The editorial board of "Studii de Preistorie" reaches a long-planned milestone, achieves a long-pursued goal and, at the same time, fulfills a duty of honor by initiating the "Supplementum" series.

The series is opened by the first atlas of identification of fish remains from archeological sites ever to be published. The author of this atlas, Dr. Valentin Radu, is the only Romanian specialist working in the field of archeoichthyology, to whom we owe our better understanding of, and new perspectives on, the interactions of human communities with the aquatic environments over bygone millenia.

This atlas is meant to facilitate taxonomic identification of the fish remains discovered on archeological sites, and by that to broaden the scope of studies of prehistory. One of the lesser emphasized corollaries of this endeavor for modern archeological field studies is the necessity of careful and detailed sampling of remains of the aquatic fauna.