains from the Bilbo Basin Site, Mississippi, U.S.A.: archaeological considerations and resource management implications. Archaeofauna: International Journal of Zooarchaeology 2008, 17:9-20.
50. Peacock E., Seltzer J.L. A comparison of multiple proxy data sets for palaeoenvironmental conditions as derived from freshwater bivalve (Unionid) shell. Journal of Archaeological Science 2008, 35:2557-2565.
51. Poutiers J.M. Bivalves (Acephala, Lamellibranchia, Pelecypoda). Seaweeds, Corals, Bivalves and Gastropods, FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes 1998, vol. 1:124-362. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. K.E. Carpenter, V.H. Niem (Eds.).
52. Randklev C.R., Wolverton S., Kennedy J.H. A biometric technique for assessing prehistoric freshwater mussel population dynamics (family: Unionidae) in north Texas. Journal of Archaeological Science 2009, 36:205-213.
53. Reimer P.J., Reimer R.W. 2000. Marine Reservoir Correction Database Available from:, (accessed7.01.08). http://calib.qub.ac.uk/marine.
54. Rick T.C., Erlandson J.M., Braje T.J., Estes J.A., Graham M.H., Vellanoweth R.L. Historical ecology and human impacts on coastal ecosystems of the Santa Barbara Channel region, California. Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: a Global Perspective 2008, 77-101. University of California Press, Berkeley. T.C. Rick, J.M. Erlandson (Eds.).
55. Sokal R.R., Rohlf F.J. Biometry 1969, Freeman Press, San Francisco.
56. Spennemann D.H.R. Availability of shellfish resources on prehistoric Tongatapu, Tonga: effects of human predation and changing environment. Archaeology in Oceania 1987, 22:81-96.
57. Stein J.K. Sediment analysis of the British Camp Shell Midden. Deciphering a Shell Midden 1992, 135-162. Academic Press, San Diego. J.K. Stein (Ed.).
58. Stuiver M., Reimer P.J. Extended 14C database and revised CALIB radiocarbon calibration program. Radiocarbon 1993, 35:215-230.
59. Swadling P. Changes induced by human exploitation in prehistoric shellfish populations. Mankind 1976, 10:156-162.
60. Swadling P. Central Province shellfish resources and their utilisation in the prehistoric past of Papua New Guinea. The Veliger 1977, 19:293-302.
61. Tiensongrusmee, B., Pontjoprawiro, S., 1988. Cockle culture. INS/81/008/Manual 12.
62. Ulm S. Coastal Themes: an Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland 2006, ANU E Press, Canberra.
63. Whitaker A.R. Incipient aquaculture in prehistoric California? Long-term productivity and sustainability vs. immediate returns for the harvest of marine invertebrates. Journal of Archaeological Science 2008, 35:1114-1123.
64. Wolverton S., Randklev C.R., Kennedy J.H. A conceptual model for freshwater mussel (family: Unionidae) remain preservation in zooarchaeological assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science 2009, 37:164-173.
65. Yamazaki T., Oda S. Changes in shell gathering in an early agricultural society at the head of Ise Bay, Japan. Journal of Archaeological Science 2009, 36:2007-2011.
66. Zuschin M., Stachowitsch M., Stanton R.J. Patterns and processes of shell fragmentation in modern and ancient marine environments. Earth-Science Reviews 2003, 63(1-2):33-82.
67. Zuschin M., Stanton R.J. Experimental measurement of shell strength and its taphonomic interpretation. Palaios 2001, 16:161-170.