Hunting and Fishing in the Neolithic and Eneolithic

REVIEW BY KATHERINE V BOYLE This book looks at an often-overlooked aspect of European prehistory, more specifically the Neolithic/Eneolithic, but one that, fortunately, is gradually changing with work undertaken in recent years by scholars across Europe. The subject is the role in the local economy of hunting and fishing, subsistence strategies more commonly associated with the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic. As a compilation of information from a range of sites across a broadly defined region (southern Europe and Anatolia), Hunting and Fishing in the Neolithic and Eneolithic provides both zooarchaeologists and material-culture specialists with a useful source of information. However, th