Food, Cuisine and Society in Prehistoric Greece

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Paul Halstead, John C. Barrett
Oxbow Books, 2004 - Cooking - 205 pages
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 vessles form which they ate and drank. The ten contributions to this volume highlight the extraordinary opportunity for multi-disciplinary research in this area.

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MARIA PAPPA PAUL HALSTEAD KOSTAS KOTSAKIS AND DUSKA UREMKOTSOU
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PETER DAY AND DAVID WILSON
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JEREMY B RUTTER
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Paul Halstead is professor of archaeology at the University of Sheffield. He specialises in the archaeology (including zooarchaeology) of early farmers and early complex societies in Greece and the ethnoarchaeology of traditional farming and herding in Mediterranean Europe.

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