On Preagricultural Coastal Adaptations

1981 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 444-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Clark ◽  
David R. Yesner
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Adaptations

Coastal Adaptations to the Northern Gulf of Maine and Southern Scotian Shelf

2019 ◽  
pp. 44-80
Author(s):  
MATTHEW W. BETTS ◽  
DAVID W. BLACK ◽  
BRIAN ROBINSON ◽  
ARTHUR SPIESS
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Maine ◽  
Scotian Shelf ◽  
Coastal Adaptations

An evolutionary perspective on coastal adaptations by modern humans during the Middle Stone Age of Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 404 ◽  
pp. 68-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Will ◽  
Andrew W. Kandel ◽  
Katharine Kyriacou ◽  
Nicholas J. Conard
Keyword(s):  
Middle Stone Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Evolutionary Perspective ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Coastal Adaptations

A late pleistocene human presence at Huaca Prieta, Peru, and early Pacific Coastal adaptations

2012 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom D. Dillehay ◽  
Duccio Bonavia ◽  
Steve L. Goodbred ◽  
Mario Pino ◽  
Victor Vásquez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Coastal Environments ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Northern Peru ◽  
Coastal Adaptations ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Early Human

Archaeological excavations in deep pre-mound levels at Huaca Prieta in northern Peru have yielded new evidence of late Pleistocene cultural deposits that shed insights into the early human occupation of the Pacific coast of South America. Radiocarbon dates place this occupation between ~ 14,200 and 13,300 cal yr BP. The cultural evidence shares certain basic technological and subsistence traits, including maritime resources and simple flake tools, with previously discovered late Pleistocene sites along the Pacific coast of Peru and Chile. The results help to expand our knowledge of early maritime societies and human adaption to changing coastal environments.

Shell Middens and Seashores

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonieta Jerardino
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Early Modern Humans ◽  
Coastal Adaptations ◽  
Out Of Africa ◽  
Middle And Late Pleistocene ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

Studies on Middle and Late Pleistocene hominin dietary adaptations have argued that aquatic foods played a key role during this evolutionary process. This chapter presents a summary account on the use and significance of marine resources, particularly shellfish, for early modern humans in southern Africa during oxygen isotope stages (OIS) 6–4. The methods used to identify, quantify, and compare archaeomalacological assemblages in South Africa and beyond, their drawbacks, as well as palaeoenvironmental, taphonomical and foraging considerations necessary to evaluate these data are discussed. The significance of diet broadening in the context of emerging modern humans about 160 ka and their exit out of Africa ~80–60 ka is reflected upon in the light of coastal adaptations by other early hominins groups elsewhere, such as Neanderthals in the Mediterranean Basin. The implications of longer residential permanence and higher population densities generally possible near productive shorelines are also examined.

scholarly journals 67,000 years of coastal engagement at Panga ya Saidi, eastern Africa

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. e0256761
Author(s):  
Patrick Faulkner ◽  
Jennifer M. Miller ◽  
Eréndira M. Quintana Morales ◽  
Alison Crowther ◽  
Ceri Shipton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
Complex Environments ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The Past ◽  
Coastal Resource ◽  
Kenyan Coast ◽  
Long Term Trends ◽  
Coastal Adaptations

The antiquity and nature of coastal resource procurement is central to understanding human evolution and adaptations to complex environments. It has become increasingly apparent in global archaeological studies that the timing, characteristics, and trajectories of coastal resource use are highly variable. Within Africa, discussions of these issues have largely been based on the archaeological record from the south and northeast of the continent, with little evidence from eastern coastal areas leaving significant spatial and temporal gaps in our knowledge. Here, we present data from Panga ya Saidi, a limestone cave complex located 15 km from the modern Kenyan coast, which represents the first long-term sequence of coastal engagement from eastern Africa. Rather than attempting to distinguish between coastal resource use and coastal adaptations, we focus on coastal engagement as a means of characterising human relationships with marine environments and resources from this inland location. We use aquatic mollusc data spanning the past 67,000 years to document shifts in the acquisition, transportation, and discard of these materials, to better understand long-term trends in coastal engagement. Our results show pulses of coastal engagement beginning with low-intensity symbolism, and culminating in the consistent low-level transport of marine and freshwater food resources, emphasising a diverse relationship through time. Panga ya Saidi has the oldest stratified evidence of marine engagement in eastern Africa, and is the only site in Africa which documents coastal resources from the Late Pleistocene through the Holocene, highlighting the potential archaeological importance of peri-coastal sites to debates about marine resource relationships.

Prehistoric Coastal Adaptations

1978 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Adaptations
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