Introduction / Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen -- Fish as a source of food in antiquity / John Wilkins -- Sources for production and trade of Greek and Roman processed fish / Robert I. Curtis -- The ...

In a study recently published in the journal Antiquity, researchers successfully sequenced DNA from fish remains found in a Roman-era fish-salting vat at a cetaria in northwest Spain. The discovery ...

Archaeologists have identified the fish used to make ‘garum,’ Rome’s favorite sauce, not by sight but by sequencing ancient DNA from fragmented bones found in a fish-salting vat in northwestern Spain.

A new study reveals that the sensitivity of teeth, which makes them zing in a dentist's chair or ache after biting into something cold, can be traced back to the exoskeletons of ancient, armored fish.

Teeth first evolved as sensory organs, not for chewing, according to a new analysis of animal fossils. The first tooth-like structures seem to have been sensitive nodules on the skin of early fish ...

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