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Later Mesolithic Fishing Strategies and Practices in Denmark
David J. Quill Smart
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Front Cover
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Copyright
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Acknowledgements
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Abstract
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Contents
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List of Tables
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List of Figures
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List of Plates
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PART 1: Fishing in Prehistory
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Chapter 1: A modern approach to an ancient activity
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Chapter 2: A brief history of the discoveries and initial interpretations of the material evidence from Mesolithic marine/coastal sites in various places in NW Europe
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Chapter 3: Analogy and ethnography in archaeology: aids for the interpretation of the material evidence and human behaviour patterns in relation to fishing practices
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Chapter 4: Sea-level change and the effect on fish, shellfish and fishing practices
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Chapter 5: Standardisation of calibrated dates for material associated with fish/shellfish and fishing practices
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PART 2: Prehistoric Fishing in Late Mesolithic Denmark
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Chapter 6: The stratigraphy of the Danish shell middens. Interpretation using 'standard-dates' graphics and/or Harris Matrix diagrams
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Chapter 7: The material evidence: fish bones and otoliths. Problems with the evidence when constructing an overview of fishing strategies and practices
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Chapter 8, Part 1: The paleodiet. Mesolithic bones, isotopic and elemental analysis and interpretations. Bone pathology and the implications for dietary explanations
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Chapter 8, Part 2: Problems with identifying shellfish meat consumption: an experimental proposal
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Chapter 9, Part 1: Preparing to fish: strategies, methods and practice and the special case of freshwater eels
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Chapter 9, Part 2: Summary of the archaeological evidence for fishing, including a catalogue of sites with distribution maps and their interpretation
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Chapter 10, Part 1: Analogy: Using ethnohistory and ethnoarchaeology
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Chapter 10, Part 2: The Great Bait Debate: fish-catching devices
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Chapter 11: Integration: Late Mesolithic fishing strategies and the 'arrival' of agriculture
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Chapter 12: Conclusions
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Table 7
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Appendix 1
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Appendix 2
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Bibliography
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Published: 2003
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781841713281 (paperback)
- 9781407325170 (ebook)
BAR Number: S1119