The book summarizes the knowledge on fishing, conservation and consumption as food and medicament of tuna and related species in antiquity. On the basis of literary, epigraphic and archaeological sources (fish taxonomy, installations for fishing and fish processing, alignments of anchors on the seabed, inscriptions on amphorae, bone remains) we reconstruct methods and techniques of fishing and tuna preserves, from aimation to slices in salt. Depending on the size of the prey, tuna fishing was carried out in ancient times by encircling or anchored and moored nets; which, examined by the method of ethno-archaeological comparison, correspond to the different types of modern traditional tonnara. The latter has therefore passed through the mediations of the Byzantine and Arab cultures, but its true origins are in antiquity, probably already in the Phoenician, but certainly in the Greco-Roman world.
Il libro riassume le conoscenze sulla pesca, la conservazione e il consumo alimentare e medicale del tonno e delle specie affini nell’antichità. Sulla base delle fonti letterarie, epigrafiche e archeologiche (tassonomia dei pesci, installazioni per la pesca e la lavorazione del pesce, allineamenti di ancore sul fondo marino, iscrizioni su anfore, resti ossei) si ricostruiscono metodi e tecniche della pesca e della lavorazione del tonno per le conserve, dall’aimation ai tranci sotto sale. In base alle dimensioni delle prede, la pesca dei tonnidi era condotta nell’antichità con la pesca a circuizione, oppure con tonnare ancorate e ormeggiate; le quali, esaminate con il metodo del confronto etno-archeologico, corrispondono ai diversi tipi di tonnara tradizionale moderna. Quest'ultima è dunque passata attraverso le mediazioni delle culture bizantina e araba, ma le sue vere origini sono nell'antichità, probabilmente già in ambito fenicio, ma sicuramente nel mondo greco-romano.
Thynnos. Archeologia della tonnara mediterranea
enrico felici
2018-01-01
Abstract
The book summarizes the knowledge on fishing, conservation and consumption as food and medicament of tuna and related species in antiquity. On the basis of literary, epigraphic and archaeological sources (fish taxonomy, installations for fishing and fish processing, alignments of anchors on the seabed, inscriptions on amphorae, bone remains) we reconstruct methods and techniques of fishing and tuna preserves, from aimation to slices in salt. Depending on the size of the prey, tuna fishing was carried out in ancient times by encircling or anchored and moored nets; which, examined by the method of ethno-archaeological comparison, correspond to the different types of modern traditional tonnara. The latter has therefore passed through the mediations of the Byzantine and Arab cultures, but its true origins are in antiquity, probably already in the Phoenician, but certainly in the Greco-Roman world.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.