Prehistoric Fisheries in Southern California: Zooarchaeological Research Collections and Regional Analysis

在国家科学基金会的支持下，加州大学洛杉矶分校动物考古学实验室将获得一个比较鱼类的收藏。该实验室目前鉴定在考古遗址挖掘过程中发现的动物遗骸，其中许多位于加州。为了有效地进行这项工作，有必要从已知物种的骨骼进行比较，目前的实验室收集是最低限度的足够。虽然加州沃茨已知有700多种鱼类，但只有150-200种出现在考古遗址中，阿诺德博士和她的合作者将重点关注这些物种。他们计划在现有的标本库中增加大约300个标本。因为有些物种在许多情况下表现出两性异形，所以需要不止一个标本。将从许多来源收集材料，包括商业渔民、鱼市以及电力和水泵设施（当它们冲洗冷却输送系统时，会回收大量的鱼）。将对标本进行浸软处理，并对清洁脱脂的骨骼元素进行编号，并将其纳入标本集。 在加州沿海的一些地区，如海峡群岛和邻近的大陆，史前美洲土著文化达到了一个狩猎和采集社会极不寻常的sedentiation和文化复杂性的水平。他们生产的财富物品被广泛交易，这些物品可能是由工艺专家制造的。在这一过程中，对鱼类的依赖发挥了重要作用，鱼类提供了丰富而相对稳定的饮食。广泛的海洋研究已经允许重建后更新世水温和相关生产力的变化，考古学家希望研究文化对这些变化条件的反应。通过考古发掘发现的动物群材料为解决这些问题提供了重要的数据基础，所收集的比较资料将大大有助于这项工作。 - - v- +- ±@ + _ 你好，我的天啊 Ý + Õ $ H L + ¢ ╗ S um m m ary in for m m a t i o n ( ++++++++++++ . Û ++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ D H + R:\WWUSER\TEMPLATE\NORMAL.DOT

With National Science Foundation support the UCLA Zooarchaeology Laboratory will acquire a comparative fish collection. The laboratory currently identifies faunal remains recovered during the excavation of archaeological sites, many of which are located in California. To conduct this work effectively it is necessary to have skeletons from known species for comparative purposes and the present laboratory collection is minimally adequate. While more than 700 species of fish are known present in California waters only 150-200 appear in archaeological sites and Dr. Arnold and her collaborators will focus on these species. They plan to add roughly 300 specimens to their current holdings. Because some species exhibit sexual dimorphism in many cases more than one specimen is necessary. Materials will be collected from a number of sources including commercial fisherman, fish markets and power and pumping facilities (which recover large numbers of fish when they flush out their cooling delivery systems). The specimens will be macerated, and the clean de-greased skeletal elements will be numbered and incorporated into the collection. In some areas of coastal California such as the Channel Islands and adjacent mainland prehistoric Native American cultures reached a level of sedentization and cultural complexity highly unusual for hunting and gathering societies. They produced wealth items which were widely traded and which probably were made by craft specialists. Reliance on fish which offered a rich a relatively stable diet played an important role in this process. Extensive marine research has allowed reconstruction of changes in post Pleistocene water temperature and related productivity and archaeologists wish to examine cultural response to these changing conditions. Faunal materials recovered through archaeological excavation provide an important data base for addressing such issues and the comparative collection to be amassed will significantly assist in this work. - À- v- +- ±@ + _ Ûª▓ ÑOh ª' +'ª▒0 Ý + Õ $ H l + ¢ ╗ S u m m a r y I n f o r m a t i o n ( ++++++++++++ . Û ++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ D h + R:\WWUSER\TEMPLATE\NORMAL.DOT