Codfish and kings, seals and subsistence: Norse marine resource use in the North Atlantic

Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A Global Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 197-214

  Perdikaris, Sophia ^a   McGovern, Thomas H ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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