Comments on: Book review – Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization

By: Book review – The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 15:38:34 +0000

[…] This fed into trade that supplied both natural resources that were easily overharvested (timber, fish, animal furs, and whale products) and luxury products from outside of Europe (e.g. silk, cotton, […]

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By: Book review – Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World – and Us | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:22:39 +0000

[…] it comes to our dispersal around the world, forests had their role to play, next to savannahs and coastal routes: “our species was not a one-trick pony and was, quite literally, everywhere by the close of […]

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By: Book review – The Empty Sea: The Future of the Blue Economy | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:51:03 +0000

[…] of fishing, Perissi & Bardi’s narrative largely agrees with that of Brian Fagan’s Fishing of it being a subsistence activity until the rise of civilizations allowed it to become a trade. […]

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By: Book review – The Smart Neanderthal: Cave Art, Bird Catching & the Cognitive Revolution | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:59:01 +0000

[…] birds to the south to mingle with resident Mediterranean birds that stayed put. Even fishing, argued to be a driving force in human expansion, is no longer the exclusive domain of Homo sapiens. Finlayson has excavated remains of shellfish, […]

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By: Book review – Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 17 Aug 2020 14:29:49 +0000

[…] three sections of the book contained much that was new to me. Archaeologists argue that humans, in pursuit of seafood, stuck to coastlines as they migrated around the planet, and Kassinger highlights that it might […]

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By: Book review – Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:52:19 +0000

[…] pursuit of seafood, stuck to coastlines as they migrated around the planet (see also my review of Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization), and Kassinger highlights that it might very well have been the nutrition found in algae that […]

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By: Book review – The Smart Neanderthal: Cave Art, Bird Catching & the Cognitive Revolution | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:48:37 +0000

[…] that stayed put. Even fishing, argued to be a driving force in human expansion (see my review of Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization), is no longer the exclusive domain of Homo sapiens. Finlayson has excavated remains of shellfish, […]

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By: Book review – The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:19:48 +0000

[…] narratives. Obviously, fishing has always been an important activity (see also my review of Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization), as have other subsistence activities such as collecting of bird’s eggs and feathers, […]

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By: Book review – Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:31:37 +0000

[…] Revolution and fish populations have been collapsing since the 1880s (see also my review of Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization), it was post-World War II that the global industrial fisheries complex arose and fishing went into […]

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By: Book review – Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 12:45:33 +0000

[…] Pacific, and trek over the Bering Land Bridge to colonise North and South America (see my review of Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization). Rainforests would only have been colonised during the Holocene, from 10,000 years ago onwards. […]

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