Reply to "Marine abundance and its prehistoric past in the Baltic".

Nat Commun · 2022 · PMC9123011 · PMID 35595731

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The Krabbesholm shell midden only has data from one layer within the Mesolithic period for comparison, and the Havnø shell midden exhibits a decreasing trend in age and size of oysters beginning in the Mesolithic period (and with only data for 3 shell midden layers in total across the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods).

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