Richards, M. P. and Schulting, R. J. (2006). Touch not the fish: the Mesolithic--Neolithic change of diet and its significance.. Antiquity 80 (308). Vol 80(308), pp. 444-458.

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Title:		 Touch not the fish: the Mesolithic--Neolithic change of diet and its significance.
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Subtitle:		 Against the grain? A response to Milner et al. (2004)
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Issue:		 Antiquity 80 (308)
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Series:		 Antiquity
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Volume:		 80 (308)
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Page Start/End:		 444 - 458
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Abstract:		 Exchange of views concerning the rapid and widespread change from a marine to terrestrial diet revealed by stable isotope analysis at the time of the transition from the Mesolithic to Neolithic culture. It has been argued that this could be a consequence of domestication, or as Julian Thomas (2003) proposed, of a kind of taboo (`Touch not the fish'). In a challenge, Nicky Milner and her colleagues (2004) questioned the reality of this nutritional revolution, contrasting the message of the bones and shells found on settlement sites, with the isotope measurements in the bones of people. Richards and Schulting reinforce the arguments in favour of the diet-revolution; with
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Author:		 Michael P Richards
Rick J Schulting
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Year of Publication:		 2006
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SETTLEMENT (Monument Type England)
Mesolithic To Neolithic (Auto Detected Temporal)
Shells (Auto Detected Subject)
Fish (Auto Detected Subject)
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Created Date:		 03 Oct 2006