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The Big Fish Come to Land: An Archaeologist Explores the History of Fishing

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Posted: January 2, 2018

Lecture date: January 31, 2018. Brian Fagan details the million year-old history of fishing, including how fishing contributed to the first settlement of the Americas.

Fagan is the author of Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization, Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind, and Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Ocean.

Video Posted: January 2, 2018

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