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Title

The exploitation and cultural importance of sea mammals / edited by Gregory G. Monks.

Author

International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference (9th : 2002 : Durham, England)

Publication

Oxford, [England] : Oxbow ; Oakville, CT : [Distribued in the U.S. by] D. Brown Book Co., c2005.

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Additional Authors

Monks, Gregory G.

Description

viii, 173 p. : ill., maps; 31 cm.

Summary

Humans are known to exploit plant and animal resources for a variety of purposes. Subsistence is the most obvious of these, but there are also social and technological reasons behind such activities, not to mention ideological and spiritual motives for exploitation. In order to maximise exploitation of resources, human often exploit ecotones, where several ecological zones exist in close proximity. The seashore is such an ecotone, and sea mammals are just one of many groups of resources who are available here. This volume looks to address some of the vast array of coastal adaptations that have occurred during the human past and the role that sea mammals have played in them.

Series Statement

International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference (9th : 2002 : Durham, England). Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology.

Subject

• Marine mammal remains (Archaeology) > Congresses
• Marine mammals > Congresses
• Sealing > History > Congresses
• Whaling > History > Congresses
• Hunting, Prehistoric > Congresses
• Fishing, Prehistoric > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• At head of title: Proceedings of the 9th conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Durham, August 2002.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From the Palaeolithic to the present-day : the research value of marine mammal remains from archaeological contexts and the uses of contemporary museum reference collections / Richard Sabin -- Retreat and resilience : fur seals and human settlement in New Zealand / Ian Smith -- Archaeofaunal insights on pinniped-human interactions in the northeastern Pacific / D. Gifford-Gonzalez ... [et al.] -- Aleut sea-mammal hunting : ethnohistorical and archaeological evidence / Lucille Lewis Johnson -- Dorset Palaeoeskimo harp seal exploitation at Phillip's Garden (Eebi-1), northwestern Newfoundland / Lisa Hodgetts -- Late Neolithic seal hunting in southern Brittany : a zooarchaeological study of the site of Er Yoh (Morbihan) / K.V. Boyle -- Human exploitation and history of seals in the Baltic during late Holocene / Jan Storå and Lembi Lõugas -- Prehistoric dolphin hunting on Santa Cruz Island, California / Michael A. Glassow -- Cetaceans and humans beings at the uttermost part of America : a lasting relationship in Tierra Del Fuego / Ernesto Luis Piana -- An oil utility index for whale bones / Gregory G. Monks -- A whale of problem? : zooarchaeology and modern whaling / Jacqui Mulville -- Discussion : sea mammals in zooarchaeloogy AD 2002 / Gregory G. Monks.

ISBN

• 1842171267 (cased)
• 9781842171264 (cased)

OCLC

• 56759036
• SCSB-10449968

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library