Place, memory and identity among estuarine fishing communities: Interpreting the archeology of early medieval fish weirs

World Archaeology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 449-468

  O'Sullivan, Aidan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Britain; Estuarine archeology; Fish weirs; Ireland; Landscape; Medieval; Memory; Social identity

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; FISHING COMMUNITY; MIDDLE AGES; WEIR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1842633282     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0043824042000185810     Document Type: Article

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