In stone-age archaeology, fish are often underestimated as important food source because fishbonesare often lost during excavations due to inappropriate methodology or poor preservation conditions. To understand fisheries at archaeological sites, it is critically important to understand the fish in relation to the ecology and the fishing sites. The aim of the thesis was to understand perch and pikefishing at the Pitted Ware site at Korsnäs in eastern central Sweden. An in-depth study of the Korsnäs fishbone assemblage was performed to calculate the perch and pike from regression formulas based on available reference data. The main results indicated specific size classes of perch between 27 – 40cm while the pike were mostly common between 50 – 75cm. Studies of perch scales indicated that they were fished during summer and annual ring observations on perch vertebrae showed several 4 –year old individuals, a common age for spawning perch. The results of the fishbone analysis have shown their potential to reconstruct fishing strategies, ecological conditions and the aspects of fish, fishermen and fishing in more detail. The size trend of the fishes indicates several factors regarding the fishermen of the Pitted Ware Culture and their specific knowledge of fish. The results suggests that various fishing strategies were used for different kinds of fish at the Korsnäs site. The size distributions of fish reflects the underlying planning and managements for optimized fisheries. These people were not fishermen, they were specialized fishermen.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:su-197444 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Vajking, Erik |
| Publisher | Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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