Molluscs in a world of islands:
the use of shellfish as a food resource in the tropical island Asia-Pacific region
Katherine Szabó & Judith R Amesbury 2011 Quat.Internat.239:8-18

The vast Asia-Pacific region (from the islands of Indonesia & Borneo in the W, through Melanesia, Micronesia & W.Polynesia in the E) is a panorama of water & islands.
Encompassing the "coral triangle", this region is the most speciose of the global marine bio-geographic provinces, with a mosaic of high-biomass habitats:
-mangrove swamps & coral reefs,
-rocky shores, seagrass meadows & beaches.
The importance of molluscs across this region (a consistent source of food & providing raw materials for artefacts) can hardly be over-estimated.
The western parts of this region have Pleistocene human occupation records: some zones of Indonesia yield non-sapiens hominin remains: H.erectus & H.floresiensis.
For most of the tropical Pacific Islands, the archaeological record commences at c 3.5 - 1 ka BP.
Rather than conducting an exhaustive survey of knowledge of the human use of molluscs over this vast span of space & time, the focus here is on central issues re. the use of molluscan resources for food.
4 major issues are discussed:
1) the evidence for shellfish collection by non-sapiens hominins,
2) the character of early H.sapiens shellfish-gathering vs discussions of coastal adaptations,
3) what was the effect on shell-gathering practices, as seas rose in the Holocene?
4) where do shellfish fit into the notions of early subsistence in Oceanic Micronesia & Melanesia-W.Polynesia?
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IOW, only incredible imbeciles believe their ancestors ran after antelopes.

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On Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 10:27:04 AM UTC-4, littor...@gmail.com wrote:

Molluscs in a world of islands:
the use of shellfish as a food resource in the tropical island Asia-Pacific region
Katherine Szabó & Judith R Amesbury 2011 Quat.Internat.239:8-18

The vast Asia-Pacific region (from the islands of Indonesia & Borneo in the W, through Melanesia, Micronesia & W.Polynesia in the E) is a panorama of water & islands.
Encompassing the "coral triangle", this region is the most speciose of the global marine bio-geographic provinces, with a mosaic of high-biomass habitats:
-mangrove swamps & coral reefs,
-rocky shores, seagrass meadows & beaches.
The importance of molluscs across this region (a consistent source of food & providing raw materials for artefacts) can hardly be over-estimated.
The western parts of this region have Pleistocene human occupation records: some zones of Indonesia yield non-sapiens hominin remains: H.erectus & H.floresiensis.
For most of the tropical Pacific Islands, the archaeological record commences at c 3.5 - 1 ka BP.
Rather than conducting an exhaustive survey of knowledge of the human use of molluscs over this vast span of space & time, the focus here is on central issues re. the use of molluscan resources for food.
4 major issues are discussed:
1) the evidence for shellfish collection by non-sapiens hominins,
2) the character of early H.sapiens shellfish-gathering vs discussions of coastal adaptations,
3) what was the effect on shell-gathering practices, as seas rose in the Holocene?
4) where do shellfish fit into the notions of early subsistence in Oceanic Micronesia & Melanesia-W.Polynesia?
______

IOW, only incredible imbeciles believe their ancestors ran after antelopes.

Clams in Indonesia? Imagine that! Lots of antelope there too.

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Op zondag 30 oktober 2022 om 17:35:24 UTC+1 schreef DD'eDeN aka note/nickname/alas_my_loves:

