Early Villages
Skara Brae on the west coast of the Orkney mainland, off Scotland, was a small Neolithic agricultural and fishing village with ten stone houses. It was occupied from about 3100 to 2500 BC, and is Europe's most complete Neolithic village. The ancient Lycian sunken village of Kaleköy in Turkey, dates from 400 BCE. Clovelly, a fishing hamlet north Devon coast of England, an early Saxon settlement, is listed in the Domesday Book. Kaunolu Village, a Hawaiian fishing village, is thought to date from about 1500 CE.
Recent archaeological excavations of earlier fishing settlements are occurring at some pace. A fishing village recently excavated in Khanh Hoa, Vietnam, is thought be about 3,500 years old. Excavations on the biblical fishing village Bethsaida, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee and birthplace of the apostles Peter, Philip and Andrew, have shown that Bethsaida was established in the tenth century BCE. A Tongan fishing village, recently excavated, appears to have been founded 2900 years ago. This makes it the oldest known settlement in Polynesia. Another recent excavation has been made of Walraversijde, a medieval fishing village on the coast of West Flanders in Holland.
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Hovden in Norway, has been fishing cod which migrate along the coast for over 1200 years.
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Portofino, founded in Roman times, is a picturesque fishing village on the north west Italian coast.
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Dunmore East in south east Ireland has been a busy fishing port for hundreds of years.
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Pittenweem is a small and secluded fishing village on the east coast of Scotland, founded on historic herring fisheries.
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Reconstructed smokehouse at the medieval fishing village of Walraversijde, ca. 1465
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