Eating well on Adriatic palaeoshore - marine molluscs as evidence of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene cuisine in Vlakno cave, Dugi island, Croatia

Environmental changes at the end of the Pleistocene and the beginning of Holocene, such as change in climate, faunal and floral communities, sea level and so on had impact on human behavior and use of resources. These are also reflected in diet. Here we present the use of marine mollusks in diet of Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic inhabitants of Vlakno cave, Dugi Otok, Croatia. Differences in treatment of mollusks (e.g. traces of burning, abundance) and differences in species collected are compared between layers of inhabitation at the site.