Dimitra Mylona has received her Ph.D. from the University of Southampton in 2007 and is now a researcher at the Institute of Aegean Prehistory, Study Center for East Crete, Greece. She specializes in zooarchaeology and all aspects of human-animals relationships in antiquity. Fishing and maritime communities of the past are areas of particular interest in her work. She has published Fish eating in Greece from the fifth century BC to the 5th century AD and co-edited The Bountiful Sea: fish processing and consumption in Mediterranean antiquity.