Archaeology of Herring – now in PNAS

Iain McKechnie and Madonna Moss

McKechnie & Moss looking at Cl pa 9 (Clupea pallasi #9) in comparative collection

We are excited to announce that our Northwest Coast-wide study of herring has just appeared in PNAS:

McKechnie, I., D. Lepofsky, M.L. Moss, V.L. Butler, T.J. Orchard, G. Coupland, F. Foster, M. Caldwell, and K. Lertzman (2014) Archaeological Data Provide Alternative Hypotheses on Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasii) Distribution, Abundance, and Variability. PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)  doi: 10.1073/pnas.1316072111. Online February 18, 2014.

You can find the paper at <http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/02/13/1316072111>

See also: <http://uonews.uoregon.edu/archive/news-release/2014/2/oregon-researchers-say-ancient-herring-catch-nets-fisheries-weakness>

 

 

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