Archaeologica.org

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 182945.htm

ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2012) — Skeletal remains in an island cave in Favignana, Italy, reveal that modern humans first settled in Sicily around the time of the last ice age and despite living on Mediterranean islands, ate little seafood. The research is published November 28 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Marcello Mannino and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany.

"and despite living on Mediterranean islands, ate little seafood"

If this was at th end of the ice age, how much sea food would ther be in a Mediterranean made up of melt water?

It would be pretty cold water and be isloated from the warmer waters.

kbs2244 wrote:"and despite living on Mediterranean islands, ate little seafood"

If this was at the end of the ice age, how much sea food would there be in a Mediterranean made up of melt water?

It would be pretty cold water and be isolated from the warmer waters.

The relationship of of sea water temperature and fish species variety and population is kind of interesting.

"Ask people where in the ocean the largest number of fish are concentrated, and most imagine the vivid, bustling coral reef. But consider the locations of the major fisheries of the world, which depend on netting large quantities of fish in each tow (cooler waters). In the temperate and cold seas there tends to be relatively few species of animals, but many individuals within a species. In tropical waters, though the variety of life is staggering, there are far fewer individuals of each species."
http://www.gma.org/surfing/ocean/comparing.html

Of course even if it was the optimal temperature for ocean dwelling fish what would the salinity be like. It could also have absolutely nothing to do with the fish. It could very well have been a cultural factor.(shrug)
I got a kick out of the differences of cold and warm water fish being equated to "City fish" vs. "Country fish"

Country Joe and the Fish?

kbs2244 wrote:Country Joe and the Fish?

wow..blast from the past