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The large-scale, formal consumption of huge quantities of food and drink is a feature of many societies, but extracting evidence for feasting from the archaeological record has, until recently, been problematic. This collection of essays investigates the rich evidence for the character of the Mycenaean feast. While much of the evidence discussed comes from the Palace of Nestor near Pylos, the authors also discuss new material from Tsoungiza near Nemea, and from other Bronze Age sites on mainland Greece and Crete. Textual evidence (from Linear B tablets) for the collection of raw materials, and the stocktaking of equipment, is complemented by discussions of the faunal and artifactual assemblages feasts left behind. Specially commissioned papers put Mycenaean practice in context by comparing it to contemporary activities on Cyprus and in Minoan Crete, while a final chapter compares Bronze with Iron Age Greece, especially as seen through the lens of Homeric epic. This volume offers a rich and detailed collection of evidence, from a variety of sources, for conspicuous consumption in the Mycenaean period. As well as being core reading for Aegean prehistorians, it will be of interest to students of later Greek culture, anthropologists, and other scholars interested in the wider social aspects of eating and drinking.

Civilization, Mycenaean. --- Food habits --- History --- Greece --- Antiquities. --- Civilization, Mycenaean --- Eating --- Food customs --- Foodways --- Human beings --- Habit --- Manners and customs --- Diet --- Nutrition --- Oral habits --- Mycenaean civilization --- Civilization, Aegean --- Food habits - Greece - History - To 1500. --- Greece - Antiquities.

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"A hill dominating the Nemea Valley, Tsoungiza is located only 10 kilometers northwest of the citadel of Mycenae. Excavations there have uncovered the remains of a Late Helladic settlement that stood at its southern end. This volume presents the results of these investigations with an unprecedented study of a small settlement's economy and society in the Mycenaean period. Through an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates a wide variety of general and specialist studies, the authors demonstrate how agricultural production, craft activities, and ceremonial practices integrated the inhabitants of Tsoungiza into a regional exchange system within the Bronze Age world"--

Civilization, Mycenaean --- Bronze age --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Mycenaean civilization --- Civilization, Aegean --- Nemea Valley Archaeological Project. --- Bryn Mawr College. --- Mycenae (Extinct city) --- Nemea Region (Greece) --- Greece --- Mikínai (Extinct city) --- Mukenai (Extinct city) --- Mycena (Extinct city) --- Mycenae (Ancient city) --- Mycenes (Extinct city) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Civilization --- Civilization, Mycenaean. --- Mycenae (Extinct city). --- Civilisation mycénienne. --- Bronze age. --- Excavations (Archaeology). --- Nemea Site (Greece) --- Nemea (Greece) --- Mycènes (Ville ancienne). --- Grèce --- Greece. --- Antiquités.

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This volume is the final publication of the results of excavation of six Mycenaean chamber tombs in the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Ayia Sotira within the Nemea Valley of the Argolid region of Greece. The work presented includes artifactual and ecofactual remains such as pottery, jewelry, figurines, metal objects, human skeletons, and botanical remains.

Cemeteries --- Tombs --- Civilization, Mycenaean --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Mycenaean civilization --- Civilization, Aegean --- Burial grounds --- Burying-grounds --- Churchyards --- Graves --- Graveyards --- Memorial gardens (Cemeteries) --- Memorial parks (Cemeteries) --- Memory gardens (Cemeteries) --- Necropoleis --- Necropoles --- Necropoli --- Necropolises --- Burial --- Death care industry --- Nemea Valley Archaeological Project. --- Bryn Mawr College. --- Nemea Region (Greece) --- Antiquities. --- Civilization, Mycenaean.

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