The Diversity of Late Holocene Shellfish Exploitation in Velondriake, Southwest Madagascar
The Diversity of Late Holocene Shellfish Exploitation in Velondriake, Southwest Madagascar
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10.1080/15564894.2016.1216480
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2017-01-01
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1.7
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Douglass, Kristina
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作者：
Douglass, Kristina
贝类是人类饮食的一个重要组成部分，特别是对沿海社区来说，贝壳是各种活动和社会互动的组成部分。除了提供关于生存、日常和宗教仪式、贸易和交换等问题的丰富信息外，贝类遗骸还是气候和环境变化的敏感古生态指标。古代社会对贝类的开发利用是考古学中一个很好的研究领域;然而，迄今为止，关于世界第四大岛屿马达加斯加过去或现在对贝类的开发利用的研究很少。本文首次详细描述了来自马达加斯加的考古贝类组合。这些组合是从位于西南部的Velondriake海洋保护区的几个考古遗址的挖掘中恢复的。维龙德里亚克的考古记录跨越了从公元前1000年到公元前1000年的时期。cal AD 600至cal AD 1900，使其成为马达加斯加目前已知的最长占领序列之一。本文的主要目的是提出一系列的贝类分类群确定Velondriake考古组合作为未来工作的基线，并提供初步的意见，在分类多样性，埋藏学和Velondriake的古代社区的依赖不同的海洋栖息地的网站间的变化。
Shellfish represent an important component of human diet, especially for coastal communities, and shells are integral to a wide range of activities and social interactions. In addition to providing rich information on questions of subsistence, daily and ritual practices, and trade and exchange, shellfish remains serve as sensitive paleoecological indicators of changes in climate and environment. The exploitation of shellfish by ancient communities is a well-studied field in archaeology; however, little has been published to date with regard to shellfish exploitationeither in the past or presentin Madagascar, the fourth largest island in the world. This article presents the first detailed description of archaeological shellfish assemblages from Madagascar. These assemblages were recovered from the excavation of several archaeological sites located in the southwest's Velondriake Marine Protected Area. The archaeological record of Velondriake spans the period from ca. cal AD 600 to cal AD 1900, making it one of the longest occupation sequences currently known in Madagascar. The primary objective of this article is to present the range of shellfish taxa identified in Velondriake archaeological assemblages as a baseline for future work and to offer preliminary comments on inter-site variability in taxonomic diversity, taphonomy, and Velondriake's ancient communities' reliance on different marine habitats.