Social Dimensions of Food in the Prehistoric Balkans 1789250803, 9781789250800

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Social Dimensions of Food in the Prehistoric Balkans
 1789250803, 9781789250800

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Introduction Philipp W. Stockhammer, Bogdan Athanassov and Maria Ivanova
1 ‘Herd’ mentality: László Bartosiewicz and Clive Bonsall
2 Neolithic taboos in Anatolia and southeast Europe: Nerissa Russell
3 Eating out: Food and social context in the Early Neolithic of Greece: Kostas Kotsakis
4 Breath of change: Food and pottery in the course of the Neolithic in northern Greece: Dushka Urem-Kotsou
5 Carcasses, ceramics, and cooking at Makriyalos I: Towards an integrated approach to human diet and commensality in Late Neolithic northern Greece: Valasia Isaakidou and Paul Halstead
6 Painted pottery and culinary practices: Use-alteration analysis of painted pottery from the site of Starčevo-Grad: Olga Bajčev
7 Feasting during the Early Neolithic of the central Balkans: The fauna from Blagotin, Serbia: Haskel J. Greenfield and Tina L. Jongsma-Greenfield
8 Of pits and bones: A ritual pit at the late Neolithic site of Sarnevo in Bulgarian Thrace: Krum Bacvarov and John Gorczyk
9 Foraging and food production strategies during the Early Neolithic in the Balkans-Carpathian area. The site of Bucova Pusta in Romanian Banat: Raiko Krauss, Bea De Cupere and Elena Marinova
10 ‘No quern, no food’? Milling technology and the spread of farming in southeast Europe: Maria Ivanova
11 Prehistoric agricultural toolkits in diachronic perspective: A case study from Bulgaria: Maria Gurova
12 Social dimensions of salt in the later prehistory of the eastern Balkans: Vassil Nikolov
13 Salt in European prehistory: Social and economic considerations: Anthony Harding
14 Plant-based food at Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Drama, southeast Bulgaria: Continuity and innovations: Ralf Gleser and Elena Marinova
15 Food, status, and power: Animal production and consumption practices during the Carpathian Basin Bronze Age: Amy Nicodemus
16 Plant food from the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age hilltop site Kush Kaya, Eastern Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria: Insights on the cooking practices: Hristo Popov, Elena Marinova, Ivanka Hristova and Stanislav Iliev
17 Food supply and disposal of food remains at Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Ada Tepe: Bioarchaeological aspects of food production, processing and consumption: Krassimir Nikov, Elena Marinova, Bea De Cupere, Ivanka Hristova, Yana Dimitrova, Stanislav Iliev and Hristo Popov
18 Hunting together: Social aspects of hunting at a 13th–12th century BC fortified site in southwestern Bulgaria: John Gorczyk, Bogdan Athanassov and Philipp W. Stockhammer
19 Where Angel feared not to tread: Anthropometric approaches to food studies in Aegean and Balkan prehistory: Eva Rosenstock and Alisa Scheibner

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