Rochelle A. Marrinan

What Are We Measuring in the Zooarchaeological Record of Prehispanic Fishing Strategies in the Georgia Bight, USA?

ABSTRACT People promote environmental change through behaviors such as habitat alteration and over-exploitation; they adapt to environmental changes for which they are not responsible; and they implement cultural changes that may be either causes or consequences of local environmental conditions. Thus, communities and populations could be impacted by interactions and feedbacks to stimuli and responses of both anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic origin. Given the complexity of these phenomena, many archaeologists and ecologists focus on one or two variables. Due to growing interest in the long-term historical record offered by archaeological data, it is timely to pose the question: “What are we measuring in the zooarchaeological record of fishing strategies?” Our answer is that we are measuring interrelated social and ecological patterns and processes influencing long-term social and ecological dynamics. We demonstrate the complexity of these measurements with a case study focusing on zooarchaeological data that show a trend for increasing diversity and decreasing mean trophic level in fishes between 2500 BC to AD 1565 in the Georgia Bight (USA). The conceptual framework we follow identifies gaps in our knowledge that limit our ability to distinguish between correlations and causal factors underlying this trend; but the framework itself enables us to clearly identify weaknesses that need to be resolved in order to explain the trends themselves.

Explorations of identity in anthropological and historical context

Milanich, Jerald T. and Charles Hudson. Hernando de Soto and the Indians of Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993. xv + 292 pp. including chapter references and index.

Excavations at Cetamura del Chianti, 1987-1991

34.95 cloth. McDonogh, Gary W., ed. The Florida Negro: A Federal Writers’ Project Legacy. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. xxxv + 177 pp. including afterword, 3 appendices, chapter references, and index.

Survey of Vertebrate Remains from Prehistoric Sites in the Savannah River Valley

30 cloth. Sider, Gerald M. Lumbee Indian Histories: Race, Ethnicity, and Indian Identity in the Southern United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xxvi + 309 pp. including sources and perspectives, chapter references, and index.

A Choice of Diet: Response to Climatic Change

59.95 cloth,

Soil Resistivity Survey of the Hospital Site Andersonville National Historic Site

17.95 paper.

Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida. Jerald T. Milanich. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1994. xxi + 476 pp., illustrations, tables, references index.

Recent excavations by Florida State University at the site of Cetamura in the Chianti region have yielded evidence that the site was in use in the Etruscan Archaic and Hellenistic periods as well as during the earlier Roman Empire and the Middle Ages. This report summarizes in a preliminary form the principal evidence in each zone of the site for habitation during these periods, based on field work done in 198788 and 1990-91. I