Mannino, M. A. and Thomas, K. D. (2002). Depletion of a resource?. Ancient ecodisasters. Vol 33(3), pp. 452-474.
 Title The title of the publication or report |
Depletion of a resource? | |||
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Subtitle The sub title of the publication or report |
The impact of prehistoric human foraging on intertidal mollusc communities and its significance for human settlement, mobility and dispersal | |||
Issue The name of the volume or issue |
Ancient ecodisasters | |||
Series The series the publication or report is included in |
World Archaeology | |||
Volume Volume number and part |
33 (3) | |||
Page Start/End The start and end page numbers. |
452 - 474 | |||
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Abstract The abstract describing the content of the publication or report |
the authors argue that ethnoecological studies have demonstrated the impacts that even relatively small-scale human foraging has on targeted species of shellfish and the structure of biological communities in intertidal zones. They state that there is compelling archaeological evidence that people in various parts of the world often had a depleting effect on shellfish populations, and that although shellfish and other marine resources have sometimes been perceived as lowly ranked foods and coastal archaeological sites have often been interpreted as temporary (possibly seasonal) sites for the exploitation of these 'inferior' food resources, this model has been challenged by studies of mid-Holocene Mesolithic hunter-gatherer sites in Atlantic Europe, which have shown that marine foods were the main component of the total diet and that human foraging can deplete shellfish resources. Although subsistence systems based on coastal resources might have been both viable and acceptable in dietary terms, regular mobility would have been necessary for them to be sustainable. On longer time scales, such coastal mobility might result in population dispersal. Sites associated with early anatomically modern humans show the antiquity of coastal adaptations, including the consumption of shellfish, and the dispersal of early modern humans out of Africa into southeast Asia and 'Greater Australia' could have been through coastal environments. The authors argue that this coastal dispersal could have been driven, at least in part, by the impact of early human foragers on intertidal food resources, resource depletion in coastal zones having probably been among the first significant, but small-scale, 'ecological impacts' of human beings | |||
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published |
2002 | |||
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17 Nov 2005 |
