The fish fauna of early-medieval layers of the Vegetable Market excavation site in Szczecin, Poland
Background. The more than 10-metre deep archaeological site called the Vegetable Market (Kraut Markt), located near the Pomeranian Dukes’ Castle in Szczecin, was explored in 1953-1964. The site was found to contain 20 early-medieval sediment layers and a layer overlying the basement consisting of ri...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:c01412fdbb0c4d618b2a28aabe3f4d2a 2023-05-15T16:08:40+02:00 The fish fauna of early-medieval layers of the Vegetable Market excavation site in Szczecin, Poland Z. Chełkowski B. Kłyszejko B. Chełkowska A. Sobocński 2005-06-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3750/AIP2005.35.1.03 https://doaj.org/article/c01412fdbb0c4d618b2a28aabe3f4d2a EN eng Pensoft Publishers https://aiep.pensoft.net/article/25884/download/pdf/ https://aiep.pensoft.net/article/25884/download/xml/ https://aiep.pensoft.net/article/25884/ https://doaj.org/toc/1734-1515 doi:10.3750/AIP2005.35.1.03 1734-1515 https://doaj.org/article/c01412fdbb0c4d618b2a28aabe3f4d2a Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, Vol 35, Iss 1, Pp 15-27 (2005) archaeological excavations early Middle Ages fis Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling SH1-691 article 2005 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3750/AIP2005.35.1.03 2022-12-31T03:03:07Z Background. The more than 10-metre deep archaeological site called the Vegetable Market (Kraut Markt), located near the Pomeranian Dukes’ Castle in Szczecin, was explored in 1953-1964. The site was found to contain 20 early-medieval sediment layers and a layer overlying the basement consisting of riverine mud. Historically, the layers spanned a period from the second decade of the 10th to the beginning of the 5th decade of the 13th century. Materials and methods. The dig yielded numerous cultural artefacts, including fish remains examined during this study. The present paper summarises continuation of research on fish bone remains. The research allowed to identify a total of 10 085 bones in 725 labelled collections. The identified bones of 20 fish species were compared with bones of the extant known fish species, belonging to individuals of various size. The analysis made it possible to estimate the lowest abundance and weight of the fish present at the archaeological site examined. Results. The assemblage of 20 species, the remains of which were present in sediment of the site, turned out to be dominated, in terms of abundance, by carp bream (26.4%), followed by zander (17.5%), roach (15.9%), tench (9.5%), wels catfish (9.6%), northern pike (6.3%), European perch (6.0%), sturgeon (3.1%), and asp (2.2%), the total fish weight being dominated by sturgeon (31.3%), followed by wels catfish (27.0%), zander (15.3%), carp bream (10.6%), northern pike (5.1%), tench (4.2%), roach (2.2%), asp (2.1%), and European perch (1.1%). The remaining 11 species (twaite shad, European chub, ide, rudd, zope, white bream, Baltic vimba, ziege, crucian carp, European eel, and ruffe) contributed much less both to the abundance and to the weight. Article in Journal/Newspaper European eel Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 35 1 15 27 |
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Background. The more than 10-metre deep archaeological site called the Vegetable Market (Kraut Markt), located near the Pomeranian Dukes’ Castle in Szczecin, was explored in 1953-1964. The site was found to contain 20 early-medieval sediment layers and a layer overlying the basement consisting of riverine mud. Historically, the layers spanned a period from the second decade of the 10th to the beginning of the 5th decade of the 13th century. Materials and methods. The dig yielded numerous cultural artefacts, including fish remains examined during this study. The present paper summarises continuation of research on fish bone remains. The research allowed to identify a total of 10 085 bones in 725 labelled collections. The identified bones of 20 fish species were compared with bones of the extant known fish species, belonging to individuals of various size. The analysis made it possible to estimate the lowest abundance and weight of the fish present at the archaeological site examined. Results. The assemblage of 20 species, the remains of which were present in sediment of the site, turned out to be dominated, in terms of abundance, by carp bream (26.4%), followed by zander (17.5%), roach (15.9%), tench (9.5%), wels catfish (9.6%), northern pike (6.3%), European perch (6.0%), sturgeon (3.1%), and asp (2.2%), the total fish weight being dominated by sturgeon (31.3%), followed by wels catfish (27.0%), zander (15.3%), carp bream (10.6%), northern pike (5.1%), tench (4.2%), roach (2.2%), asp (2.1%), and European perch (1.1%). The remaining 11 species (twaite shad, European chub, ide, rudd, zope, white bream, Baltic vimba, ziege, crucian carp, European eel, and ruffe) contributed much less both to the abundance and to the weight. |
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The fish fauna of early-medieval layers of the Vegetable Market excavation site in Szczecin, Poland |
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The fish fauna of early-medieval layers of the Vegetable Market excavation site in Szczecin, Poland |
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The fish fauna of early-medieval layers of the Vegetable Market excavation site in Szczecin, Poland |
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The fish fauna of early-medieval layers of the Vegetable Market excavation site in Szczecin, Poland |
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