The Inland Seas (eBook)

Towards an Ecohistory of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea

Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen, Ruthy Gertwagen (Herausgeber)

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2016
419 Seiten
Franz Steiner Verlag
978-3-515-11443-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The shores of the Mediterranean-Black Sea basin were home to some of the earliest urban communities and some of the earliest literate cultures. Their complex history and rich archaeological heritage have been studied by generations of scholars, to a degree of detail comparable to no other macro-region of our planet.

Its waters, too, have been the object of intense and systematic investigation, motivated not only by scientific curiosity but also by increasing concern for the well-being of their marine life. Yet until recently, there have been few attempts at integrating the results of different scientific approaches in order to write the ecohistory of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

In this volume, eighteen scholars from eleven different countries and representing a wide range of scientific disciplines address the question of how humans have interacted with the Mediterranean-Black Sea ecosystem from the dawn of prehistory until the twentieth century; how they have exploited its resources; what consequences this has had for life in the sea - and what, based on past experience, the future may hold in store.

Inhalt

Contents 8
Zum Geleit 6
Illustrations 10
Abbreviations 14
Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen and Ruthy Gertwagen: Introduction 16
Arturo Morales-Muñiz and Eufrasia Roselló-Izquierdo:Fishing in Mediterranean prehistory: an archaeo-ichthyological overview 24
Dimitra Mylona:Fish and seafood consumption in the Aegean: variations on a theme 58
Christophe Morhange, Nick Marriner and Nicolas Carayon:The eco-history of ancient Mediterranean harbours 86
Ephraim Lytle:Status beyond law: ownership, access and the ancient Mediterranean 108
Carmen Alfaro Giner:Purple in the ancient Mediterranean world: social demand and the exploitationof marine resources 138
Robert I. Curtis:Ancient processed fish products 160
Darío Bernal-Casasola:Garum in context: new times, same topics in the post-Ponsichian era 188
Benedict J. Lowe:The trade in fish sauce and related products in the western Mediterranean 216
Emmanuel Botte:Fish, craftsmen and trade in ancient Italy and Sicily 238
Enrique García Vargas:Littoral landscapes and embedded economies: tuna fisheriesas biocultural systems 256
Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen:Ancient harvesting of marine resources from the Black Sea 288
Constantin Ardeleanu:Fishing in the Lower Danube and its floodplain from the earliest timesto the twentieth century 310
Ruthy Gertwagen:Towards a Maritime Eco-history of the Byzantine andMedieval Eastern Mediterranean 342
Sabine Florence Fabijanec:Fishing and the fish trade on the Dalmatian coast in the late Middle Ages 370
Ferdinando Boero:Mediterranean Scenarios 388
Index of Persons 400
Index of Places 402
Index of Sources 410
Index of Species 415
Index of Subjects 418

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.11.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Geographica historica
• Zusatzinfo: 59 schw.-w. u. 28 farb. Abb., 17 schw.-w. Tab.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: archaeology • Black Sea • Ecology • Fishing • Mediterranean
• ISBN-10: 3-515-11443-2 / 3515114432
• ISBN-13: 978-3-515-11443-1 / 9783515114431