Distribution of Albatross Remains in the Far East Regions during the Holocene, Based on Zooarchaeological Remains(Ecology)

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Many albatross remains have been found in the Japanese Islands and the surrounding areas, such as Sakhalin and South Korea. These remains are intersting two reasons: numerous sites from which albatross remains have been found are located in coastal regions of Far East where no albatrosses have been distributed recently, and there are some sites in which albatross remains represent a large portion of avian remains, although albatrosses are not easily preyed upon by human beings. We collected date on albatross remains from archaeological sites in the Far East regions during the Holocene and arranged the remains geographically, temporally and in terms of quantity. Based on these results, we showed that coastal areas along the Seas of Okhotsk and Japan habe rarely been used by albatrosses in Modern times,though formerly there were many albatrosses. We proposed two explanations for the shrinkage of their distributional range: excessive hunting in the breeding areas, and distributional changes of prey for albatrosses.
社団法人日本動物学会の論文
2004-01-25