Marine ventures : archaeological perspectives on human-sea relations / edited by Hein B. Bjerck, Heidi Mjelva Breibik, Silje E. Fretheim, Ernesto L. Piana, Birgitte Skar, Angélica M. Tivoli, and A. Francisco J. Zangrando.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bjerck, Hein Bjartmann, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Underwater archaeology.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

xxii, 428 pages ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Sheffield ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2016.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Marine ventures - archaeological perspectives on human-sea relations / Hein B. Bjerck and A. Francisco J. Zangrando

Beginnings: Early marine foraging and adaptive trajectories. 2. Shells on the hill : marine fauna in the caves with Upper Pleistocene and Holocene levels in La Garma Archaeological Zone, Cantabria, Spain / Esteban Álvarez-Fernández ; 3. The emergence of sedentism in Mesolithic western Norway : a case-study from the rockshelters of Sævarhelleren and Olsteinhelleren by the Hardanger Fjord / Knut Andreas Bergsvik, Anne Karin Hufthammer and Kenneth Ritchie ; 4. Exploring the role of pinnipeds in the human colonization of the seascapes of Patagonia and Scandinavia / Hein B. Bjerck, Heidi Mjelva Breivik, Ernesto L. Piana and A. Francisco J. Zangrando ; 5. On the applicability of environmental and ethnographic reference frames : an example from the high-latitude seascapes of Norway and Tierra del Fuego / Heidi Mjelva Breivik, Hein B. Bjerck, A. Francisco J. Zangrando and Ernesto L. Piana ; 6. Hakai, a late-glacial to early Holocene palaeoshoreline "sweet spot" on the west coast of Canada / Daryl Fedje and Duncan McLaren ; 7. Two case studies in the initial early Holocene colonisation in parts of Europe's Atlantic edges : it's not getting there that matters / Peter C. Woodman ; 8. Exploring trajectories towards social complexity : marine foragers in the archipelagos of Tierra del Fuego and Norway / A. Francisco J. Zangrando, Angélica M. Tivoli, Hein B. Bjerck, Heidi Mjelva Breivik, Silje E. Fretheim and Ernesto L. Piana

Life styles : settlements and subsistence by the sea. 9. Searching for maritime hunter-gatherer archaeological record in the shifting shorelines of the South Pacific coast (Chonos and Guaitecas Archipelago, Chile) / Omar Reyes, Manuel San Román and Flavia Morello ; 10. Archaeology of maritime hunter-gatherers from southernmost Patagonia, South America : discussing timing, changes and cultural traditions during the Holocene / Manuel San Román, Omar Reyes, Jimena Torres and Flavia Morello ; 11. Home by the sea : exploring traditions of dwelling reoccupation and settlement stability among marine foragers in Norway and Tierra del Fuego / Silje E. Fretheim, Ernesto L. Piana, Hein B. Bjerck and A. Francisco J. Zangrando ; 12. Coastal hazards, resiliency and the co-evolution of human-natural systems along the southeast coast of Sri Lanka during the late Quaternary (c. 30,000-3000 BP) : preliminary findings of the 2013 Bundala Archaeological Survey / Hans Harmsen and Priyantha Karunaratne ; 13. Icescapes and archaeology : interactions above and below zero / Jason Rogers ; 14. A submerged Mesolithic grave site reveals remains of the first Norwegian seal hunters / Birgitte Skar, Kerstin Lidén, Gunilla Eriksson and Berit Sellevold ; 15. Rethinking the Mesolithic of the Sado palaeo-estuary, Portugal : semi-sedentary hunter-gatherers / Joaquina Soares ; 16. Marine adaptation in the Middle Mesolithic of south-eastern Norway / Steinar Solheim and Per Persson ; 17. Fishing as a new commercial profession and the dawn of new habitation along the Norwegian coast / Helge Sørheim

Seafaring : logistics, encounters and communications. 18. Indigenous sailing in the Arctic / Evguenia V. Anichtchenko ; 19. Chaloupes and kayaks : European mariners and the seascapes of intercultural contact / Amanda Crompton and Lisa K. Rankin ; 20. The seascapes of Santarosae : palaeocoastal seafaring on California's Channel Islands / Jon M Erlandson ; 21. Marine ventures in Stone Age rock art of Fennoscandia / Jan Magne Gjerde ; 22. Marine ventures and Thomas Bridges' Yamana-English dictionary / Magnhild M. Husøy and Elisabeth F. Swensen ; 23. Quartz utilization along the coast of southern Norway : results from a Stone Age survey in Aust-Agder / Svein Vatsvåg Nielsen, Joachim Åkerstrøm, Jo-Simon Frøshaug Stokke and Knut Fossdal Eskeland ; 24. Kayaks and chaloupes : Labrador Inuit and the seascapes of inter-cultural contact / Lisa K. Rankin and Amanda Crompton ; 25. Bronze Age connections across the Baltic Sea : discussing metalwork as source of maritime contacts in prehistory / Uwe Sperling.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781781791363

1781791368

OCLC:

922462309

Publisher Number:

99969500802