Exploring the Role of Pinnipeds in the Human Colonization of the Seascapes of Patagonia and Scandinavia

• Main Authors: Bjerck, Hein B., Breivik, Heidi Mjelva, Piana, Ernesto Luis, Zangrando, Atilio Francisco Javier
• Other Authors: Fretheim, Silje E., Tivoli, Angelica Montserrat, Skar, Birgitte
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Equinox Publishing
• Subjects: Off shore marine foraging; Marine habitats; Sea-ice; Late Pleistocene/Holocene; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6; Austral; Patagonia; Argentina; Noruega; Breivik; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/127624

Pinnipeds (seals) were probably important pull factors for the earliest marine foragers in the seascapes of Patagonia and Scandinavia in the early Holocene. Important reasons for this may be that 1) pinnipeds could be hunted on shores (or sea-ice) with more or less the same methods and equipment as...