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This is the first volume of a projected series from the Department of Archaeology at Nottingham University. What sets it apart is that it is a postgraduate conference, not just the usual old lags' excuse for a get-together, so the contributors are presenting research that is both new and at the cutting-edge of academic preoccupation. While the importance of nutrition for survival has long been recognised, increasing emphasis is being put on the cultural significance of the production, distribution and consumption of foodstuffs throughout all archaeological periods. The ancient Near East, the Mediterranean, Europe and the British Isles come under the microscope, even the household diet of the Willoughby family, former residents of Wollaton Hall in Nottingham is scrutinised.More than 20 researchers write on topics, including hunting in Roman Britain; how food reached the Roman frontier; what was sold in the grocery shops of Roman Pompeii and Ostia; the use of stimulants in ancient societies; feasting in Mycenae and the Aegean; food storage and production in Norse Greenland and 17th century. The format is that of academic proceedings, and the readership is expected to be wholly academic.
Contents
Kirsten Bedigan (University of Glasgow)Intoxication and Initiation: Alcohol and the Cult of the KabeiroiMark Dawson (The University of Nottingham)Changing tastes in sixteenth-century England: evidence from the household accounts of the Willoughby familyAnnie Gray (University of York)'The Privilege of Civilisation': Cultural Change at the Victorian TableKatherine Harrell and Rachel Fox (University of Sheffield)An Invitation to War: Constructing Alliances and Allegiances through Mycenaean Palatial FeastsSarah-Jane Hathaway (University of Bournemouth)"Take with a pinch of salt?"Kay Lakin (University of Reading)An Isotopic Approach to Diet in Later Medieval London: A Consideration of Social and Cultural IssuesAlexandra Livarda (University of Leicester)The Roman Temptation: how an indulgence in exotic food plants shaped the worldWelmoed Out (University of Leiden)Food plants at Dutch Mesolithic and Neolithic wetland sitesElizabeth Pierce (University of Glasgow)Dinner at the Edge of the World: Why the Greenland Norse tried to keep a European diet in an unforgiving landscapeKristopher Poole (The University of Nottingham)Living and Eating in Viking Age Towns and their HinterlandsMichela Sandias (University of Reading)Stable Isotope Analysis of Faunal and Human Skeletal Remains from Jordan: a Look on EnvironmentDiet and Societies of Past LevantAnne Sassin (The University of Nottingham)Feasting and Subsistence in Early Medieval IrelandKarin Schuitema (University of Leiden)A comparative study on elite feasting and banqueting in the Aegean and the Near EastAviva Shuman (University of Amsterdam)Foodways as a Reflection of Cultural Identity In a Roman Frontier Province - Bridging the Gap from Theory to MaterialAndy Tullett (University of Leicester) and Chris Harrison (University of Sheffield)The Pewsey Middens - Centres for feasting or symbols of community?Anna Ziel (University of Hamburg)The Distribution of Taverns in Ostia AnticaAntonietta Buglione (University of Foggia)Animal management and supply in Apulia from Late Antiquity to Early Middle AgeKerry Harris and Dr Yannis Hamilakis (University of Southampton)A Social Zooarchaeology of Feasting: the evidence from the ritual deposit at Nopigeia, CreteKalliopi Nikita (The University of Nottingham)Fourth century AD glass table-wares from the Small Bathhouse in Eleutherna-Sector I, Crete.Hannah Russ and AKG Jones (University of Bradford)Trout Processing in the Upper Palaeolithic?Mikael Simonsson"A people who eats wood and drinks water, the Devil can not persuade nor can Man" - Food in rural areas during the middle Ages (c. 1050-1532) in County Dalarna, Sweden. An example from Vastannorstjarn
