Insights into changing coastlines, environments and marine hunter-gatherer lifestyles on the Pacific coast of South America from the La Yerba II shell midden, Río Ica estuary, Peru
Shell middens are conspicuous manifestations of the exploitation of rich, sustainable, easily seen and harvested marine resources that, worldwide, enabled hunter-gatherers to reduce mobility and increase population and social complexity. Globally, known sites tend to cluster chronologically around 6...
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| author | Beresford Jones, David Friesem, David E. Fraser, Sturt Pullen, Alexander Chauca, George Moat, Justin Gorriti, Manuel Maita, Patricia K. Joly, Delphine Huaman Oros, Oliver Lane, Kevin John French, Charles |
| author_facet | Beresford Jones, David Friesem, David E. Fraser, Sturt Pullen, Alexander Chauca, George Moat, Justin Gorriti, Manuel Maita, Patricia K. Joly, Delphine Huaman Oros, Oliver Lane, Kevin John French, Charles |
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| description | Shell middens are conspicuous manifestations of the exploitation of rich, sustainable, easily seen and harvested marine resources that, worldwide, enabled hunter-gatherers to reduce mobility and increase population and social complexity. Globally, known sites tend to cluster chronologically around 6 k BP, after slowing eustatic sea-level rise, although the Pacific coast of South America offers some rare earlier exceptions. We report investigations of La Yerba II, a Middle Preceramic shell matrix site on the Río Ica estuary, south coast Peru. These show how, beginning around 7000 Cal BP, over 4.5 m of stratigraphy accumulated in less than 500 years. Consisting of prepared surfaces, indurated floors and the ashy interiors of wind shelters and their associated midden deposits, alternating with phases of abandonment, this was the outcome of an intense rhythm of repeated occupations by logistically mobile marine huntergatherers. Final phases, dominated by Mesodesma surf clams, mark change towards more task-specific activities. La Yerba II's topographic position and well-preserved cultural and environmental markers provide insight into the local history of relative sea level change and changing marine hunter-gatherer lifestyles during a period critical to the transition to sedentism and the formation of new estuarine and beach habitats following the stabilisation of eustatic sea-levels. |
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| spelling | suquia-ffyh.1749232024-08-02T01:21:38Z Insights into changing coastlines, environments and marine hunter-gatherer lifestyles on the Pacific coast of South America from the La Yerba II shell midden, Río Ica estuary, Peru Beresford Jones, David Friesem, David E. Fraser, Sturt Pullen, Alexander Chauca, George Moat, Justin Gorriti, Manuel Maita, Patricia K. Joly, Delphine Huaman Oros, Oliver Lane, Kevin John French, Charles FLOOR SURFACES GEOARCHAEOLOGY HOLOCENE MARINE HUNTER-GATHERERS MIDDLE PRECERAMIC PACIFIC COAST SOUTH AMERICA RELATIVE SEA LEVEL SHELL MIDDEN ARCHAEOLOGY https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6 Shell middens are conspicuous manifestations of the exploitation of rich, sustainable, easily seen and harvested marine resources that, worldwide, enabled hunter-gatherers to reduce mobility and increase population and social complexity. Globally, known sites tend to cluster chronologically around 6 k BP, after slowing eustatic sea-level rise, although the Pacific coast of South America offers some rare earlier exceptions. We report investigations of La Yerba II, a Middle Preceramic shell matrix site on the Río Ica estuary, south coast Peru. These show how, beginning around 7000 Cal BP, over 4.5 m of stratigraphy accumulated in less than 500 years. Consisting of prepared surfaces, indurated floors and the ashy interiors of wind shelters and their associated midden deposits, alternating with phases of abandonment, this was the outcome of an intense rhythm of repeated occupations by logistically mobile marine huntergatherers. Final phases, dominated by Mesodesma surf clams, mark change towards more task-specific activities. La Yerba II's topographic position and well-preserved cultural and environmental markers provide insight into the local history of relative sea level change and changing marine hunter-gatherer lifestyles during a period critical to the transition to sedentism and the formation of new estuarine and beach habitats following the stabilisation of eustatic sea-levels. Fil: Beresford Jones, David. University of Cambridge; Estados Unidos. Universitat Bonn; Alemania Fil: Friesem, David E.. University of Haifa; Israel Fil: Fraser, Sturt. University of Southampton; Reino Unido Fil: Pullen, Alexander. Pre-construct Archaeology; Reino Unido Fil: Chauca, George. