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'Of fish and men' = 'De iasg agus dhaoine' : a study of the utilization of marine resources as recovered from selected Hebridean archaeological sites

Title
'Of fish and men' = 'De iasg agus dhaoine' : a study of the utilization of marine resources as recovered from selected Hebridean archaeological sites / Ruby N. Cerón-Carrasco.
Author
Ceron-Cerrasco, Ruby.
Publication
Oxford : Archaeopress, 2005.

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Description
ix, 258 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm.
Series Statement
BAR British series ; 400
Uniform Title
BAR British series ; 400.
Alternative Title
'De iasg agus dhaoine'
Subject
  • Animal remains (Archaeology) > Scotland > Hebrides
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Scotland > Hebrides
  • Marine resources > Scotland > Hebrides
  • Antiquities, Prehistoric > Scotland > Hebrides
  • 15.32 prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology
  • Animal remains (Archaeology)
  • Antiquities
  • Antiquities, Prehistoric
  • Excavations (Archaeology)
  • Marine resources
  • Visserij
  • Opgravingen
  • Hebrides (Scotland) > Antiquities
  • Scotland > Hebrides
  • Hebriden
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-77).
Contents
Methodology -- The physical and bio-geographical context of the Outer Hebrides -- Taphonomy: fish bone and molluscan assemblages at Bostadh Beach -- Aspects of the harvesting marine resources in recent centuries -- A preliminary overview of fishing implements in the Scottish archaeological and historical record -- Likely archaeological signatures based on ethnography and modern fisheries biology: Bostadh Beach case study -- Discussion of fishing during in the Iron Age and Norse period of the Western Isles.
ISBN
  • 1841718793
  • 9781841718798
OCLC
  • ocm63185529
  • 63185529
  • SCSB-1379372
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library