Osservazioni sulla pesca in età preistorica. Attrezzature, catture e preparazioni

The poor conservation of the fish in prehistoric contexts and the difficulties of identification and collection of the remains greatly limit the possibility to trace a satisfactory drawing of alimentary use of marine and freshwater fish. Very fragmentary is the documentation of the instruments, of which remain only a few non-perishable parts, and then the activities that were put in place for the procurement of fish. Nevertheless, there is information to say that fishing practices have been, since the end of the Pleistocene, an important part of the economies of the groups settled in river or lakes basins, or along the sea coast and we can reconstruct, in a largely hypothetical way, a part of fish capture methods.