ANCIENT FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING IN THE BLACK SEA REGION - Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen

In 8°, bross. edit., 222 pp. ill.ni 

ANCIENT FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING IN THE BLACK SEA REGION. Proceedings of an interdisciplinary workshop on marine resources and trade in fish products in the Black Sea region in antiquity, University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, April 4-5, 2003.

Aarhus University Press, 2005

Contents
Illustrations and Tables 7
Introduction 13

Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen - Fish as a Source of Food in Antiquity 21
John Wilkins - Sources for Production and Trade of Greek and Roman Processed Fish 31
Robert I. Curtis - The Archaeological Evidence for Fish Processing in the Western Mediterranean 47
Athena Trakadas -  The Technology and Productivity of Ancient Sea Fishing 83
Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen - The Reliability of Fishing Statistics as a Source for Catches and Fish Stocks in Antiquity 97
Anne Lif Lund Jacobsen -  Fishery in the Life of the Nomadic Population of the Northern Black Sea Area in the Early Iron Age 105
Nadežda A. Gavriljuk - Fish and Money: Numismatic Evidence for Black Sea Fishing 115
Vladimir F. Stolba - The Archaeological Evidence for Fish Processing in the Black Sea Region 133

Jakob Munk Højte -  A Fishy Business. Transport Amphorae of the Black Sea Region as a Source for the Trade in Fish and Fish Products in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods 161
John Lund and Vincent Gabrielsen -  Size Matters: Estimating Trade of Wine, Oil and Fish-sauce from Amphorae in the First Century AD 171

Bo Ejstrud
Abbreviations 183
Bibliography 185
Contributors 205
Indices 207