Food and Drink in Archaeology 3
Subtitle: University of Nottingham postgraduate conference 2009
By: edited by Dave Collard, Jim Morris & Elisa Perego
Contributors: Collard, David; Morris, James (Zooarchaeologist); Perego, Elisa; University of Nottingham. Department of Archaeology
Publisher: Prospect Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Totnes, Devon [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9781903018781
Subjects: Feeding Behavior; Animal remains (Archaeology); Methods; Nutritional anthropology; Social aspects; Food habits; Diet; Food; Ancient History; Congresses; Drinking customs; Plant remains (Archaeology); Archaeology; History
Other titles: Food & Drink in Archaeology 3; University of Nottingham postgraduate conference 2009
Description: This is the third volume of a series from the Department of Archaeology at Nottingham University presenting work by postgraduates and early-career researchers from that university and elsewhere in the world. The essays reflect that while the importance of nutrition for survival has long been recognized, increasing emphasis is now being put on the cultural significance of the production, distribution and consumption of foodstuffs throughout all archaeological periods. Changes in archaeological methods are also demonstrated by the authors in their widespread reliance on zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical evidence.

There are twelve full-length papers and four shorter contributions discussing topics as varied as pyschoactive consumption in Cypriote Bronze Age mortuary ritual; elite ideology and feasting practices in Early Iron Age Greece; intoxicating drinks in ancient Indian art, literature and archaeology; sixteenth-century polemics about cold-drinking; the deceased as metaphorical food in Iron Age Veneto; food diversity in Mesolithic Scotland; a singular Late Bronze Age animal sacrifice event; ritualized feasting-goods from Norwegian graves dating from the first to the fifth centuries AD; animals in the household: not just a foodstuff; feasting and the state in Uruk Mesopotamia. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Selected proceedings of the third Food and Drink in Archaeology conference, held Apr. 17-18, 2009, at the University of Nottingham.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Cemetery, ceramics, and space : food consumption and ritual at the early Bronze Age Tholos Cemetery of Moni Odigitria, south central Greece / Tim Campbell-Green and Flora Michelaki; title: Drinking with the dead : psychoactive consumption in Cypriote Bronze Age mortuary ritual / Dave Collard; title: Symbols of the feasts : élite ideology and feasting practices in early Iron Age Greece / Rachel Fox; title: Intoxicating drinks and drunkards in ancient Indian art, literature and archaeology / Nitin Hadap and Shilpa Hadap; title: A new Renaissance medical controversy : sixteenth-century polemics about cold-drinking / Justo Hernández; title: Living and eating in coastal Brazil during prehistory / Mercedes Okumura and Sabine Eggers; title: Between sacrifice and consumption : the deceased as metaphorical food in Iron Age Veneto / Elisa Perego; title: A different kettle of fish : food diversity in Mesolithic Scotland / Catriona Pickard and Clive Bonsall; title: The recognition and interpretation of a singular late Bronze Age animal sacrifice event at Kilise Tepe, Turkey / Peter Popkin; title: Triple cups and bird-shaped pottery : ritualized feasting -goods from Norwegian graves dating from the first to the fifth centuries AD / Christian Rødsrud; title: Animals in the household : not just a foodstuff / Aixa Vidal and Ruth Maicas; title: Feasting and the state in Uruk Mesopotamia / Jessica Whalen; title: Shorter contributions. Cleaning grain and making beer : analysis of a third- to fourth-century AD archaeobotanical assemblage from Bottisham, Cambridge / Kate Parks ; The fauna of the Neolithic lakeside settlement of Dispilio, Greek Macedonia / Eleni Samartzidou ; Eating, processing and storing food in arid Andean highlands / Aixa Vidal ; Prehistoric spoons : their representation in time and space / Aixa Vidal and M. Soledad Mallía.