Marine resource intensification in Viking Age Europe: the molluscan evidence from Quoygrew, Orkney

Milner, Nicky; Barrett, James H.; Welsh, Jon

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2006.11.004

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“…Swadling 1976Swadling , 1977Botkin 1980;Spennemann 1987;Yesner 1988;Jerardino 1997;Lightfoot and Cerrato 1998;Bourke 2000Bourke , 2002Peacock 2000;omas 2001, 2002;Bailey and Craighead 2003;Masse et al 2006;Braje et al 2007;Milner et al 2007;Antczak et al 2008;Baez and Jackson 2008;Erlandson et al 2008;Morrison and Cochrane 2008;Nielsen 2008;Parkington 2008;Peacock and Mistak 2008;Rick et al 2008;Whitaker 2008;Yamazaki and Oda 2009;Giovas et al 2010;angavelu et al 2011). In many of these studies, a reduction in average shell size and changes in the relative abundance of higher-ranked resources in the archaeological record are viewed as indicating increased pressure via human or environmental factors (e.g.…”

Section: Methods For Testing the Level Of Exploitationmentioning

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Life on the Margins : An Archaeological Investigation of Late Holocene Economic Variability, Blue Mud Bay, Northern Australia

Faulkner¹

2013

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terra australis 38Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present. (2000) Volume 16 List of volumes in Terra Australis

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Section: Methods For Testing the Level Of Exploitationmentioning

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Life on the Margins : An Archaeological Investigation of Late Holocene Economic Variability, Blue Mud Bay, Northern Australia

Faulkner¹

2013

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“…Detailed accounts of the species composition and relative abundance across temporal sequences in shell middens are not available. However, the analyses of body size of harvested molluscs in shell middens may be used as an indicator of human impact (Jerardino, 1997;Milner et al, 2007). For example, it is well known that prehistoric gatherers exploited intertidal populations of the muricid snail C. concholepas ('loco') more than 9000 years BP (Llagostera, 1979;Jerardino et al, 1992;Baez et al, 2004).…”

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Reconstructing the history of human impacts on coastal biodiversity in Chile: constraints and opportunities

Rivadeneira

Santoro

Marquet

2009

Aquatic Conservation

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ABSTRACT1. Although Chile is at the forefront in evaluating experimentally the importance of human harvesting impacts on coastal biodiversity, there are no evaluations of such impacts on a long-term historical basis (tens to thousands of years). Different types of archival information (i.e. contemporaneous, archaeological, and palaeontological) were used to carry out a research programme based on the historical assessment of the impacts and intensity of resource extraction on coastal biodiversity along the Chilean coast.2. In addition to recent scientific literature, different sources of contemporaneous information (e.g. museum collections, old reports and accounts) can reveal the human impacts observed in the more recent past. Furthermore, the large number of prehistoric shell middens along the entire Chilean coast offer access to $11 000 years of history along the entire coast, although the faunal composition, structure, and dynamics of most of them remain largely unstudied.3. Finally, the rich and widespread fossil record of some marine groups provides the opportunity to reconstruct the structure and dynamics of benthic communities during different phases of human influence (e.g. pre-human, prehistoric harvesting, and modern harvesting).4. Preliminary comparisons of fossil versus modern bivalve assemblages suggest marked changes in the species composition. Human impacts seem very recent and shifts in the structure of benthic assemblages may have occurred only a few centuries/decades ago.5. In contrast, prehistoric harvesting, although intense, was apparently not enough to cause a profound impact on coastal ecosystems. The approach herein envisaged can provide the basis to build a historical baseline to evaluate the human impacts on the coastal biodiversity in the region.

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“…Cartwright 1982, 25), in Viking-era settlements in northern Britain (e.g. Milner et al 2007Milner et al , 1466O'Connor 1984), in later Saxon English towns (e.g. Winder 1980, 125) and coastal sites (e.g.…”

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

Campbell¹,

Russell²

2014

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Marine resource intensification in Viking Age Europe: the molluscan evidence from Quoygrew, Orkney

Cited by 58 publications

References 19 publications

Life on the Margins : An Archaeological Investigation of Late Holocene Economic Variability, Blue Mud Bay, Northern Australia

Life on the Margins : An Archaeological Investigation of Late Holocene Economic Variability, Blue Mud Bay, Northern Australia

Reconstructing the history of human impacts on coastal biodiversity in Chile: constraints and opportunities

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

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