TRADITION Project | Brazilian Zooarch Database (ZooarchBR) - Fish

Thiago Fossile

doi:10.15468/jvmzc5

TRADITION Project | Brazilian Zooarch Database (ZooarchBR) - Fish

Citation

Fossile T (2024). TRADITION Project | Brazilian Zooarch Database (ZooarchBR) - Fish. Version 1.5. Universidade da Região de Joinville. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/jvmzc5 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-14.

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.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

At the moment, the study area is located between 25°S and 31.5°S latitude and encompasses nearly 1000 km of coastline between the southern Atlantic Forest and the grassland Pampa biomes. At the moment, the faunal assemblage was recovered from Middle and Late Holocene sites along the southern coast of Brazi

Sampling

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.

Quality Control

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.

Method steps

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.

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

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.

Bibliographic Citations

FOSSILE, Thiago; FERREIRA, Jessica; COLONESE, Andre Carlo. Brazilian Zooarch Database: banco de dados da fauna arqueológica do Brasil. Revista de Arqueologia, [S. l.], v. 36, n. 3, p. 311–331, 2023. DOI: 10.24885/sab.v36i3.1088. Disponível em: https://revista.sabnet.org/ojs/index.php/sab/article/view/1088. Acesso em: 13 mar. 2024. - 10.24885/sab.v36i3.1088

Contacts

Thiago Fossile
originator
position: Predoctoral Researcher
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona
ES
email: thiago.fossile@uab.cat
homepage: https://erc-tradition.com/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6997-4677

Thiago Fossile
metadata author
position: Predoctoral Researcher
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona
ES
email: thiago.fossile@uab.cat
homepage: https://erc-tradition.com/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6997-4677

Thiago Fossile
principal investigator
position: Predoctoral Researcher
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona
ES
email: thiago.fossile@uab.cat
homepage: https://erc-tradition.com/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6997-4677

André Carlo Colonese
author
position: Director of Research
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona
ES
email: andrecarlo.colonese@uab.cat
homepage: https://erc-tradition.com/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0279-6634

Thiago Fossile
administrative point of contact
position: Predoctoral Researcher
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona
ES
email: thiago.fossile@uab.cat
homepage: https://erc-tradition.com/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6997-4677

André Carlo Colonese
administrative point of contact
position: Director of Research
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona
ES
email: andrecarlo.colonese@uab.cat
homepage: https://erc-tradition.com/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0279-6634