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 …

The zooarchaeology of complex societies provides insights into the interrelated social and
economic relationships that people and animals created. I present a synthesis of …

The appearance of farming, from its inception in the Near East around 12 000 years ago,
finally reached the northwestern extremes of Europe by the fourth millennium BC or shortly …

Archaeology: An Introduction looks behind the popular aspects of archaeology such as the
discovery and excavation of sites, the study of human remains and animal bones …

When did the market economy come to Europe? Fish might seem an unlikely commodity to
throw light on the matter, but the authors use fish bones from English sites to offer a vivid …

Changing economies and patterns of trade, rather than climatic deterioration, could have
critically marginalized the Norse Greenland settlements and effectively sealed their fate …

This paper explores the potential of stable isotope analysis to identify the approximate
region of catch of cod by analysing bones from medieval settlements in northern and …

Stable isotope measurements and radiocarbon dates on 54 burials from northern Scotland
document trends in marine protein consumption from the late Iron Age to the end of the …

This innovative study offers an up-to-date analysis of the archaeology of the North Sea.
Robert Van de Noort traces the way people engaged with the North Sea from the end of the …

Food and diet are central to understanding daily life in the middle ages. In the last two
decades, the potential for the study of diet in medieval England has changed markedly …