IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/yenvxx/v21y2016i4p309-316.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Fjord fishing in Mesolithic Western Norway

Author

Listed:
  • Kenneth Ritchie
  • Anne Karin Hufthammer
  • Knut Andreas Bergsvik

Abstract

Recent excavations at two rockshelters (Olsteinhelleren and Sævarhelleren) on the Hardanger fjord in Western Norway have provided an unparalleled opportunity to examine the Mesolithic subsistence economy of this region. Thousands of fish remains (as well as numerous mammal and bird bones) have been analysed from these assemblages. Results show that the fishery was dominated by gadids, but labrids and salmonids were also important. Many other fish were present in small quantities, including the first specimen of sturgeon from the Stone Age of Norway. The transition to a more specialised fishery at the younger site, Olsteinhelleren, may be a reflection of a switch to the use of this locality as a logistic camp for the targeting of gadid fish.

Suggested Citation

  • Kenneth Ritchie & Anne Karin Hufthammer & Knut Andreas Bergsvik, 2016. "Fjord fishing in Mesolithic Western Norway," Environmental Archaeology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(4), pages 309-316, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:yenvxx:v:21:y:2016:i:4:p:309-316
    DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2015.1118212
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14614103.2015.1118212
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/14614103.2015.1118212?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:yenvxx:v:21:y:2016:i:4:p:309-316. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/yenv .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.