Overview

Topics covered include: Psychoactive consumption in Cypriot Bronze Age mortuary ritual; food consumption and ritual at the Early Iron Age tholos cemetery of Moni Odigitria, south-east Greece; elite ideology and feasting practices in Early Iron Age Greece; intoxicating drinks and drunkards in ancient Indian art and literature; sixteenth-century polemics about cold-drinking; food in prehistoric coastal southern Brazil; the deceased as metaphorical food in Iron Age Veneto; food diversity in Mesolithic Scotland; ritualized feasting goods from Norwegian graves; feasting and the state in Uruk Mesopotamia; prehistoric spoons.

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Author:   Dave Collard ,  James Morris ,  Elisa Perego ,  Veronica Tamorri
Publisher:   Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Imprint:   Prospect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781903018781

ISBN 10:   1903018781
Pages:   149
Publication Date:   30 January 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Tim Campbell-Green and Flora Michelaki - Cemetery, ceramics and space: food consumption and ritual at the Early Bronze Age tholos cemetery of Moni Odiyitria, South Central Greece. Dave Collard - Drinking with the dead: psychoactive consumption in Cypriote Bronze Age mortuary ritual. Rachel Fox - Symbols of the feast: elite ideology and feasting practices in Early Iron Age Greece. Nitin Hadap and Shilpa Hadap - Intoxicating drinks and drunkards appearing in ancient Indian Art and Literature. Justo Hernandez - A new renaissance medical controversy: the sixteenth century polemics about cold-drinking. Anna Kieburg - Drinking in Roman taverns: an examination of water and wine storage and supply. Mercedes Okumura and Sabine Eggers - Living and eating in coastal southern Brazil during Prehistory: a review. Elisa Perego - Between sacrifice and consumption: the deceased as metaphorical food in Iron Age Veneto (Italy). Catriona Pickard - A different kettle of fish: food diversity in Mesolithic Scotland. Peter Popkin - The one sheep feast: a Late Bronze Age consumption event at Kilise Tepe, Turkey. Christian RA dsrud - Triple cups and bird-shaped pottery: ritualised feasting equipment from Norweigan graves. Veronica Tamorri - Htp di Nsw: the role of food offerings in Predynastics and early dynastic funerary rituals. Marijke Van der Veen - Food as embodied material culture: diversity and change in plant food consumption in Roman Britain. Aixa Vidal and Ruth Maicas - Animals in the kitchen: not just foodstuff. Peter Webb - Feeding the dead: an alternative interpretation for plough scores under Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows. Jessica Whalen - Feasting and the state in Uruk Mesopotamia. Shorter contributions: Eleni Samartzidou - The fauna of the Neolithi lakeside settlement of Dispillo (Greek Macedonia). Aixa Vidal - Prehistoric spoons: eating, drinking or holding. Colleen O'Hara - The cultural context of coarse wares in late medieval and early modern Ulster c. 1200-1650. Kate Nicholson - Cleaning grain and making beer: analysis of a 3rd to 4th century AD archaeobotanical assemblage from Bottisham, Cambridge.

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