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.

Bibliography

Killgrove, K. (2019) Vat of Ancient Fish Sauce May Confirm Date that Pompeii Was Destroyed. Forbes.
Luff, R. (1984) Animal Remains in Archaeology
Great Britain: Shire Archaeology
Rackham, J. (1994) Interpreting the Past: Animal Bones
Ryder, M. L. (1968) Animal bones in archaeology
Great Britain: Blackwell Scientific Publications
Wilkes, E. (2018) Lamprey teeth identified for the first time in London's archaeological record. Phys.org.
Archaeological Fish Resource from the University of Nottingham
The North Atlantic Biocultural Organisation (NABO) Fish Identification Manual
Swandro-Orkney Coastal Archaeology Trust

Contact

Alex Fitzpatrick
- Twitter: @archaeologyfitz
Simona Falanga
- Twitter: @CrazyBoneLady
Music
- "Coconut - (dyalla remix)"
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UiKoouqaY