Molluscs in a world of islands:
the use of shellfish as a food resource in the tropical island Asia-Pacific region
Katherine Szabó & Judith R Amesbury 2011 Quat.Internat.239:8-18
The vast Asia-Pacific region (from the islands of Indonesia & Borneo in the W, through Melanesia, Micronesia & W.Polynesia in the E) is a panorama of water & islands.
Encompassing the "coral triangle", this region is the most speciose of the global marine bio-geographic provinces, with a mosaic of high-biomass habitats:
-mangrove swamps & coral reefs,
-rocky shores, seagrass meadows & beaches.
The importance of molluscs across this region (a consistent source of food & providing raw materials for artefacts) can hardly be over-estimated.
The western parts of this region have Pleistocene human occupation records:
some zones of Indonesia yield non-sapiens hominin remains: H.erectus & H.floresiensis.
For most of the tropical Pacific Islands, the archaeological record commences at c 3.5 - 1 ka BP.
Rather than conducting an exhaustive survey of knowledge of the human use of molluscs over this vast span of space & time, the focus here is on central issues re. the use of molluscan resources for food.
4 major issues are discussed:
1) the evidence for shellfish collection by non-sapiens hominins,
2) the character of early H.sapiens shellfish-gathering vs discussions of coastal adaptations,
3) what was the effect on shell-gathering practices, as seas rose in the Holocene?
4) where do shellfish fit into the notions of early subsistence in Oceanic Micronesia & Melanesia-W.Polynesia?

______

IOW, only incredible imbeciles believe their ancestors ran after antelopes.

Clams in Indonesia? Imagine that! Lots of antelope there too.

Yes, yes, my little boy, but you're only an incredible imbecile if you believe that pachyosteosclerotic H.erectus could have run after them.
:-DDD

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DD'eDeN aka note/nickname/alas_my_loves wrote:

Clams in Indonesia?

Lol! Why not?

Today most types of clams are farmed, but we're not talking about today.

Why must you CONSTANTLY be reminded of this fact?

Imagine that!

Of course there's absolutely nothing in the savanna model that gets humans
to Indonesia in the first place. Or anywhere else outside that savanna for
that matter. If they weren't adapting to the waterline, if they weren't sustaining
themselves on seafood then they really had no way of spreading...

Lots of antelope there too.

How many? Did you do the counting of were you the one making notes while someone else counted?

Did you give them names?





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On Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 10:27:04 AM UTC-4, littor...@gmail.com wrote:

Molluscs in a world of islands:
the use of shellfish as a food resource in the tropical island Asia-Pacific region
Katherine Szabó & Judith R Amesbury 2011 Quat.Internat.239:8-18

The vast Asia-Pacific region (from the islands of Indonesia & Borneo in the W, through Melanesia, Micronesia & W.Polynesia in the E) is a panorama of water & islands.
Encompassing the "coral triangle", this region is the most speciose of the global marine bio-geographic provinces, with a mosaic of high-biomass habitats:
-mangrove swamps & coral reefs,
-rocky shores, seagrass meadows & beaches.
The importance of molluscs across this region (a consistent source of food & providing raw materials for artefacts) can hardly be over-estimated.
The western parts of this region have Pleistocene human occupation records: some zones of Indonesia yield non-sapiens hominin remains: H.erectus & H.floresiensis.
For most of the tropical Pacific Islands, the archaeological record commences at c 3.5 - 1 ka BP.
Rather than conducting an exhaustive survey of knowledge of the human use of molluscs over this vast span of space & time, the focus here is on central issues re. the use of molluscan resources for food.
4 major issues are discussed:
1) the evidence for shellfish collection by non-sapiens hominins,
2) the character of early H.sapiens shellfish-gathering vs discussions of coastal adaptations,
3) what was the effect on shell-gathering practices, as seas rose in the Holocene?
4) where do shellfish fit into the notions of early subsistence in Oceanic Micronesia & Melanesia-W.Polynesia?
______

IOW, only incredible imbeciles believe their ancestors ran after antelopes.

Local environments:
When He first arrived in S-Sunda-land, the Sangiran area was a low-relief lake-margin & marsh landscape.
Streams draining nearby volcanic highlands provided intermittent floods of silty & clayey sediment,
occasional volcanic eruptions deposited blankets of ash.
Freshwater marshes & marsh-edge environments supported sedges, ferns, water-tolerant grasses & trees + a variety of aquatic & semi-aquatic vertebrate (Hexaprotodon, various cervids, crocodiles, turtles, fish) & invertebrate spp. ...

Kudu Savannastan!

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