On the Hunt for Medieval Whales
Youri van den Hurk
Broschiertes Buch

On the Hunt for Medieval Whales

Zooarchaeological, historical and social perspectives on cetacean exploitation in medieval northern and western Europe

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Medieval cetacean (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) exploitation has frequently been connected to various medieval societies, including the Basques, Norse, Normans, and Flemish. Primarily for the ninth to the twelfth centuries AD, it has been argued that the symbolic significance of cetaceans surpassed their utilitarian value and that their consumption was restricted to the social elite. The extent to which active whaling was practised remains unclear. The identification of zooarchaeological cetacean fragments to the species level is hard and as a result they are frequently merely identified a...