On the hunt for medieval whales : zooarchaeological, historical and social perspectives on cetacean exploitation in medieval northern and western Europe /
Medieval cetacean (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) exploitation has frequently been connected to various medieval societies, including the Basques, Norse, Normans, and Flemish. Primarily for the ninth to the twelfth centuries AD, it has been argued that the symbolic significance of cetaceans surpas...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
BAR Publishing,
2020.
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| Series: | UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD series ;
v. 4. BAR international series ; 2998. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Materials and methods
- Cetaceans and the North Atlantic Ocean. Origin and evolution of cetaceans ; The North Atlantic Ocean ; Cetacean species in the northeast Atlantic ; Cetaceans and mediveal climate variability ; Strandings ; Exploitation products ; Pre-whaling population size
- Cetaceans in a medieval historical context. Methods ; Pre-medieval and medieval perception of cetaceans ; Whaling people ; Stranding events in historical sources ; Cetaceans, status, and diet ; Medieval marine resources exploitation in context ; Conclusion
- Cetaceans in zooarchaeology. Taphonomy ; Identification of cetacean remains ; Active whaling vs. opportunistic scavenging ; Zooarchaeology, cetaceans, and the interpretation of socioeconomic status ; Conclusion
- Zooarchaeological research on cetaceans from medieval northern and western Europe. Methods ; Results ; Conclusion
- Case studies. Netherlands and Flanders: zooarchaeological analysis of medieval cetacean remains from the Netherlands and Flanders ; England: "The exploitation of sea-mammals in medieval England: bones and their social context": >20 years on ; Grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus): greys in grey literature: the demise of the North Atlantic Grey Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) ; Conclusion
- Social implications of cetacean exploitation in medieval northern and western Europe. Normans ; Basques ; Anglo-Saxons and the English ; Danes ; Polish ; Portuguese ; Sami ; Norse ; Norse-Gaels ; Frisians ; Dutch ; Flemish
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- References used in appendix.