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Land and sea: use of terrestrial mammal bones in coastal hunter–gatherer communities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lisa Hodgetts  and
Farid Rahemtulla
Lisa Hodgetts
Affiliation:
Archaeology Unit, Queen's College, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's NF, A1C 5S7 Canada
Farid Rahemtulla
Affiliation:
Anthropology Program, University of Northern British Columbia, 3333 University Way, Prince George BC, V2N 4Z9 Canada.
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Terrestrial mammals are frequently undervalued in interpretations of prehistoric coastal economies where middens are used to examine seasonality and diet. Using case-studies from the Northwest Coast of North America, and from Arctic Norway, a more integrated approach to subsistence and technology is proposed

Keywords

terrestrial mammalsmarine economydietraw materialsbone tools
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Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 287 , March 2001 , pp. 56 - 62
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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