A Fishy Situation - Animals 12

What this episode covers

Alex and Simona attempt to make it through an entire episode of our most hated type of bone: fish bones. Listen as they talk about the difficulties of dealing with archaeological fish and why they are actually quite important! Oh, and lots of complaining. Ugh...fish bones. BibliographyKillgrove, K. (2019) Vat of Ancient Fish Sauce May Confirm Date that Pompeii Was Destroyed. Forbes. [https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2019/06/03/vat-of-ancient-fish-sauce-may-confirm-date-that-pompeii-was-destroyed/]Luff, R. (1984) Animal Remains in ArchaeologyGreat Britain: Shire ArchaeologyRackham, J. (1994) Interpreting the Past: Animal BonesRyder, M. L. (1968) Animal bones in archaeologyGreat Britain: Blackwell Scientific PublicationsWilkes, E. (2018) Lamprey teeth identified for the first time in London's archaeological record. Phys.org. [https://phys.org/news/2018-10-lamprey-teeth-london-archaeological.html]Archaeological Fish Resource from the University of Nottingham [http://fishbone.nottingham.ac.uk/]The North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation (NABO) Fish Identification Manual [https://www.nabohome.org/products/manuals/fishbone/]Swandro-Orkney Coastal Archaeology Trust [https://www.swandro.co.uk/]ContactAlex FitzpatrickTwitter: @archaeologyfitz [http://www.twitter.com/archaeologyfitz]Simona FalangaTwitter: @CrazyBoneLady [http://www.twitter.com/crazybonelady]Music"Coconut - (dyalla remix)"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY