ABSTRACT
Humans have depended upon the seas for many thousands of years. Remains of marine organisms found in human settlements along the Baltic Sea shorelines date back as far as the Mesolithic Era some 10000 years ago. These people’s reliance on seafood is evident not only in the large piles of shells and fishbones they discarded but also in the tools they left behind, such as barbed fishhooks and serrated harpoons. The ‘Maglemosians’, as these societies were called, were probably the first true maritime people.
