The exploitation and cultural importance of sea mammals /
By: Proceedings of the International Council for Archaeozoology conference 9th : 2002 : Durham, England.
Contributor(s): Monks, Gregory G.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow Books, c2005Description: viii, 173 p. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781842171264; 9781842171264:.Subject(s): Marine mammal remains (Archaeology) -- Congresses | Sealing -- History -- Congresses | Marine mammals -- Congresses | Whaling -- History -- Congresses | Hunting, Prehistoric -- Congresses | Fishing, Prehistoric -- Congresses | Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Congresses | Seashore ecology -- CongressesDDC classification: 930.1Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 930.1 PRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0067246 |
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Humans are known to exploit plant and animal resources for a variety of purposes. This text 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.