@article{fdi:010068817,
  title = {{P}resent-day {A}frican analogue of a pre-{E}uropean {A}mazonian floodplain fishery shows convergence in cultural niche construction},
  author = {{M}c{K}ey, {D}. {B}. and {D}ur{\'e}cu, {M}. and {P}ouilly, {M}arc and {B}earez, {P}. and {O}vando, {A}. and {K}aleb{\'e}, {M}. and {H}uchzermeyer, {C}. {F}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{E}rickson [{E}rickson {CL} (2000) {N}ature 408 (6809): 190-193] interpreted features in seasonal floodplains in {B}olivia's {B}eni savannas as vestiges of pre-{E}uropean earthen fish weirs, postulating that they supported a productive, sustainable fishery that warranted cooperation in the construction and maintenance of perennial structures. {H}is inferences were bold, because no close ethnographic analogues were known. {A} similar present-day {Z}ambian fishery, documented here, appears strikingly convergent. {T}he {Z}ambian fishery supports {E}rickson's key inferences about the pre-{E}uropean fishery: {I}t allows sustained high harvest levels; weir construction and operation require cooperation; and weirs are inherited across generations. {H}owever, our comparison suggests that the pre-{E}uropean system may not have entailed intensive management, as {E}rickson postulated. {T}he {Z}ambian fishery's sustainability is based on exploiting an assemblage dominated by species with life histories combining high fecundity, multiple reproductive cycles, and seasonal use of floodplains. {A}s water rises, adults migrate from permanent watercourses into floodplains, through gaps in weirs, to feed and spawn. {J}uveniles grow and then migrate back to dryseason refuges as water falls. {A}t that moment fishermen set traps in the gaps, harvesting large numbers of fish, mostly juveniles. {I}n nature, most juveniles die during the first dry season, so that their harvest just before migration has limited impact on future populations, facilitating sustainability and the adoption of a fishery based on inherited perennial structures. {S}outh {A}merican floodplain fishes with similar life histories were the likely targets of the pre-{E}uropean fishery. {C}onvergence in floodplain fish strategies in these two regions in turn drove convergence in cultural niche construction.},
  keywords = {convergent evolution ; cultural evolution ; earthworks ; historical ecology ; tropical stream ecology ; {AFRIQUE} ; {AMERIQUE} {DU} {SUD} ; {BOLIVIE} ; {AMAZONIE} ; {ZAMBIE} ; {ZONE} {TROPICALE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{P}roceedings of the {N}ational {A}cademy of {S}ciences of the {U}nited {S}tates of {A}merica},
  volume = {113},
  numero = {52},
  pages = {14938--14943},
  ISSN = {0027-8424},
  year = {2016},
  DOI = {10.1073/pnas.1613169114},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010068817},
}