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SUBMITTER: Blatrix R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5902550 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Blatrix Rumsaïs R Roux Bruno B Béarez Philippe P Prestes-Carneiro Gabriela G Amaya Marcelo M Aramayo Jose Luis JL Rodrigues Leonor L Lombardo Umberto U Iriarte Jose J de Souza Jonas Gregorio JG Robinson Mark M Bernard Cyril C Pouilly Marc M Durécu Mélisse M Huchzermeyer Carl F CF Kalebe Mashuta M Ovando Alex A McKey Doyle D
Scientific reports 20180416 1
Archaeology provides few examples of large-scale fisheries at the frontier between catching and farming of fish. We analysed the spatial organization of earthen embankments to infer the functioning of a landscape-level pre-Columbian Amazonian fishery that was based on capture of out-migrating fish after reproduction in seasonal floodplains. Long earthen weirs cross floodplains. We showed that weirs bear successive V-shaped features (termed 'Vs' for the sake of brevity) pointing downstream for ou ...[more]