Fishing: how the sea fed civilization

Bountiful waters

Beginnings

Neanderthals and moderns

Shellfish eaters

Baltic and Danube after the ice

Rope-patterned fisherfolk

The great journey revisited

Fishers on the Pacific Northwest Coast

The myth of a Garden of Eden

The Calusa : shallows and sea grass

The great fish have come in

Rations for Pharaohs

Fishing the Middle Sea

Scaly flocks

The fish eaters

The Erythraean Sea

Carp and Khmer

Anchovies and civilization

Ants of the ocean

The beef of the sea

"Inexhaustible manna"

Depletion

More in the sea?

Glossary of fishing terms.