Neolithic fish remains from the freshwater shell midden Riņņukalns in northern Latvia

Environmental Archaeology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 325-333

  Schmölcke, Ulrich ^a   Meadows, John ^a,b   Ritchie, Kenneth ^a   Bērziņš, Valdis ^c   Lübke, Harald ^a   Zagorska, Ilga ^c  

^a Schleswig Holstein State Museums Foundation Schloss Gottorf   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Archaeoichthyology; Conservation biology; Environmental history; Fishing; Stable isotope analyses

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027942860     PISSN: 14614103     EISSN: 17496314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1749631415Y.0000000011     Document Type: Article

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