[SunkenCiv]

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan Paperback

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[Winstons Julia]

I’ll bet they find a fossil that proves we are descended from fish. A little tiny guppy with opposable little thumbs.

[SunkenCiv]

Viewpoint: Ghosts of oceans past and future by Ian Poiner and Poul Holm

[jeffc]

Gee, why couldn’t it have been because people found sea fish tasty?

[JoeProBono]

[centurion316]

I suspect that this report is nonsense. Man has been catching all manner of fish, shellfish, and other foods from the sea for tens, thousands, and probably hundreds of thousands of years. Some have opined that homo sapiens lack of body hair was an adaptation from diving for seafood in coastal waters. That would place the behavior at millions of years BP. Certainly Mediterranean cultures have had ship and fishing technologies for many thousands of years before 1000 AD.

This sounds like a conclusion in search of evidence. I think that some other explanation is in order.

[jimtorr]

I think the main problem here is a poorly written book, report, or article.

While medieval fishermen may have begun doing more sea fishing, they did not suddenly begin fishing at sea around 1000 AD.