Finding Moby: Novel approaches to identifying human-cetacean relationships in Atlantic Scotland from c. 2500 BC to c. AD 1400

• Main Author: Evans, Sally
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: CC Archaeology; Hallan; Sperm whale
• Online Access: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/145992/; https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/145992/1/2021evanssphd.pdf; https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/145992/2/2021evanssappendix4.xlsx; https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/145992/3/2021evanssappendix5.xlsx; https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/145992/4/2021evanssappendix7.xlsx; https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/145992/5/evanss.docx

This thesis examines cetacean bone zooarchaeological assemblages and investigates human-cetacean relationships on the Scottish Islands. Cetaceans provide a wide variety of resources including flesh, baleen, bone and oil and although cetacean bone is found on archaeological sites spanning millennia t...