A 2500‐year record of marine resource use on Ulong Island, Republic of Palau

Rintaro Ono · Geoffrey Clark

53 citations0/0 files storedInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Maritime and Coastal Archaeology

Abstract

ABSTRACT The paper reports fish bone and shellfish assemblages from Ulong Island in the Rock Islands of Palau, western Micronesia dating from ∼3100 to 500BP. Use of marine resources in early prehistory appears to have been highly localised with increasing capture of outer‐reef/pelagic taxa including shark and tuna after 1000BP. Local stocks of large Tridacnids were depleted during initial human use of Ulong Island, and there is a size decrease inScarussp. remains consistent with pressure on the inshore fishery, especially after establishment of permanent stonework villages in late prehistory. Comparison of archaeological assemblages of fish bone from other Rock Islands dated to after 2000BPindicate that the captured fish species and major capture methods differ between sites and likely reflect local marine environments at each location. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 53 citations exist upstream.

References

1981Words of the Lagoon 2007Climate variability in the mid to late Holocene Arnhem Land Region, North Australia: Archaeological archives of environmental and cultural change 1990Archaeology of the Lapita Cultural Complex: Critical Review.2006Human Colonization of the Palau Islands, Western Micronesia 2009Cultural Chronology of Earthworks in Palau, Western Micronesia 2005Differential recovery of Pacific Island fish remains 1994Fish feeding behaviour and fish capture: the case for variation in Lapita fishing strategies 1993Screen Size and Differential Faunal Recovery: A Hawaiian Example

Cited by

2019Coastal Subsistence Strategies and Mangrove Swamp Evolution at Bubog I Rockshelter (Ilin Island, Mindoro, Philippines) from the Late Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene 2011Island of Pelagic Fishermen: Temporal Changes in Prehistoric Fishing on Fais, Micronesia 2021Tropical islands of the Anthropocene: Deep histories of anthropogenic terrestrial–marine entanglement in the Pacific and Caribbean 2013Distribution and extirpation of pigs in P acific I slands: a case study from P alau

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.