Fishing during the early human occupations of the Atacama Desert coast : what if we standardize the data?
Rebolledo, Sandra (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Prehistòria)
Béarez, Philippe (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle)
Zurro Hernández, Débora (HUMANE - Archaeology and Human Ecology Research Group. Department of Archaeology and Anthropology. Institució Milà i Fontanals for Research in the Humanities. IMF-CSIC)

Data:	2021
Resum:	The Atacama Desert coast (18-30° S) presents one of the earliest chronologies in the South America region, whose first occupations date from ~ 13,000 cal BP. Since that time, coastal and marine resources have been a common component at sites along the littoral zone. Fish species have been particularly important, as have the fishing technologies developed and used by the coastal communities. However, even though several archaeological sites have been studied, there is no systematic macro-regional analysis of early fisheries along the Atacama Desert coast. Furthermore, differences in theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as research objectives, hinder comparisons between ichthyoarchaeological assemblages. Here, we present a comparative analysis of the Atacama Desert fish data obtained from publications and gray literature from ten archaeological sites dating from the Terminal Pleistocene to the Early Holocene. Through the standardization of contextual and ichthyoarchaeological information, we compared data using NISP, MNI, and weight to calculate fish density, richness, and ubiquity, in order to identify similarities and differences between assemblages. This exploratory approach aims to contribute to studies of fish consumption in the area, as well as proposing new methodological questions and solutions regarding data heterogeneity in archaeozoology.
Nota:	Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
Nota:	This work was funded by the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID)/Beca Doctorado en el Extranjero/DOCTORADO BECAS CHILE/2018-72190047. S.R. received financial support from the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID, Chile), Millennium Nucleus UPWELL [Millennium Science Initiative Program UPWELL- NCN19_153].
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Data standardization ; Atacama Desert coast ; Terminal Pleistocene ; Early Holocene ; Ichthyoarchaeology
Publicat a:	Archaeological and anthropological sciences, Vol. 13 Núm. 9 (september 2021) , p. 152, ISSN 1866-9565

DOI: 10.1007/s12520-021-01387-0

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