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Eating well on Adriatic palaeoshore – Marine and terrestrial molluscs as evidence of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene cuisine in Vlakno Cave, Dugi otok, Croatia

Pleistocene-Holocene transition is marked by major climate and environmental changes which caused deglaciation and consequently a rise in sea levels, changes in distribution of fauna and flora and extinction of certain animal species. The Great Adriatic Plain was flooded and today’s islands emerged (Benjamin et al. 2017 ; Surić, Juračić 2010 ; Šegota, Filipčić 1991). With environmental and climate changes, subsistence strategies changed as well. Previously neglected food sources, such as molluscs, were exploited more frequently. The goal of this paper is to discuss the Late Upper Palaeolithic and Early Mesolithic dietary changes and subsistence strategies. The paleodietary significance of terrestrial and marine molluscs in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene cuisine is based on the preliminary study of thermally altered mollusc assemblage from Vlakno Cave (island of Dugi Otok, Croatia).

marine molluscs ; terrestrial molluscs ; diet ; subsistence strategies ; Vlakno Cave ; Pleistocene-Holocene transition ; eastern Adriatic coast ; Croatia

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