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Temporal Variation in Polynesian Fishing Strategies: The Southern Cook Islands in Regional Perspective

Year: 1992

Type: article

Abstract: FISH AND FISHING have been an integral thread in the weft of Polynesian life over the last 3500 years. Although animal domesticates were important in social and ritual contexts, fish has been the protein mainstay throughout much of the region's prehis-tory. Historically Polynesian archaeologists have been more interested in fishing tools than fishing strategies and subsistence per se. Stylistic features of fishhooks, for example, have been key chronological markers, particularly in East Polynesia where they are abundant elements of the artifact assemblages (e; g., Davidson 1968; Emory

Source: ScholarSpace (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Author: Melinda S. Allen

Language: English

Topic: Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Life below water

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, University of Washington

Awards: Extinction and Biogeography of Insular Vertebrates, Dissertation Research: The Role of the Southern Cooks in East Polynesian Colonization and Differentiation

OpenAlex ID: W2171336130

FWCI: 10.85

Cites: 35

Cited by: 52

Related to: 10