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Fishweirs Mississippi Department of
Archives and History 8.5 x 11", xx + 564 pages, 157 b/w figures and photos, 32 tables, four appendicies (one appendix is a lengthy annotated bibliography and one is a glossary of technical terms), bibliography, index.
(0-938896-89-X; 978-0-938896-89-0) |
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Sample pages: Click here for the Table of Contents; Click here for the Preface; Click here for the Introduction; Click here for Chapter 1 (pgs. 5-11)
DESCRIPTION Fishweirs is substantive yet accessible. The book, one result of more than thirty years of research on the subject by the author, is an important reference volume; it will serve as a baseline from which future studies of fishweirs and the mass harvesting of freshwater and coastal saltwater fishes will depart; it will increase public awareness of what once was an important method of resource procurement and the surviving evidence of that activity; and it will guide historians, anthropologists, cultural and natural resource managers, and policymakers in identifying, evaluating, and assessing these distinctive elements of the cultural landscape. Fishweirs is Archaeological Report No. 33 of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. ABOUT THE AUTHOR John M. Connaway was born in New London, Connecticut, and grew up in Helena, Arkansas. He holds degrees in Biology and Anthropology (B.A.) and Anthropology (M.A.) from the University of Mississippi, and has been employed as a field archaeologist by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History since 1968. John has specialized in the prehistoric archaeology of Mississippi and has authored several books, monographs, and articles on the subject. Fishweirs began when, in 1975, John recognized and subsequently published upon the prehistoric Sturdivant Fishweir, the first such feature recorded from Mississippi. That discovery initiated an increasingly complex journey of exploration and discovery of what was, and was not, known about fishweirs globally. Fishweirs is the result of John’s more-than-thirty-year search for the history of how humans have harvested freshwater and coastal saltwater fishes en masse. REVIEWS Fishweirs: A World Perspective with Emphasis on the Fishweirs of Mississppi by John M. Connaway is a 564-page compendium of descriptive, archeological, and historical information on a form of trap used to catch fish. Called a 'fishweir,' these traps come in many forms and (according to archaeological record) have been utilized in streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans for thousands of years. An impressive and seminal work of exhaustive, comprehensive scholarship, Fishweirs... is organized into two main sections. Fishweirs in a Global and Regional Context describes what fishweirs are, provides a global perspective into their uses and designs, and the development of fishweir law in North American waters. Fishweirs in Mississippi draws a tighter focus into the use and design of fishweirs in the Mississippi from prehistory and in Native American cultures down to the present day. A third section is devoted to four appendices: an Annotated Bibliography: Worldwide Archaeological and Historical Source Material on Fishweirs; Fishweir Questionnaire; and Glossary of Selected Terms Related to Fishweirs and Mass Fish Procurement. Enhanced further with occasional illustrations and maps, as well as the inclusion of an extensive bibliography and a comprehensive index, Fishwiers... is a unique and valued contribution that should be a part of professional and academic library reference collections. -- John Burroughs, Reviewer for The Midwest Book Review
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