Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-qs9v7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-12T19:33:01.025Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A Reconsideration of Aboriginal Fishing Strategies in the Northern Great Lakes Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Susan Rapalje Martin
Susan Rapalje Martin*
Affiliation:
Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Aboriginal northern Great Lakes fishing strategies varied with season, target species, and organization of the labor force. The placement of Woodland archaeological sites complied with the structure of these fisheries, but their locations do not reflect prey specificity or one specialized technology. Rather, resource-general locations suggest an essential step in the process of specialization. Flexibility in settlement and social styles existed among prehistoric foragers of the midlatitudes, as did a variety of solutions to food-getting problems. Slow, accretional processes rather than temporally discrete growth processes were responsible for Late Woodland site characteristics in this region. Stable locational-selection patterns are visible through reexamination of the historical data base and through statistical analyses of environmental factors associated with sites at a number of Woodland localities.

Résumé

Résumé

Las estrategias indígenas de pesca en la región de los Grandes Lagos norteños varíaban según la estación, la especie preferida, y la organizatión de los obreros. La ubicación de los sitios arqueológicos Woodland se conforma con la estructura de estas pesquerías, pero sus localidades no dependen de una pesca especifica ni de una tecnología especializada única. En lugar de esto, las localidades indican un avance esencial en elproceso de especialización. Una flexibilidad en la colonizatión y en los estilos sociales existaba entre los forrajeros prehistóricos de las latitudes medias, así como existaban una variedad de soluciónes de los problemas de buscar comestibles. Unos procesos aumentandose despacio y de una manera continua eran responsables para las características de los sitios Late Woodland en esta región y no procesos temporales aumentandose por etapas. Unos patrones para la seleción de las localidades se presentan cuando se examinan los datos históricos y cuando se hace una análisis estadística de losfactores del medio ambiente que se asocian con los sitios en varias localidades Woodland.

Type
Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , July 1989 , pp. 594 - 604
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1989

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

References Cited

Blair, E. H. (editor) 1911-1922 The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and Regions of the Great Lakes. 2 vols. Arthur H. Clark, New York.Google Scholar
Cleland, C. E. 1982 The Inland Shore Fishery of the Northern Great Lakes: Its Development and Importance in Prehistory. American Antiquity 47: 761–784.Google Scholar
Franzen, J. 1983 1982 Cultural Resource Survey and Test Excavation, Hiawatha National Forest. 2 vols. Cultural Resource Management Report No. 2. Hiawatha National Forest, Supervisor's Office, Escanaba, Michigan.Google Scholar
Henry, A. 1969 Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories Between the Years 1760 and 1776. Charles Turtle, Rutland, Vermont.Google Scholar
Hickerson, H. 1970 The Chippewa and Their Neighbors: A Study in Ethnohistory. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York.Google Scholar
Jochim, M. A. 1981 Strategies for Survival: Cultural Behavior in an Ecological Context. Academic Press, New York.Google Scholar
Kellogg, L. B. (editor) 1945 Early Narratives of the Northwest, 1634-1699. Barnes and Noble, New York.Google Scholar
Martin, S. 1985 Models of Change in the Woodland Settlement of the Northern Great Lakes Region. Ph. D. dissertation, Michigan State University. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor.Google Scholar
Peterson, J. B., Hamilton, N. D., Adovasio, J. M., and Pherron, A. L. Mac 1984 Netting Technology and the Antiquity of Fish Exploitation in Eastern North America. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 9: 199–225.Google Scholar
Schiffer, M. B. 1983 Toward the Identification of Formation Processes. American Antiquity 48: 675–706.Google Scholar
Schoolcraft, H. R. 1970 Narrative Journals of Travels from Detroit Northwest through the Great Chain of American Lakes to Sources of the Mississippi River in the Year 1820. Arno and the New York Times, New York.Google Scholar