Direct Evidence for Bottom-fishing in Archaeological Whelks (Buccinum undatum)

“What do I do with all these shells?” Basic guidance for the recovery, processing and retention of archaeological marine shells

“…The harvesting techniques employed and the long-term impact on the shellfish population of those techniques (e.g. : Jones andRichman, 1995 andWhitaker, 2008), and the technology used for harvesting (Hancock, 1967;Dupont, 2010;Campbell and Russell, 2014), and can also be reconstructed.…”

Calibration of shell δ18O from the common whelk Buccinum undatum highlights potential for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction

“…No previous work has reconstructed seawater temperatures in B. undatum shells using isotope data despite this species' wide distribution and commercial importance. As B. undatum is present in the fossil record as far back as the Pliocene (3.6 Ma; Behrensmeyer and Turner, 2017) and is occasionally found in Neolithic, Mesolithic and Palaeolithic shell midden assemblages throughout North Atlantic Europe (Thomas and Mannino, 1999;Dupont, 2006;Campbell and Russell, 2014), they have the potential to be utilized in archaeological studies focussed on marine climate reconstruction.…”