Ancient whale exploitation in the Mediterranean: the archaeological record
Autor: | Liora Kolska Horwitz, Darío Bernal-Casasola, Armelle Gardeisen, Peggy Morgenstern, Gaël Piquès, Barbara Wilkens, Tatiana Theodoropoulou |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
Mediterranean climate
010506 paleontology Archeology 060102 archaeology biology Whale General Arts and Humanities Archaeological record 06 humanities and the arts 01 natural sciences Archaeology Late Antiquity Geography biology.animal Blubber 0601 history and archaeology 14. Life underwater Zooarchaeology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
Zdroj: | Antiquity. 90:914-927 |
ISSN: | 1745-1744 0003-598X |
Popis: | Despite a general paucity of archaeological, archaeozoological and iconographic evidence from the Upper Palaeolithic through to Late Antiquity, the corpus of whalebone finds in the Mediterranean region indicates that some level of interaction between humans and whales did indeed occur. A concentration of finds from Roman contexts suggests more active interventions in this period, especially around the Western Mediterranean and the Strait of Gibraltar—a ‘cetacean hotspot’. Whale vertebrae or scapulae were sometimes fashioned into portable chopping boards, identified from cut-marks made by fishermen or craftsmen, but whale meat and blubber may have been less important owing to abundant alternative food and fuel sources. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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