Food in antiquity
Subtitle: a survey of the diet of early peoples
By: Don and Patricia Brothwell.
Contributors: Brothwell, Patricia.
Edition: Expanded ed.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Food -- History.; Food habits -- History.
Description: A world-wide survey of the eating and drinking habits of early peoples, Don and Patricia Brothwell's Food in Antiquity covers a broad geographical range, from the early populations of Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Americas to the more familiar Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek, and Roman worlds. From Meat, insects, vegetables, and fruits to cooking oils and beverages, each source of sustenance is described in terms of who consumed it, how it was prepared, and how it spread from its region of origin.

This paperback edition includes a new afterword in which Don Brothwell offers a "progress report" on recent discoveries and developments in the archaeology of food.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-232) and index.
Originally published: New York : Praeger, 1969, in series: Ancient peoples and places.