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Perú Fil: Moat, Justin. Royal Botanic Gardens; Reino Unido Fil: Gorriti, Manuel. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Perú Fil: Maita, Patricia K.. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Perú Fil: Joly, Delphine. Royal Botanic Gardens; Reino Unido Fil: Huaman Oros, Oliver. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Perú Fil: Lane, Kevin John. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de las Culturas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de las Culturas; Argentina Fil: French, Charles. University of Cambridge; Reino Unido 2022-04 2024-08-02T01:21:38Z 2024-08-02T01:21:38Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/11336/161221 Beresford Jones, David; Friesem, David E.; Fraser, Sturt; Pullen, Alexander; Chauca, George; et al.; Insights into changing coastlines, environments and marine hunter-gatherer lifestyles on the Pacific coast of South America from the La Yerba II shell midden, Río Ica estuary, Peru; Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd; Quaternary Science Reviews; 285; 107509; 4-2022; 1-25 0277-3791 CONICET Digital CONICET https://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/suquia/174923 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107509 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379122001408?via%3Dihub info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022QSRv..28507509B/abstract info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ar/ application/pdf application/pdf Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd |
| spellingShingle | FLOOR SURFACES GEOARCHAEOLOGY HOLOCENE MARINE HUNTER-GATHERERS MIDDLE PRECERAMIC PACIFIC COAST SOUTH AMERICA RELATIVE SEA LEVEL SHELL MIDDEN ARCHAEOLOGY https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6 Beresford Jones, David Friesem, David E. Fraser, Sturt Pullen, Alexander Chauca, George Moat, Justin Gorriti, Manuel Maita, Patricia K. Joly, Delphine Huaman Oros, Oliver Lane, Kevin John French, Charles Insights into changing coastlines, environments and marine hunter-gatherer lifestyles on the Pacific coast of South America from the La Yerba II shell midden, Río Ica estuary, Peru |
| title | Insights into changing coastlines, environments and marine hunter-gatherer lifestyles on the Pacific coast of South America from the La Yerba II shell midden, Río Ica estuary, Peru |
| title_full | Insights into changing coastlines, environments and marine hunter-gatherer lifestyles on the Pacific coast of South America from the La Yerba II shell midden, Río Ica estuary, Peru |
| title_fullStr | Insights into changing coastlines, environments and marine hunter-gatherer lifestyles on the Pacific coast of South America from the La Yerba II shell midden, Río Ica estuary, Peru |
| title_full_unstemmed | Insights into changing coastlines, environments and marine hunter-gatherer lifestyles on the Pacific coast of South America from the La Yerba II shell midden, Río Ica estuary, Peru |
| title_short | Insights into changing coastlines, environments and marine hunter-gatherer lifestyles on the Pacific coast of South America from the La Yerba II shell midden, Río Ica estuary, Peru |
| title_sort | insights into changing coastlines environments and marine hunter gatherer lifestyles on the pacific coast of south america from the la yerba ii shell midden rio ica estuary peru |
| topic | FLOOR SURFACES GEOARCHAEOLOGY HOLOCENE MARINE HUNTER-GATHERERS MIDDLE PRECERAMIC PACIFIC COAST SOUTH AMERICA RELATIVE SEA LEVEL SHELL MIDDEN ARCHAEOLOGY https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/161221 https://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/suquia/174923 |
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