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• Introduction
• Visit
• Preface
• Content
  1. Environment
     1. The geological context
     2. The Aisne valley
     3. Flora
     4. Fauna
     5. The first settlements
  2. The Gallic village
     1. The story of a Remi village
     2. The birth of the village
     3. Establishing the village
     4. Village life
  3. Daily life
     1. Agriculture and subsistence
     2. Men and animals
     3. Fishing
     4. Meat in the diet
     5. The table and crockery
     6. Craftsmanship
     7. Trade
  4. The Necropolises
     1. Distribution of the necropolises
     2. Funerary rituals
     3. Funeral plots
     4. The funerary population
     5. Funerary buildings
     6. Food for the dead
     7. Tombs of the sacrificers?
     8. A hierarchy of tombs
  5. Sacred sites
     1. Large sacred sites
     2. The environs of the village in the 1^st century BC.
     3. Another Gallic village: Avançon
     4. Acy-Romance and Romanisation
  6. Archaeological research
     1. 20 years of archaeological research
     2. Methodology
     3. Archeozoology
     4. Experimental archaeology
     5. Acy-Romance seen from the air
     6. Reconstruction and archaeology
     7. Acy-Romance at the Museum of the Ardennes
• Appendices
  1. Resources
  2. Site map
  3. Chronology
  4. Accessibility policy
  5. Credits
• Versions
  1. Version française
  2. Version Flash

Fishing

The inhabitants of the Gallic village of Acy-Romance caught a lot of fish. The remains of more than 4500 have been found in kitchen waste. Seven species have been recorded, among which chub and pike are the most abundant; the remains of a number of cyprinids (barbel, gudgeon, tench, chub...) are unidentified. All these fish are a good size, which implies they were caught singly (harpoon?), rather than being trapped (fixed or hoop nets).

The fishing season can be worked out by the growth rings on the vertebrae of the best preserved. They were caught during the winter, spring and especially in summer. Pike were mainly fished in winter and spring, while chub were caught in summer. Finding the remains of fish caught in different seasons indicates that some of them were conserved (salted, smoked?).

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