Une synthèse des données archéozoologiques sur le commerce de poissons dans la partie orientale de la Méditerranée, depuis le Chalcolithique jusqu 'au temps des croisades, est présentée. Cette revue est basée sur des données bibliographiques et sur des ensembles fauniques inédits, étudiés par les auteurs, provenant de 76 sites. Des restes de poissons provenant du Nil, de la Méditerranée et de la mer Rouge sont fréquemment rencontrés sur des sites archéologiques situés en dehors de la distribution naturelle des espèces et indiquent dès lors qu 'il s 'agit de denrées qui faisaient l 'objet de commerce ou d 'échange. Des indications sur le commerce de poissons d 'eau douce d'Anatolie sont également présentées. Les trouvailles ichtyofauniques sont discutées en fonction de la provenance des poissons et des régions vers lesquelles ils étaient exportés. En utilisant les données archéologiques, les indications des artefacts et les informations historiques disponibles, les changements diachroniques observés dans le commerce de poisson sont décrits, en tenant compte du contexte économique et politique de chacune des régions productrice et consommatrice.

This paper will assess the most recently available open access high-resolution optical satellite data (0.3 m-0.6 m) and its detection of buried ancient features versus ground based remote sensing tools. It also discusses the importance of CORONA satellite data to evaluate landscape changes over the past 50 years surrounding sites. The study concentrates on Egypt's Nile Delta, which is threatened by rising sea and water tables and urbanization. Many ancient coastal sites will be lost in the next few decades, thus this paper emphasizes the need to map them before they disappear. It shows that high resolution satellites can sometimes provide the same general picture on ancient sites in the Egyptian Nile Delta as ground based remote sensing, with relatively sandier sedimentary and degrading tell environments, during periods of rainfall, and higher groundwater conditions. Research results also suggest potential solutions for rapid mapping of threatened Delta sites, and urge a collaborative global effort to maps them before they disappear.

The objectives of the University of Toronto expedition to South Sinai include tracing pharaonic routes to the turquoise and copper mining region, investigating pharaonic and indigenous camps, mines, and their material culture assemblages in this area, and assessing Egypto-Sinaitic cross-cultural relations. The 2000-01 reconnaissance work and 2002 excavations focused on Site 346, a New Kingdom anchorage and copper smelting camp beside the Red Sea, located at the northern end of el-Markha Plain and to the west of the mining region around Serabit el-Khadim. Two contemporary small pottery scatters (Sites 346a-b) and a circular limestone structure (Site 345) were also investigated. The project has incorporated satellite image interpretation to isolate vegetation signatures and associated water sources within the arid el-Markha Plain, thereby detecting potential archaeological sites for ground reconnaissance work. Project objectives and historical context (Gregory Mumford) EL-MARKHA Plain is a key coastal area which provided passage, along several wadi systems through the South Sinai mountains, to the eastern turquoise and copper mining region (fig. 1). During the pharaonic period expeditions reached el-Markha Plain either via the Red Sea or an overland route from the Wadi Tumilat and the southern Isthmus of Suez. The South Sinai Survey and Excavation Project is a long-term project with broad research objectives concerning the pharaonic exploitation of, and relations with, South Sinai. These objectives include (1) tracing the overland and maritime routes to South Sinai, (2) mapping and excavating selected examples of different site types (e.g. forts, way-stations, anchorages, rest-stops, mines, mining camps, and ancient bedouin camps), (3) investigating and publishing neglected aspects of pharaonic sites (such as mines, mining camps, utilitarian artifacts, and studying cross-cultural relations), (4) assessing material cultural interactions between transient Egyptian expeditions and the indigenous, semi-nomadic pastoralists, and (5) locating archaeological sites through a combination of satellite image interpretation, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and foot survey work. This report concentrates mainly on the results of the 2000-01 reconnaissance, but incorporates some preliminary results from the 2002 excavations."

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