From harvesting the sea to stock rearing along the Atlantic Façade of North-West Europe

Environmental Archaeology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-154

  Schulting, Rick ^a   Tresset, Anne ^b   Dupont, Catherine ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

Fauna; Marine exploitation; Mesolithic; Neolithic

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749430205     PISSN: 14614103     EISSN: 17496314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/env.2004.9.2.143     Document Type: Article

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