Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
de Brian Fagan
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- 030024004X
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- 9780300240047
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Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Yale University Press, 2018. Paperback. New. Chronicle's how fishing has feed us and shaped where we settled. New softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. Clean text free of marks or underling. Contains a glossary, author's notes, and an index. 369 pp. 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 indispensable and often overlooked element in the growth of civilization. It sustainably provided enough food to allow cities, nations, and empires to grow, but it did so with a different emphasis. Where agriculture encouraged stability, fishing demanded movement. It frequently required a search for new and better fishing grounds; its technologies, centered on boats, facilitated movement and discovery; and fish themselves, when dried and salted, were the ideal food--lightweight, nutritious, and long-lasting--for traders, travelers, and conquering armies. This history of the long interaction of humans and seafood tours archaeological sites worldwide to show readers how fishing fed human settlement, rising social complexity, the development of cities, and ultimately the modern world.
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- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
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- 2061
- Título
- Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
- Autor
- Brian Fagan
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 030024004X
- ISBN 13
- 9780300240047
- Editorial
- Yale University Press
- Fecha de publicación
- 2018
- Palabras clave
- Sea level change, Calusa people, Atlantic cod, Baltic Sea, Ertebølle people, Bering Land Bridge, Trawlers, fishhooks, Aleut people, Hanseatic League, Chumash people, canoes, overfishing, Bajondillo Cave, Spain, Eryhrean Sea, Ainu people, North
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