New research from the University of Cambridge sheds light on the use of seal products across Europe during the middle ages, ...

Hunting and fishing yield the animal flesh, skin, and bone that ... they dance." Seal hunting in Glacier Bay in 1899. Click image for a larger view. In Alaska today, subsistence continues to ...

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

The progressive disappearance of seal skin use in Cistercian bindings coincides with climatic and economic transformations. By the late 13th century, the cooling of the North Atlantic—the onset of the ...

This book is among nearly 100 found in France by researchers at the University of Cambridge to be bound with seal skin. The books belong to a French monastery from the 12th century. (Matthew Collins) ...