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Neolithic period --- Bronze age --- Agriculture, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric peoples --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Paleoethnobotany --- Néolithique --- Age du bronze --- Agriculture préhistorique --- Homme préhistorique --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Paléoethnobotanique --- Food. --- Nourriture --- Greece --- Grèce --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Food --- Néolithique --- Agriculture préhistorique --- Homme préhistorique --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Paléoethnobotanique --- Grèce --- Antiquités --- Antiquities --- Neolithic period - Greece --- Bronze age - Greece --- Agriculture, Prehistoric - Greece --- Prehistoric peoples - Food - Greece --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece --- Paleoethnobotany - Greece --- Greece - Antiquities

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"Greek archaeologist Soultana Maria Valamoti takes readers on a culinary journey in her synthesis of plant foods and culinary practices of Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece. Plant foods were the main ingredients of daily meals in prehistoric Greece and most likely of special dishes prepared for feasts and rituals. For more than thirty years, Valamoti has been analyzing a large body of archaeobotanic data that spans 7,000 years from the Neolithic to Bronze Age and that was retrieved from nearly one hundred sites in mainland Greece and the Greek islands. This book also reflects experimentation and research of ancient written sources. Her approach allows an exploration of culinary variability through time. The thousands of charred seeds identified from occupation debris correspond to minuscule time capsules. She is able to document changes from the cooking of the first farmers to the sophisticated cuisines of the elites who inhabited palaces in the first cities of Europe in the south of Greece during the Late Bronze Age. Along the way, she explains the complex processes for the addition of new ingredients (such as millet and olives), condiments, sweet tastes, and complex recipes. "Ancient Grains" also explores regional variability and diversity. Rich chapters are devoted to overviewing plantstuffs in their spatial and temporal distribution, with ritual and symbolic significance noted, and also to broader themes and practices. The main chapters are on bread/cereals, pulses, oils, fruit and nuts, fermented brews, healing foods, cooking, and identity. Valamoti also offers insight into engaging in public archaeology and provides recipes that incorporate ancient plant ingredients and connect prehistory to the present in a critical way. Finally, a thorough bibliography also includes archaeobotanical publications in Greek. Copious color and black and white photos enhance the text"--

Prehistoric peoples --- Food habits --- Plants, Edible --- Neolithic period --- Bronze age --- Food --- History

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The last decades have witnessed the adoption and refinement of various scientific techniques that allow us to reconstruct past diets, but also to understand the role of food in social interaction. These are exciting developments, but the proliferation of analytical techniques may also lead to over-specialization and fragmentation of the field. The papers in this volume explore the relation between diet, economy and society in the ancient Greek world by integrating different analytical techniques. Examples include the analysis of plant and animal remains, the bioarchaeological study of human remains, stable isotope and dental microwear analysis as well as the examination of organic residues. However, the aim of this volume is not only to compare different methods of analysis, but also to integrate method and theory and to reflect more widely on the integration of science and archaeology.

Food --- Diet --- Cooking, Greek --- Archaeology --- Aliments --- Alimentation --- Cuisine grecque --- Archéologie --- History --- Histoire --- Greece --- Grèce --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Commerce --- Conditions économiques --- Conditions sociales --- Diète --- Nutrition --- Cooking --- Diet. --- Civilization. --- Cooking. --- Manners and customs. --- Nutrition. --- Archäobotanik. --- Ernährung. --- Essgewohnheit. --- Food Habits --- Social Conditions --- Greek World --- History. --- history --- To 146 B.C. --- Greece. --- Griechenland. --- Civilization --- Social life and customs. --- Food Habits. --- history. --- Archéologie --- Grèce --- Conditions économiques --- Histoire.

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Plants have constituted the basis of human subsistence. This volume focuses on plant food ingredients that were consumed by the members of past societies and on the ways these ingredients were transformed into food. The thirty chapters of this book unfold the story of culinary transformation of cereals, pulses as well as of a wide range of wild and cultivated edible plants. Regional syntheses provide insights on plant species choices and changes over time and fragments of recipes locked inside amorphous charred masses. Grinding equipment, cooking installations and cooking pots are used to reveal the ancient cooking steps in order to pull together the pieces of a culinary puzzle of the past. From the big picture of spatiotemporal patterns and changes to the micro-imaging of usewear on grinding tool surfaces, the book attempts for the first time a comprehensive and systematic approach to ancient plant food culinary transformation. Focusing mainly on Europe and the Mediterranean world in prehistory, the book expands to other regions such as South Asia and Latin America and covers a time span from the Palaeolithic to the historic periods. Several of the contributions stem from original research conducted in the context of ERC project PlantCult: Investigating the Plant Food Cultures of Ancient Europe. The book's exploration into ancient cuisines culminates with an investigation of the significance of ethnoarchaeology towards a better understanding of past foodways as well as of the impact of archaeology in shaping modern culinary and consumer trends. The book will be of interest to archaeologists, food historians, agronomists, botanists as well as the wider public with an interest in ancient cooking.

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