30,000 Years of Fishing in the Philippines: New Ichthyoarchaeological Investigations in Occidental Mindoro

• Main Authors: Boulanger, Clara, Ingicco, Thomas, Sémah, Anne Marie, Hawkins, Stuart, Ono, Rintaro, Reyes, Marian C., Pawlik, Alfred F
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2023
• Subjects: Coastal adaptation; Fishing; Holocene; Homo sapiens; Ichthyoarchaeology; Island Southeast Asia; Marine environments; Pleistocene; Anthropology; Archaeological Anthropology; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/136; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104222
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Marine adaptations are considered to have been significant factors in the evolution of our species (Homo sapiens). As humans dispersed from Africa around 100 kya, marine resources provided essential nutrients in island environments of the tropical Southeast Asian seas. The Philippine archipelago has...