Marine historical ecology emerged in the scholarly literature with the aim of understanding
long‐term dynamics in marine ecosystems and the outcomes of past human–ocean …

This paper explores the past and potential contribution of archaeology to marine historical
ecology. The primary focus is European fishing of marine and diadromous taxa, with global …

Knowledge of the range and chronology of historic trade and long-distance transport of
natural resources is essential for determining the impacts of past human activities on marine …

Fisheries are of fundamental importance to Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest of
North America today and in the past but few archaeological analyses have documented …

We propose the concept of Accelerated Marine Extraction to signify two periods when
rapidly increasing cod (Gadus morhua, Gadidae) and herring (Clupea harengus, Clupeidae) …

Historical research is playing an increasingly important role in marine sciences. Historical
data are also used in policy making and marine resource management, and have helped to …

The largest commercial fishery in medieval Europe developed in the western Baltic. The aim
of this paper is to assess traded and landed amounts of the main target species, Atlantic …

This handbook provides advice on best practice for the recovery, publication and archiving
of animal bones and teeth from Holocene archaeological sites (ie from approximately the …

The growth and development of towns and urbanism in the pre-modern world has been of
interest to archaeologists since the nineteenth century. Much of the early archaeological …

Archaeological records provide a unique source of direct data on long-term human-
environment interactions and samples of ecosystems affected by differing degrees of human …