Conference proceeding
Coastal Resource Management in a Clam Shell
Circum-Pacific Prehistory Conference: Bringing a Million Years of Human History to Washington State
Circum-Pacific Prehistory Conference (Seattle, Washington, 08/01/1989 - 08/06/1989)
1989
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000006241
Abstract
Three factors appear particularly influential in the onset of intensified coastal resource management on the central Northwest Coast of North America: (1) exponential population increases, (2) terrestrial circumscription, and (3) critical pressures on resources (overexploitation). Apparently one of the resources most sensitive to overuse is shellfish. This overuse, in conjunction with the other two factors, may have initiated an increasing emphasis on overall resource management. The critical point for all three factors in the Northwest may have been reached by 4,000 BP. This hypothesis has been tested at the well preserved site complex at the mouth of the Hoko River. Current results reflect continual pressure on California mussel populations, with a noteworthy period of extreme pressure. Similar patters can be shown in the development of other Pacific maritime cultures, often contributing to the onset of more intensified coastal resource management and/or an expansion into food production.
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- Title
- Coastal Resource Management in a Clam Shell
- Creators
- Dale R. Croes (Author) - Washington State University, Anthropology, Department ofSteven Hackenberger (Author)
- Publication Details
- Circum-Pacific Prehistory Conference: Bringing a Million Years of Human History to Washington State
- Conference
- Circum-Pacific Prehistory Conference (Seattle, Washington, 08/01/1989 - 08/06/1989)
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Identifiers
- 99901087340901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding