Marine mollusc exploitation in Mediterranean prehistory: an overview

AC Colonese, MA Mannino, DEBY Mayer, DA Fa… - Quaternary …, 2011 - Elsevier
… as the Last Interglacial, although the scale of this exploitation is still unclear, due to biases …
exploitation of marine molluscs apparently increased in the Late Glacial and Early Holocene, …

Changes in molluscan exploitation patterns during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in eastern Cantabria (northern Spain)

FI Gutiérrez-Zugasti - Trekking the Shore: Changing Coastlines and the …, 2011 - Springer
molluscs, at least as regards the exploitation of the coast. In short, this chapter seeks to
establish mollusc exploitation … the sites will be analysed, based on the mollusc exploitation data. …

[PDF][PDF] Holocene coastal change and intertidal mollusc exploitation in the central Mediterranean: variations in shell size and morphology at Grotta d'Oriente (Sicily)

AC Colonese, D Lo Vetro, F Martini - Archaeofauna, 2014 - revistas.uam.es
Holocene, during Mesolithic and Mesolithic-… the Holocene in the area. This paper presents
the results of morphometric analysis of shells of intertidal species from the early Holocene

Insights into early Holocene hunter-gatherer mobility on the Peruvian Southern Coast from mollusk gathering seasonality

M Carré, L Klaric, D Lavallee, M Julien… - Journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
… left the settlement or stopped exploiting the mollusk resource for another more preferred
resource. It is important to compare the extent of mollusk gathering season to lomas activity …

[PDF][PDF] … ? Mode and periodicity of marine mollusc exploitation on the Mediterranean island of Favignana (Ègadi Islands, Italy) during its isolation in the early Holocene

MA Mannino, KD Thomas, ER Crema, MJ Leng - Archaeofauna, 2014 - researchgate.net
molluscs from Grotta d’Oriente with the aim of characterizing the role and seasonality of
their exploitation within the subsistence of the early Holocene hunter-gatherers of Favignana. …

Late Pleistocene-Holocene shoreline reconstruction and human exploitation of molluscan resources in northern Pieria, Macedonia, Greece

A Krahtopoulou, R Veropoulidou - Journal of Archaeological Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
… and social factors in shaping patterns of prehistoric human exploitation of molluscs. Although
it appears that attitudes towards molluscs were originally shaped by natural availability and …

… hunter-gatherer subsistence, mobility and territoriality in a Mediterranean coastal landscape through isotope analyses on marine mollusc shell carbonates and human …

MA Mannino, KD Thomas, MJ Leng, R Di Salvo… - Quaternary …, 2011 - Elsevier
… In the early Holocene, by contrast, marine molluscs were exploited longer during the year,
attesting to a change in mobility strategies and, probably, frequent moves within more …

Late Pleistocene and Holocene coastal palaeoeconomies: a reconsideration of the molluscan evidence from northern Spain

GN Bailey, AS Craighead - Geoarchaeology: An International …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… In this case, it is necessary to rely on physical and chemical signals embodied in the shell
structure of the exploited molluscs. As we show below, these can offer valuable independent …

Depletion of a resource? The impact of prehistoric human foraging on intertidal mollusc communities and its significance for human settlement, mobility and dispersal

MA Mannino, KD Thomas - World archaeology, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
exploitation on marine molluscs and how ‘overexploitation’ … of prehistoric human exploitation
of intertidal resources and how … Late Pleistocene and early Holocene coastal landscapes …

Shells and humans: Molluscs and other coastal resources from the earliest human occupations at the Mesolithic Shell Midden of El Mazo (Asturias, Northern Spain)

A García Escárzaga, FI Gutiérrez Zugasti… - 2017 - repositorio.unican.es
… Apart from molluscs, other marine organisms such as fish, … , demonstrated that molluscs
were exploited with high intensity at … the early Holocene. The substitution process started at the …