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SUBMITTER: Olafsdottir GA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5659679 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ólafsdóttir Guðbjörg Ásta GÁ Pétursdóttir Gróa G Bárðarson Hlynur H Edvardsson Ragnar R
PloS one 20171027 10
Archaeological excavations of historical fishing sites across the North Atlantic have recovered high quantities of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) bones. In the current study we use Atlantic cod otoliths from archaeological excavations of a historical fishing sites in north-west Iceland, dated to AD 970 -AD 1910 to examine historical growth trajectories of cod. No large scale growth variations or shifts in growth patterns were observed in the current chronologies, supporting the stability of histori ...[more]