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Title Social dimensions of food in the Prehistoric Balkans / edited by Maria Ivanova, Bogdan Athanassov, Vanya Petrova, Desislava Takorova and Philipp W. Stockhammer
Published Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 367 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Contents Introduction / Philipp W. Stockhammer, Bogdan Athanassov and Maria Ivanova; 1. 'Herd' mentality / László Bartosiewicz and Clive Bonsall; 2. Neolithic taboos in Anatolia and southeast Europe / Nerissa Russell; 3. Eating out: Food and social context in the Early Neolithic of Greece / Kostas Kotsakis; 4. Breath of change: Food and pottery in the course of the Neolithic in northern Greece / Dushka Urem-Kotsou
5. Carcasses, ceramics, and cooking at Makriyalos I: Towards an integrated approach to human diet and commensality in Late Neolithic northern Greece / Valasia Isaakidou and Paul Halstead; 6. Painted pottery and culinary practices: Use-alteration analysis of painted pottery from the site of Starčevo-Grad / Olga Bajčev; 7. Feasting during the Early Neolithic of the central Balkans: The fauna from Blagotin, Serbia / Haskel J. Greenfield and Tina L. Jongsma-Greenfield; 8. Of pits and bones: A ritual pit at the late Neolithic site of Sarnevo in Bulgarian Thrace / Krum Bacvarov and John Gorczyk
9. Foraging and food production strategies during the Early Neolithic in the Balkans-Carpathian area. The site of Bucova Pusta in Romanian Banat / Raiko Krauss, Bea De Cupere and Elena Marinova; 10. 'No quern, no food'? Milling technology and the spread of farming in southeast Europe / Maria Ivanova; 11. Prehistoric agricultural toolkits in diachronic perspective: A case study from Bulgaria / Maria Gurova; 12. Social dimensions of salt in the later prehistory of the eastern Balkans / Vassil Nikolov; 13. Salt in European prehistory: Social and economic considerations / Anthony Harding
14. Plant-based food at Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Drama, southeast Bulgaria: Continuity and innovations / Ralf Gleser and Elena Marinova;15. Food, status, and power: Animal production and consumption practices during the Carpathian Basin Bronze Age / Amy Nicodemus; 16. Plant food from the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age hilltop site Kush Kaya, Eastern Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria: Insights on the cooking practices /Hristo Popov, Elena Marinova, Ivanka Hristova and Stanislav Iliev
17. Food supply and disposal of food remains at Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Ada Tepe: Bioarchaeological aspects of food production, processing and consumption / Krassimir Nikov, Elena Marinova, Bea De Cupere, Ivanka Hristova, Yana Dimitrova, Stanislav Iliev and Hristo Popov; 18. Hunting together: Social aspects of hunting at a 13th-12th century BC fortified site in southwestern Bulgaria / John Gorczyk, Bogdan Athanassov and Philipp W. Stockhammer; 19. Where Angel feared not to tread: Anthropometric approaches to food studies in Aegean and Balkan prehistory / Eva Rosenstock and Alisa Scheibner
Summary Ever since the definition of the Neolithic Revolution by Vere Gordon Childe, archaeologists have been aware of the crucial importance of food for the understanding of prehistoric developments. Numerous studies have classified and described cooking ware, hearths and ovens, have studied food residues and more recently also stable isotopes in skeletal material. However, we have not yet succeeded in integrating traditional, functional perspectives on nutrition and semiotic approaches (e.g. dietary practices as an identity marker) with current research in the fields of Food Studies and Material Culture Studies. This volume brings together leading specialists in archaeobotany, economic zooarchaeology and palaeoanthropology to discuss practices of food production and consumption in their social dimensions from the Mesolithic to the Early Iron Age in the Balkans, a region with intermediary position between and the Aegean Sea on one side and Central Europe and the Eurasian steppe regions on the other side. The prehistoric inhabitants of the Balkans were repeatedly confronted with foreign knowledge and practices of food production and consumption which they integrated and thereby transformed into their life. In a series of transdisciplinary studies, the contributors shed new light on the various social dimensions of food in a synchronous as well as diachronic perspective
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Prehistoric peoples -- Food -- Balkan Peninsula
Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Balkan Peninsula
Social archaeology -- Balkan Peninsula
Ethnoarchaeology -- Balkan Peninsula
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Antiquities
Antiquities, Prehistoric
Ethnoarchaeology
Prehistoric peoples -- Food
Social archaeology
SUBJECT Balkan Peninsula -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94000656
Subject Balkan Peninsula
Form Electronic book
Author Ivanova, Mariya, editor.
Athanassov, Bogdan, editor.
Petrova, Vanya, editor.
Takorova, Desislava, editor.
ISBN 1789250811
9781789250817
9781789250831
1789250838