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Fishing : how the sea fed civilization

Fagan, Brian M., author

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\"Before prehistoric humans began to cultivate grain, they had three main methods of acquiring food: hunting, gathering, and fishing. Hunting and gathering are no longer economically important, having been replaced by their domesticated equivalents, ranching and farming. But fishing, humanity's last major source of food from the wild, has grown into a worldwide industry on which we have never been more dependent. In this history of fishing--not as sport but as sustenance--archaeologist and writer Brian Fagan argues that fishing rivaled agriculture in its importance to civilization. [He] tours archaeological sites worldwide to show ... how fishing fed the development of cities, empires, and ultimately the modern world\"--Jacket flaps.

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Subject: Fishing History. / Fishers History. / Fish trade History. / Fishing Anthropological aspects. / Civilization History.
• ISBN: 9780300215342

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
SH421.F34 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE