Temporal trends in prehistoric fishing in Palau, Micronesia over the last 1500 years

Archaeology in Oceania

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-16

  Fitzpatrick, Scott M ^a   Giovas, Christina M ^b   Kataoka, Osamu ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c KANSAI GAIDAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chelechol ra Orrak; Fishing; Pacific; Prehistoric; Western Caroline islands

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954517316     PISSN: 07284896     EISSN: 18344453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2011.tb00094.x     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Allen, MS 1992. temporal variation in polynesian Fishing Strategies: the Southern Cook islands in regional perspective. Asian Perspectives 31:183-204.
2. Allen, MS 2002. resolving Long-term Change in polynesian Marine Fisheries. Asian Perspectives 41:195-212.
3. Amesbury, J 2008. pelagic Fishing in prehistoric Guam, Mariana islands. Pelagic Fisheries Research Program 13:4-8.
4. Butler, VL 1988. Lapita Fishing Strategies: the Faunal Evidence. in pv Kirch and tL hunt (eds), Archaeology of the Lapita Cultural Complex: A Critical Review, pp. 99-115.thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum research report 5, Seattle.
5. Butler, VL 2001. Changing Fish Use on Mangaia, Southern Cook islands: resource Depression and the prey Choice Model. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 11:88-100.
6. Clark, G 2005. A 3000-year Culture Sequence from palau, Western Micronesia. Asian Perspectives 44: 349-380.
7. Clark, G, A Anderson and D Wright 2006. human colonization of the palau islands, Western Micronesia. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 1:215-232.
8. Grayson, DK 1984. Quantitative Zooarchaeology: Topics in the Analysis of Archaeological Faunas. Academic press, New York.
9. Fitzpatrick, SM 2003a. Early human Burials in the Western pacific: Evidence for a c.3000 year old Occupation on palau. Antiquity 77:719-731.
10. Fitzpatrick, SM 2003b. Stones of the Butterfly: An Archaeological investigation of Yapese Stone Money Quarries in palau, Western Caroline islands, Micronesia. Unpublished PhD Dissertation. Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon.
11. Fitzpatrick, SM 2008. Micronesian interregional interaction: Deciphering Multi-Group Contacts and Exchange Systems through time. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 27:131-147.
12. Fitzpatrick, SM and O Kataoka 2005. prehistoric Fishing in palau, Micronesia. Evidence from the Northern rock islands. Archaeology in Oceania 40:1-13.
13. Fitzpatrick, SM and GC Nelson 2008. From Limestone Caves to Concrete Graves: 3000 Years of Mortuary practice in the palauan Archipelago of Western Micronesia. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 18:439-457.
14. Froese, R and D Pauly (eds) 2009. FishBase. fishbase.org
15. Johannes, R 1981. Words of the Lagoon: Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District of Micronesia. University of California press, Los Angeles.
16. Kataoka, O 1995. Ethnoarchaeological Understandings of pacific Faunal remains (1). Journal of Inquiry and Research 62:409-428. Kansai Gaidai University.
17. Kataoka, O 1996. prehistoric and historic Faunal Utilization in pohnpei: An Ecological and Ethnoarchaeological Understanding. Unpublished phD Dissertation. Eugene: University of Oregon.
18. Kirch, PV 1973. prehistoric Subsistence patterns in the Northern Marquesas islands, French polynesia. Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania 8:24-40.
19. Leach, F 1986. A Method for the Analysis of pacific island Fishbone Assemblages and an Associated Management System. Journal of Archaeological Science 13:147-159.
20. Leach FB and AS Boocock 1993. Prehistoric Fish Catches in New Zealand. BAr international Series 584.
21. Leach, F and JM Davidson 2001. The Use of Size-Frequency Diagrams to Characterize prehistoric Fish Catches and to Assess human impact on inshore Fisheries. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 11:150-62.
22. Leach, BF and JM Davidson 2006a. Analysis of Faunal Material from an Archaeological Site Complex at Mangilao, Guam. Wellington: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Technical Report 38.
23. Leach, BF and JM Davidson 2006b. Analysis of Faunal Material from an Archaeological Site at Ylig, Guam. Wellington: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Technical Report 39.
24. Leach, F, M Fleming, J Davidson, G Ward and J Craib 1988. prehistoric Fish at Mochong, rota, Mariana islands. Man and Culture in Oceania 4:31-62.
25. Leach, BF, JM Davidson, M Horwood and P Ottino 1997. The Fishermen of Anapua rock Shelter, Ua pou, Marquesas islands. Asian Perspectives 36:51-66.
26. Liston, J 2005. An Assessment of radiocarbon dates from palau, Western Micronesia. Radiocarbon 47:295-354.
27. Liston, J 2009. Cultural Chronology of Earthworks in palau, Western Micronesia. Archaeology in Oceania 44:56-73.
28. Liston, J and D Tuggle 2006. prehistoric Warfare in palau. in Arkush, E and MW Allen (eds). The Archaeology of Warfare: Prehistories of Raiding and Conquest, pp. 148-183. University press of Florida, Gainesville.
29. Masse, WB 1989. the Archaeology and Ecology of Fishing in the Belau islands, Micronesia. Unpublished phD Dissertation. University of Southern illinois, Carbondale. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms.
30. Morrison, AE and D. Addison 2009. Examining Causes and trends in Marine trophic Level Change: 1500 Years of Fish Exploitation at Fatu-ma-Futi, tutuila island, American Sāmoa. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 4:177-194.
31. Nagaoka, L 1994. Differential recovery of pacific island Fish remains: Evidence from the Moturakau rockshelter, Aitutaki, Cook islands. Asian Perspectives 33:1-17.
32. Nelson, GC and SM Fitzpatrick 2006. preliminary investigations of the Chelechol ra Orrak Cemetery, republic of palau: i, Skeletal Biology and paleopathology. Anthropological Science 113:1-12.
33. Ono, R and M Intoh 2011. island of pelagic Fishermen: temporal Changes in prehistoric Fishing on Fais, Micronesia. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 6(1) (in press).
34. Reitz, EJ and ES Wing. 2008. Zooarchaeology. Cambridge University press: Cambridge.
35. Rick, TC, JM Erlandson and RL Vellanoweth. 2001. paleocoastal Marine Fishing on the pacific Coast of the Americas: perspectives from Daisy Cave, California. American Antiquity 66:595-619.
36. Rolett, B 1989. Hanamiai: Changing Subsistence and Ecology in the prehistory of tahuata, Marquesas islands, French polynesia. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms.
37. Stewart, BD and GP Jones 2001. Associations between the abundance of piscivorous fishes and their prey on coral reefs: implications for prey-fish mortality. Marine Biology 138:383-397.
38. Westneat MW, ME Alfaro, PC Wainwright, Dr Bellwood, Jr Grubich, JL Fessler, KD Clements and LL Smith 2005. Local phylogenetic Divergence and Global Evolutionary Convergence of Skull Function in reef Fishes of the Family Labridae. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 272:993-1000.
39. Wickler, S 2002a. Oral traditions and Archaeology: Modeling village Settlement in palau, Micronesia. Micronesian Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 1:39-47.
40. Wickler, S 2002b. terraces and villages: transformations in the Cultural Landscape in palau. in t Ladefoged and M Graves (eds), pp. 63-96. Pacific Landscapes: Archaeological Approaches. Easter island Foundation, Los Osos.