Mass capture fishing in the Marquesas Islands

IF 1.1 3区 历史学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY
Reno Nims, Patricia Pillay, Melinda S. Allen
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Abstract

Mass capture of small fishes with a variety of nets, traps, and weirs was widely practiced and economically important across East Polynesia at western contact. Archaeological research, however, has suggested these technologies were less important during the early settlement period and gained prominence over time. Several explanations have been proposed, including resource depression, changes in marine environments, and/or social and economic reorientations. In the Marquesas Islands, pelagic and offshore fishes were historically well represented in early assemblages relative to most Polynesian islands. Here we report on fishbone assemblages from Nuku Hiva Island that were recovered with fine mesh screens, identified using a wide range of skeletal elements, and analysed with morphometric methods. The Hakaea Beach results demonstrate that mass capture of small fishes was especially important at this locality and sustained over three early, successive occupations. These patterns may reflect the nature of the local fisheries, preferential use of high-return capture strategies in this reef-limited setting, and/or purposeful avoidance of ciguatera-prone fishes and a preference for less vulnerable fishes. Overall, our findings highlight geographic variation in early Marquesan fisheries and provide archaeological evidence that mass capture technologies had an important place in the maritime toolkits of the earliest East Polynesian fishers.

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马克萨斯群岛的大规模捕捞
在与西方接触时,东波利尼西亚广泛使用各种渔网、陷阱和围堰大规模捕捉小型鱼类,在经济上具有重要意义。然而,考古研究表明,这些技术在早期定居时期并不那么重要,随着时间的推移,其重要性逐渐凸显。人们提出了几种解释,包括资源匮乏、海洋环境的变化和/或社会与经济的重新定位。在马克萨斯群岛,与大多数波利尼西亚岛屿相比,浮游鱼类和近海鱼类在早期的鱼骨组合中占有重要地位。在此,我们报告了努库伊瓦岛的鱼骨组合,这些鱼骨是用细网回收的,使用多种骨骼元素进行鉴定,并用形态计量学方法进行分析。哈卡埃阿海滩的研究结果表明,大量捕获小型鱼类在这一地点尤为重要,并在三个早期的连续居住地持续存在。这些模式可能反映了当地渔业的性质,在这种珊瑚礁有限的环境中优先使用高回报的捕获策略,和/或有目的地避开易感染雪卡毒素的鱼类,而偏爱不那么脆弱的鱼类。总之,我们的研究结果突显了早期马克萨斯渔业的地理差异,并提供了考古证据,证明大规模捕捞技术在最早的东波利尼西亚渔民的海上工具包中占有重要地位。
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期刊介绍: Archaeology in Oceania is published online and in print versions three times a year: April, July, October. It accepts articles and research reports in prehistoric and historical archaeology, modern material culture and human biology of ancient and modern human populations. Its primary geographic focus is Australia, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and lands of the western Pacific rim. All articles and research reports accepted as being within the remit of the journal and of appropriate standard will be reviewed by two scholars; authors will be informed of these comments though not necessarily of the reviewer’s names.
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