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Fishing Was Power: 3,200-Year-Old Greek Art Reveals Elite Status of Bronze Age Fishermen
For a long time, fishing in the Mycenaean world was treated as a peripheral activity—something practical, necessary, yet ultimately overshadowed by agriculture, animal husbandry, and the tightly controlled economies of palace centers. The absence of clear references in Linear B records seemed to reinforce that assumption, placing fishing firmly in the background of Bronze Age…