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Study finds ancient clam beaches not so natural
In their second study to be published in just over a year, an SFU led team of scientists has discovered that ancient coastal Indigenous people were more than hunter-gatherers.
Casting a large interdisciplinary research net has helped Simon Fraser University archaeologist Dana Lepofsky and 10 collaborators dig deeper into their findings about ancient clam gardens in the Pacific Northwest and formulate new perspectives.
Lepofsky's research team has discovered that Northwest Coast Indigenous people didn't make their living just by gathering the natural ocean's bounty. Rather, from Alaska to Washington, they were farmers who cultivated productive clam gardens to ensure abundant and sustainable clam harvests.
In its new paper published by American Antiquity, Lepofsky's team isolated novel ways to date the stone terraces that created clam beaches. They are certainly more than 1,000 years old and likely many thousands of years older. The researchers identified many places where people built gardens on bedrock—creating ideal clam habitats where there was none before. This, the researchers concluded, clearly challenges the notation that First Nations were living in wild, untended environments. ...
http://phys.org/news/2015-04-ancient-clam-beaches-natural.html
Study finds ancient clam beaches not so natural
In their second study to be published in just over a year, an SFU led team of scientists has discovered that ancient coastal Indigenous people were more than hunter-gatherers.
Casting a large interdisciplinary research net has helped Simon Fraser University archaeologist Dana Lepofsky and 10 collaborators dig deeper into their findings about ancient clam gardens in the Pacific Northwest and formulate new perspectives.
Lepofsky's research team has discovered that Northwest Coast Indigenous people didn't make their living just by gathering the natural ocean's bounty. Rather, from Alaska to Washington, they were farmers who cultivated productive clam gardens to ensure abundant and sustainable clam harvests.
In its new paper published by American Antiquity, Lepofsky's team isolated novel ways to date the stone terraces that created clam beaches. They are certainly more than 1,000 years old and likely many thousands of years older. The researchers identified many places where people built gardens on bedrock—creating ideal clam habitats where there was none before. This, the researchers concluded, clearly challenges the notation that First Nations were living in wild, untended environments. ...
http://phys.org/news/2015-04-ancient-clam-beaches-natural.html