Feeding prehistoric coastal community:A study of marine faunal remains at the Jingtoushan site

作     者：Endong WU Guoping SUN Ying ZHANG 

作者机构：School of CultureHistory and LanguageAustralian National UniversityCanberra 2600Australia Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and ArchaeologyHangzhou 310012China National Centre for ArchaeologyBeijing 100013China 

出 版 物：《Science China Earth Sciences》 (中国科学（地球科学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2024年第67卷第5期

页      面：1574-1590页

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学科分类：070903[理学-古生物学与地层学(含：古人类学)] 0709[理学-地质学] 07[理学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 

基　　金：the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology for supporting this study supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.T2192950) 

主　　题：Neolithic Age Marine faunal remains Fishing economy Palaeoenvironment Community development 

摘      要：This article examines the abundant marine mollusc,and fish remains at the Jingtoushan shell midden(8,300 to7,800 cal a BP)in Zhejiang Province,China,to investigate the fishing economy,community development,the palaeoenvironment,and their interactions among the prehistoric populations in the lower Yangtze River Basin and southeastern coastal *** also attempts to explore the prosperity and decline of coastal settlements in China during the Neolithic Age and the potential reasons for their rise and fall,*** on the ecological and biological principles of marine animals,standard zooarchaeological methods and radiocarbon dating analysis are used for sampling,identification,measurement,and *** show that at least 11 mollusc taxa and 14 fish taxa can be identified from the Jingtoushan faunal *** ancient Jingtoushan residents possibly lived in a settlement close to the coast and engaged in inshore and offshore fishing,hunting,and gathering as their primary subsistence strategies,with low-level rice cultivation as a supplementary means of ***,the changes in the coastal environment could be one of the reasons why the Jingtoushan residents abandoned their *** research contributes to Chinese Neolithic archaeology with new evidence of the exploitation of marine resources around 8000 a BP in the eastern coastal areas and the relationship between Neolithic community development and environmental changes.