Human and Aquatic Beings: Interactions in and beyond the Eastern Mediterranean (3rd—1st Millennia BCE)

Christina Tsouparopoulou, Assistant Professor in Mesopotamian Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, UKSW Warsaw and Honorary Fellow, Department of Archaeology, Durham University. Main research interests: Bronze Age Mesopotamia and Eastern Mediterranean, religion, popular material culture, text and object, human-animal relations, digital humanities.Lærke Recht, Professor of Early Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology, Department of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Institute of Classics, University of Graz and International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Studies Research Fellow; Main research interests: Bronze Age Aegean, Cyprus and Near East, human-animal relations, iconography, religion, digital archaeology.

• Chapter 1. Creatures of the water and their impact on human lives (Recht and Tsouparopoulou).- Chapter 2. Isotopes and fish bones in the Bronze Age Aegean: Expanding our understanding of aquatic diets (Mylona and Allshouse).- Chapter 3. Fishing gear and fish remains from Vergina: A case of inland fishing in Macedonia (Stamatopoulou).- Chapter 4. The marine aspect of the Temple Repositories in the Palace of Knossos (Eleftheriou, et al).- Chapter 5. “ἐς πόντον ἱχθυόεντα”: Marine creatures in Aegean and Cypriot pictorial pottery at the end of the Late Bronze Age (Lekka).- Chapter 6. Underrepresented riches from the sea (Yamasaki).- Chapter 7. Exploring fishing in Cyprus from the Neolithic to the Early Christian periods (Michael).- Chapter 8. Cockles and carps: Human-aquatic being relations in the mid to late third millennium BCE tombs of Ur (Recht and Tsouparopoulou).- Chapter 9. Clamour from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf: Revised dating and distribution patterns of engraved Tridacna squamosa (Schlegel).- Chapter 10. Correlations between stones and iconography: Fish-cloaked figures in ancient Mesopotamia (Ftaimi).- Chapter 11. Shells in jewellery from Middle Kingdom Egypt (Patrevita).- Chapter 12. Shell discs from first millennium BCE Iran (Naseri et al).- Chapter 13. Concluding remarks: Creatures of the water (Greenfield).