Raphael Patai discusses ancient Jewish seafaring in antiquity.
Michael D. Coe, “Gift of the River: Ecology of the San Lorenzo Olmec,” in The Olmec and Their Neighbors: Essays in Memory of Matthew W. Stirling, ed. Elizabeth P. Benson (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, 1981), 17
THE ANIMAL WORLD
The Olmec of the San Lorenzo Phase were clearly not interested in the hunting of game mammals, and in this they were similar to the super-sedentary Formative villagers of the Pacific Coast of Guatemala. In her analysis of faunal material from the San Lorenzo Phase, Wing (this volume) has shown that the Olmec mainly relied for their animal protein on fish, turtles, and dogs, although she may have underplayed the role of cannibalism; in fact, human beings as a source of animal protein were second onto to snook among the warlike San Lorenzo Olmec.