Changing role of nearshore-marine foods in the subsistence economy of inland upland communities during the last millennium in the tropical Pacific Islands: Insights from the Ba River Valley, Northern Viti Levu Island, Fiji

K F Robb; Patrick Nunn

doi:10.1179/1749631413Y.0000000012

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Changing role of nearshore-marine foods in the subsistence economy of inland upland communities during the last millennium in the tropical Pacific Islands: Insights from the Ba River Valley, Northern Viti Levu Island, Fiji

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Changing role of nearshore-marine foods in the subsistence economy of inland upland communities during the last millennium in the tropical Pacific Islands: Insights from the Ba River Valley, Northern Viti Levu Island, Fiji

K F Robb and Patrick Nunn

Environmental Archaeology, Vol.19(1), pp.1-11

2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/1749631413Y.0000000012

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Abstract

Ba Valley

Fiji

last millennium

settlement

shellfish

subsistence

Although the Fiji Islands have been settled for more than 3000 years, the prehistoric settlement history of the 750-km2 Ba River Valley in northern Viti Levu Island is largely unknown. Investigations of two former upland settlement sites (Tubabaka and Vatusososo) in defensive locations, more than 10 km from the coast, and occupied perhaps AD 1250-1850, are reported here. At both sites, shellfish remains are abundant and dominated by nearshore-marine species that would have required round-trip journeys of at least 11• 5-13 hours to obtain. Patterns of marine-shellfish consumption varied through time in a similar manner at both sites, increasing during their early occupation and declining later. This is likely to demonstrate the gradual adaptation of former coastal dwellers living at these sites to inland subsistence. © Association for Environmental Archaeology 2014.

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Title: Changing role of nearshore-marine foods in the subsistence economy of inland upland communities during the last millennium in the tropical Pacific Islands: Insights from the Ba River Valley, Northern Viti Levu Island, Fiji
Authors: K F Robb (Author) - University of New England
Patrick Nunn (Author) - University of New England
Publication details: Environmental Archaeology, Vol.19(1), pp.1-11
Publisher: Maney Publishing
Date published: 2014
DOI: 10.1179/1749631413Y.0000000012
ISSN: 1461-4103
Copyright note: Copyright © 2014 Maney Publishing. The author accepted version is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The definitive version is available at http://maneypublishing.com/
Organisation Unit: Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99448760202621
Output Type: Journal article

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