Published in 2018 in Revue Archéologique de l’Ouest
This article brings together the work of 14 people involved in archaeological research (myself included) for a first look at the state of the research on fishing in Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman Period on the western coast of France.
Full article is available here (in french)
The archaeology of fishing suffers from a lack of visibility in the west of France, in spite of the potential for the study of the exploitation of marine and costal resources in the Channel and on the Atlantic Coast. This paper brings together data that was until now dispersed in publications, site reports, and short papers and uses unpublished objects that relate to features, zooarchaeology and fishing equipment found in Normandy, Brittany and the Pays-de-la-Loire for the Metal Ages and the Roman period. The discussion is enhanced by its interdisciplinary character and covers subjects such as the evolution of techniques, the fishing choices made, the role of fishing in subsistence economies. This first overview finally shows that the archaeology of fishing constitutes an important research topic, which we hope to develop in the future.
Alizé Gabaude 