Introduction: shell middens in Atlantic Europe (Nicky Milner,
Oliver E Craig & Geoffrey N Bailey)
Mesolithic coastal settlements and shell middens in Norway (Hein B
Bjerck)
Shell middens ("Køkkenmøddinger") in Danish Prehistory as a
reflection of the marine environment (Søren H Andersen)
Fishing for storage: Mesolithic short term fishing for long term
consumption (Eva Schaller Åhrberg)
Coastal fishing in Stone Age Denmark - evidence from below and
above the present sea level and from the bones of human beings
(Anders Fischer)
Land snails and shell middens: A new approach in Danish
archaeological research (Nina Nielsen)
Residue analysis of ceramics from prehistoric shell middens in
Denmark: Initial investigations at Norsminde and Bjørnsholm (Carl
Heron, Oliver E Craig, Marcus Forster, Ben Stern & Søren H
Andersen)
Middens in Scottish prehistory: time, space and relativity
(Caroline Wickham-Jones)
A Late Mesolithic - Early Neolithic midden at West Voe, Shetland
(Nigel D Melton & Rebecca A Nicholson)
Deconstructing the myths of Irish shell middens (Nicky Milner &
Peter Woodman)
Determining the season of collection of inter-tidal gastropods from
analyses of shell carbonates: Modern analogue data and 'internal
analysis' of data from archaeological shells (Marcello A Mannino &
Kenneth D Thomas)
Prehistoric shell middens along the French Atlantic façade: the use
of marine and terrestrial resources in the diets of coastal human
populations (Catherine Dupont, Rick Schulting & Anne Tresset)
The use of marine resources by the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic
societies of Cantabrian Spain: The current evidence (Miguel A
Fano)
Pico Ramos cave shell midden: Mesolithic-Neolithic transition by
the Bay of Biscay (Lydia Zapata, Nicky Milner & Eufrasia
Roselló)
The Muge Mesolithic complex: New results from the excavations of
Cabeço da Amoreira 2001-2003 (Jose Manuel Rolão & Mirjana
Roksandic)
The influence of environmental change on Mesolithic
settlement-subsistence and shell midden formation along the Lower
Tagus River, Portugal (Tim van der Schriek, David G Passmore,
Anthony C Stevenson & Jose Manuel Rolão)
Twenty years of Ethnoarchaeological research in Tierra del Fuego:
Some thoughts for European Shell-Midden Archaeology (Jordi Estévez,
Assumpció Vila & the DEVARA Group)
Discussion: Middens of the Sea Peoples (Atholl Anderson)
Nicky Milner is a Professor at the University of York, specialising in the Mesolithic period. She has co-directed excavations at Star Carr since 2004.
By investigating various archaeological aspects that make or not a shell midden in prehistoric Atlantic Europe, this volume provides a valuable synthesis but also goes beyond the topic of middens, shells and Mesolithic.' -- Anthropozoologica Anthropozoologica
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