Research Catalog

Title

Food, cuisine and society in prehistoric Greece / edited by Paul Halstead and John C. Barrett.

Author

Round Table on Aegean Archaeology (6th : 2001 : Sheffield, England)

Publication

Oxford : Oxbow Books, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Halstead, Paul
• Barrett, John C.

Description

x, 205 p. : ill., plans, tables; 25 cm.

Summary

"Food and drink, along with the material culture involved in their consumption, can signify a variety of social distinctions, identities and values. Thus, in Early Minoan Knossos, tableware was used to emphasize the difference between the host and the guests, and at Mycenaean Pylos the status of banqueters was declared as much by the places assigned to them as by the quality of the vessels from which they ate and drank. The ten contributions to this volume highlight the extraordinary opportunity for multi-disciplinary research in this area."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology ; 5

Uniform Title

Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology 5.

Subject

• Food habits > Greece > History
• Dinners and dining > Greece > History
• Prehistoric peoples > Food > Greece

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Based upon papers presented at the 6th Round Table on Aegean Archeaology, held at Sheffield in January 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : food, cuisine and society in prehistoric Greece / Paul Halstead, John C. Barrett -- Evidence for large-scale feasting at Late Neolithic Makriyalos, Northern Greece / Maria Pappa, Paul Halstead, Kostas Kotsakis, Duska Urem-Kotsou -- Ceramic change and the practice of eating and drinking in Early Bronze Age Crete / Peter Day, David Wilson -- Ceramic sets in context : one dimension of food preparation and consumption in a Minoan palatial setting / Jeremy B. Rutter -- Mycenaean drinking services and standards of etiquette / James C. Wright -- Fit for a king? : hierarchy, exclusion, aspiration and desire in the social structure of Mycenaean banqueting / Lisa Bendall -- Faunal evidence for feasting : burnt offerings from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos / Paul Halstead, Valasia Isaakidou -- Wheat, barley, flour, olives and figs on linear B tablets / John Killen -- Social meanings of food and drink consumption at LMIII Phaistos / Elisabetta Borgna -- Animal husbandry revisited : the social significance of meat consumption in a highland village of Mt. Psiloritis, Central Crete / Elia A. Vardaki.

ISBN

1842171674

LCCN

^^2005298771

OCLC

• 60325865
• SCSB-11100178

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library