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Ancient ecodisasters
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Ancient ecodisasters
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World Archaeology
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33 (3)
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Journal
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Peter A Rowley-Conwy
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Peter A Rowley-Conwy
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Routledge Journals
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2002
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11 Mar 2004
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Ancient ecodisasters
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Special issue on the evidence for environmental disasters in the archaeological record of a range of places and times, including
Depletion of a resource?; The impact of prehistoric human foraging on intert...
Marcello A Mannino
Kenneth D Thomas
452 - 474
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