Interpreting the expansion of sea fishing in medieval Europe using stable isotope analysis of archaeological cod bones |
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| Authors: | James H. Barrett,David Orton,Cluny Johnstone,Jennifer Harland,Wim Van Neer,Anton Ervynck,Callum Roberts,Alison Locker,Colin Amundsen,Inge Bø dker Enghoff,Sheila Hamilton-Dyer,Dirk Heinrich,Anne Karin Hufthammer,Andrew K.G. Jones,Leif Jonsson,Daniel Makowiecki,Peter Pope,Tamsin C. O&rsquo Connell,Tessa de Roo,Michael Richards |
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| Affiliation: | 1. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK;2. Department of Archaeology, University of York, The King’s Manor, York YO1 7EP, UK;3. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium;4. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Laboratory of Animal Biodiversity and Systematics, Ch. Debériotstraat 32, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium;5. Flemish Heritage Institute, Koning Albert II-laan 19 box 5, B-1210 Brussels, Belgium;6. Environment Department, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK;g Edifici L’Ingla, Atic 1a, 58 Avenguda del Pessebre, Escaldes-Engordany, AD 700, Andorra;h University of Tromsø, Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology, HSL-Faculty, Tromsø 9036, Norway;i Natural History Museum of Denmark (Zoological Museum), University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark;j 5 Suffolk Avenue, Shirley, Southampton, SO15 5EF, UK;k Zoological Institute, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Olshausenstraße 40, D-24118 Kiel, Germany;l Bergen Museum, Natural History Collections, University of Bergen, Postboks 7800, 5020 Bergen, Norway;m York Archaeological Trust, 47 Aldwark, York YO1 7BX, UK;n Gothenburg Museum of Natural History, Box 7283, SE 40235 Gothenburg, Sweden;o Institute of Archaeology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Szosa Bydgoska St. 44/48, PL 87-100 Toruń, Poland;p Department of Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland A1C 5S7, Canada;q Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK;r Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, 6303 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada;s Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Archaeological fish bones reveal increases in marine fish utilisation in Northern and Western Europe beginning in the 10th and 11th centuries AD. We use stable isotope signatures from 300 archaeological cod (Gadus morhua) bones to determine whether this sea fishing revolution resulted from increased local fishing or the introduction of preserved fish transported from distant waters such as Arctic Norway, Iceland and/or the Northern Isles of Scotland (Orkney and Shetland). Results from 12 settlements in England and Flanders (Belgium) indicate that catches were initially local. Between the 9th and 12th centuries most bones represented fish from the southern North Sea. Conversely, by the 13th to 14th centuries demand was increasingly met through long distance transport – signalling the onset of the globalisation of commercial fisheries and suggesting that cities such as London quickly outgrew the capacity of local fish supplies. |
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| Keywords: | Trade Economic intensification Urbanism Stable isotopes Cod Middle ages |
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