Rocky Shores: Exploitation in Chile and South Africa
It seems almost trite to introduce this book by saying that man has been exploiting the intertidal zone for food for a long time. Just how long nobody knows for sure but the prehistoric inhabitants of Terra Amata, on the Mediterranean coast near Nice, ate
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w. Roy Siegfried (Ed.)
Rocky Shores: Exploitation in Chile and South Africa With 39 Figures
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Prof. Dr. W. Roy Siegfried Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology University of Cape Town Rondebosch 7700 South Africa
ISBN-13:978-3-642-78285-5 e-ISBN-13 :978-3-642-78283-1 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-78283-1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Rocky shores: Exploitation in Chile and South Africa / W. Roy Siegfried (ed.). p. cm. - (Ecological studies: vol. 103) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN-13:978-3-642-78285-5 I. Seafood gathering - Economic aspects - Chile. 2. Seafood gathering - Economic aspects - South Africa. 3. Food supplyChile. 4. Food supply - South Africa. 5. Fishery management - Chile. 6. Fishery management - South Africa. I. Siegfried. W. R. II. Series: Ecological studies; v. 103. SH400.8.C5R63 1993 333.95'213'0983- dc20 93·26020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law.
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Preface
It seems almost trite to introduce this book by saying that man has
been exploiting the intertidal zone for food for a long time. Just how long nobody knows for sure but the prehistoric inhabitants of Terra Amata, on the Mediterranean coast near Nice, ate marine intertidal animals at least 300 000 years ago. Similar impressive evidence, going back to at least 100000 years, exists for prehistoric man's consumption of intertidal animals along the South African coast. However, early man's dependence on intertidal resources probably goes back much further in time. During the last 2 million or so years temperate Eurasia experienced some 20 glaciations interspersed by warm equable periods. Different modes of life were open to man in colonizing the northern temperate zone. One was to become a "big-game" hunter, specializing, for
