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Fishing : how the sea fed civilization

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Summary
Humanity's last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization In this history of fishing-not as sport but as sustenance-archaeologist and best-selling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an ind... Read more
Contents
Bountiful waters -- Beginnings -- Neanderthals and moderns -- Shellfish eaters -- Baltic and Danube after the ice -- Rope-patterned fisherfolk -- The great journey revisited -- Fishers on the Pacific Northwest Coast -- The myth of a Garden of Eden... Read more
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xvi, 346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Publisher
Yale University Press 2017

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 639 FAG in Adult Non-fiction Available

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