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Karekin Deveciyan, supervisor of the Ottoman enai, Kaunos, Lesbos and Kos (Fig. 12) . Dalians
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fisheries in early 20th century, recorded fish types, are thought to have originated either from Africa or
fishing seasons, fishing behaviour, fishing tech- the eastern Aegean . Archaeologically invisible, we
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niques, and production rates from all over the Otto- consider dalians to be a potential fishing method in
man Empire and published this in Ottoman Turkish the prehistoric Aegean.
in 1915 (Fig. 9). The book was immediately trans- Although it is very difficult or even impossible to
lated into French, and much later a Turkish edition assign fish species to any specific fishing technique,
became available . Deveciyan’s listings of fish land- varying fishing techniques identified in pre-modern
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ings from the eastern Aegean dating to the early 20 societies may have entailed diverse age, gender, and
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century show the equipment used to capture different status groups. For instance, most shellfish gathering
species (Fig. 10). In the eastern Aegean, we learn requires little skill, time, or gear and can be practiced
that dalians, trammel nets, bagnets, liftnets, hook- by children, women, and men alike. Malinowski re-
and-line, pots, seines, and baskets were frequently ports that the collecting of spondylus shells by the
implemented to catch grey mullet, red mullet, pil- Trobriands, the raw material of the most valuable ex-
hard sardinec, sea bass, mackerel, sea bream, sepia, change item in Kula trade, was always a big ceremoni-
octopus, lobster, shrimp, hacke, chub mackerel, and al activity in which the entire community took part .
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bluefin tuna . What becomes notable here is the use By far the most frequently gathered shellfish in the
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of so-called dalians. Dalians, stable traps constructed Aegean were cockles and limpets . Cockles live in
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on wooden stakes, were mentioned in ancient liter- shallow bays and lagoons and can easily be gathered
ary sources and are well-known from the Greek and by hand. Limpets live on rocks at the wash-zone; one
roman eras (Fig 11) . Often watchtowers accompa- does not even need to go into water to gather them.
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ny dalian installations; these were also mentioned in Only shellfish collecting that necessitates deep diving
ancient literary sources, for example, from Klazom- would have been done by experienced divers.

75 MYLONA 2014, fig. 7.
76 POWELL 1996.
77 FrENCH 2006.
78 DEVECIYAN 2006, Fig. 6.
79 for details see MArZANO 2013.
80 BUrSA 2010.
81 MArZANO 2013; POWELL 1996, 108.

Fig. 11: İzmir-Karaburun’da günümüzde kullanım gösteren bir dalyan. Fig. 12: İzmir-Karaburun’da halen kul-
Fotoğraf: Ç. Çilingiroğlu lanım gösteren dalyan ve ahşap gözetleme
Fig. 11: A dalyan construction still used in Karaburun, İzmir. Image: kulesi. Fotoğraf: Ç. Çilingiroğlu
Ç. Çilingiroğlu Fig. 12: A dalyan with a watchtower still
used in Karaburun, Izmir. Image: Ç. Çilin-
giroğlu
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