U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Screening for Breast Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. Ann Intern Med 2009; 151:716–726. Description: Update of the 2002 U.S. Preventive Services Task Fo...

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<jats:p>Odisha’s economy is predominantly agriculture driven. Exports from the mining industries remained a significant source of foreign exchange. However, over a period, aquaculture exports have also emerged as a lucrative possibility. It is a perfectly suitable secto...

International audience; In the first half of the nineteenth century, industrialization increased the demand for sponges extracted by the sponge fishermen of the Dodecanese Archipelago in the Aegean Sea. This had widespread repercussions, leading to increasing numbers of...

International audience; The study of the fish bones from the Neolithic shell midden of Suwayh 1, excavated in the 2000s, identified a total of 1060 identifiable fish bones, from 23 families, 33 genera and 28 different species. Radiocarbon dating demonstrates that the si...

Longtemps pensés comme des peuples repliés sur eux‑mêmes, les Aborigènes du nord de l’Australie ont entretenu pendant plus de deux siècles des relations commerciales avec des équipages de pêche venus de Makassar, dans l’actuelle province indonésienne de Sulawesi. Les ch...

Introduction The economic and productive activities of Roman Cyrenaica have received little attention in scholarship. Most of the information about manufactures and production is very restricted. Olive and wine presses, well known from other parts of North Africa, have ...

Introduction The site of Tróia is located in the southwestern coast of Portugal on a sandy peninsula that separates the estuary of the Sado River from the Atlantic Ocean (fig. 1 and 2). In Roman times this sand spit was probably still a line of islands and the Roman set...

Introduction Fish was a staple in the Roman diet. According to Curtis trade in preserved fish, particularly salted, was «a brisk business for many inhabitants of the Mediterranean provinces». Modern research is revealing a growing body of evidence for large-scale fish-s...