TRADITION Project | Brazilian Zooarch Database (ZooarchBR) - Fish
TRADITION: Long-term coastal adaptation, food security and poverty alleviation in Latin America
Description
Faunal information was obtained from research articles, academic dissertations and theses, and book chapters available as physical and electronic copies in institutional repositories (universities, museums, public libraries) and publishers’ websites. Whenever possible, taxonomic information was recorded to the species level, but for most sites only genus, and often classes, orders, and/or families were available. The nomenclature and ecological attributions follow the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes.
Coastal and ocean ecosystems have fuelled the subsistence of people for thousands of years along the Brazilian coasts. As a result, hundreds of archaeological sites preserve information on past biological diversity of potential interest for management and conservation debates. Here, we present the occurrence of bony and cartilaginous fish, the most commonly occurring and abundant faunal remains in the archaeological sites under examination. Other organisms such as molluscs, echinoderms, crustaceans, reptiles, birds and mammals will be available in other resources (separate lists) in the platform.
Geographic Description
The Brazilian Zooarch Database (ZooarchBR) is the first collaborative and open access zooarchaeological database in Brazil, where the user can not only view the available data, but also contribute by entering new/additional information to expand the faunal data recorded in Brazilian archaeological sites.
Data quality
Reports were categorised according to qualitative and quantitative criteria proposed by Fossile et al. 2020: Source A (qualitative-quantitative) - presented detailed taxonomic identifications, and absolute and relative abundance for all taxa (Number of Identified Specimens (NISP) and/or Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI)); Source B (semi-quantitative) - presented detailed taxonomic identifications, and absolute and relative abundance for selected taxa; Source C (qualitative) - presented taxonomic identification with no quantitative information.
Methods
Faunal information was obtained from research articles, academic dissertations and theses, and book chapters available as physical and electronic copies in institutional repositories (universities, museums, public libraries) and publishers’ websites. Whenever possible, taxonomic information was recorded to the species level, but for most sites only genus, and often classes, orders, and/or families were available. The nomenclature and ecological attributions follow the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes.
To publish on the platform, the compiled data were organized in a table as "absence" or "presence" in each mapped archaeological site.
Citation
Fossile, T, Colonese, AC (2023). TRADITION Project Brazilian Zooarch Database (ZooarchBR) - Fish. v1.2. ERC Grant TRADITION Project, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and Universidade da Região de Joinville (Univille). Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.sibbr.gov.br/sibbr/resource?r=tradition_peixes_01&v=1.0
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.
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