A Fishy Situation - Ep 12

Alex and Simona attempt to make it through an entire episode of our most hated type of bone: fish bones. Listen as they talk about the difficulties of dealing with archaeological fish and why they are actually quite important! Oh, and lots of complaining. Ugh...fish bones.

Bibliography

• Killgrove, K. (2019) Vat of Ancient Fish Sauce May Confirm Date that Pompeii Was Destroyed. Forbes.

• Luff, R. (1984) Animal Remains in Archaeology

  Great Britain: Shire Archaeology

• Rackham, J. (1994) Interpreting the Past: Animal Bones

  Ryder, M. L. (1968) Animal bones in archaeology

  Great Britain: Blackwell Scientific Publications

• Wilkes, E. (2018) Lamprey teeth identified for the first time in London's archaeological record. Phys.org.

• Archaeological Fish Resource from the University of Nottingham

• The North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation (NABO) Fish Identification Manual

• Swandro-Orkney Coastal Archaeology Trust

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Contact

• Alex Fitzpatrick

  • Twitter: @archaeologyfitz

• Simona Falanga

  • Twitter: @CrazyBoneLady

• Music

  • "Coconut - (dyalla remix)"

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY