Pre-Hispanic fishing practices in interfluvial Amazonia: Zooarchaeological evidence from managed landscapes on the Llanos de Mojos savanna

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 14; no. 5; p. e0214638
• Main Authors: Prestes-Carneiro, Gabriela, Béarez, Philippe, Shock, Myrtle Pearl, Prümers, Heiko, Jaimes Betancourt, Carla
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 15.05.2019; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Animals; Aquaculture; Archaeology; Archaeology and Prehistory; Biology; Biology and Life Sciences; Bolivia; Bone and Bones - anatomy & histology; Bones; Canals; Canoes & canoeing; Commercial fishing; Conservation; Cultural factors; Drought; Earth Sciences; Ecology; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Editors; Eels; Engineering and Technology; Excess water; Fish; Fisheries; Fisheries - history; Fishes; Fishes - classification; Fishing; Fishing (Recreation); Flooding; Floods; Grasslands; Hispanic people; History; History, Ancient; Hoplias malabaricus; Hoplosternum; Humanities and Social Sciences; Landscape; Lepidosiren paradoxa; Management; Ponds; Rain; River basins; Rivers; Savannahs; Seasons; Social Sciences; Synbranchus; Technology; Tigers; Water; Bolivia; Amazon River region; Brazil; New York; France; United States > US; Germany

Recent evidence suggests the existence of Pre-Hispanic fisheries in savanna areas of the Amazon basin. How these fisheries may have functioned is still poorly known. Although many studies have drawn attention to how Pre-Hispanic inhabitants of these savannas managed to deal with excess water, little...