Fishing : how the sea fed civilization
Record details
- ISBN: 9780300215342
- ISBN: 0300215347
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Physical Description:
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xvi, 346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm - Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
- Copyright: �2017
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-331) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Bountiful waters -- Part I. Opportunistic fishers. Beginnings ; Neanderthals and moderns ; Shellfish eaters ; Baltic and Danube after the ice ; Rope-patterned fisherfolk ; The great journey revisited ; Fishers on the Pacific Northwest Coast ; The myth of a Garden of Eden ; The Calusa : shallows and sea grass ; The great fish have come in -- Part II. Fishers in the shadows. Rations for Pharaohs ; Fishing the Middle Sea ; Scaly flocks ; The fish eaters ; The Erythraean Sea ; Carp and Khmer ; Anchovies and civilization -- Part III. The end of plenty. Ants of the ocean ; The beef of the sea ; "Inexhaustible manna" ; Depletion ; More in the sea? -- Glossary of fishing terms. |
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Subject: | Fishing History Fishers History Fish trade History Fishing Anthropological aspects Civilization History |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Lummi Library | SH 421 .F34 2017 | 288687 | Stacks | Available | - |
Lummi Library | SH 421 .F34 2017 | 290171 | Stacks | Available | - |