Harvesting the Sea provides the first systematic treatment of the exploitation of various
marine resources, such as large-scale fishing, fish salting, salt and purple-dye production …

The zooarchaeology of complex societies provides insights into the interrelated social and
economic relationships that people and animals created. I present a synthesis of …

The medieval period in Europe was a time of unprecedented social complexity that affected
human diet. The diets of certain subgroups—for example, children, women, and the poor …

The evolution of human animal relationships in central England is reviewed. In the
Mesolithic, the main focus was on the hunting of large game. The earliest phase of a …

Presented here is a zooarchaeological review of assemblages from 323 sites within
southern England. Data are summarised for each of the major periods (Saxon, medieval and …

The Story of Garum recounts the convoluted journey of that notorious Roman fish sauce,
known as garum, from a smelly Greek fish paste to an expensive luxury at the heart of …

Fish are a large, highly diverse, and anthropologically important group of vertebrates.
However, fish bones are underrepresented in the archaeological literature because they are …

The largest commercial fishery in medieval Europe developed in the western Baltic. The aim
of this paper is to assess traded and landed amounts of the main target species, Atlantic …

The available data are reviewed on ichthyofaunas from prehistoric sites along the Nile in
Egypt and Sudanese Nubia. Former fishing practices are reconstructed using information …

During the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, the religious directives involving dietary
requirements, and the general human subsistence base were transformed. These …