The study of fishing tackle is an innovative area of research which is improving our understanding of one of the most important past economic activities: fishing. El instrumental de pesca en el Fretum Gaditanum (siglos V a.C. - VI d.C.) analyses fishing tackle in the region known as Fretum Gaditanum (the Strait of Gibraltar in modern times), where over a thousand pieces of evidence have been inventoried. In these pages, the reader will find the typo-chronological classification of the material, which follows a diachronic discourse spanning the Phoenician-Punic period and Late Antiquity; special emphasis will be laid on the morphological-typological changes undergone by these artefacts and technological change over time. In this way, a comprehensive picture of the fishing arts practised in the environment of Gades during Antiquity will be drawn, and the corpus will be compared with those found in other Atlantic and Mediterranean regions.
