Archaeology of food : an encyclopedia /

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Other Authors: Metheny, Karen Bescherer, 1960- (Editor), Beaudry, Mary Carolyn, 1950-2020 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
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ISBN:9780759123649
0759123640
Table of Contents:
  • Volume 1: A-K. Agave distillation
  • Agricultural features, identification and analysis
  • Agricultural/Horticultural sites
  • Agriculture, origins of
  • Agriculture, procurement, processing, and storage
  • Amphorae
  • Ancient clam gardens (Northwest coast, North America)
  • Animal domestication
  • Animal husbandry and herding
  • Archaeobotany
  • Archaeology of cooking
  • Archaeology of household food production
  • Architectural analysis
  • Areni (Armenia)
  • Bakeries
  • Barley
  • Bean/Common bean
  • Bedrock features
  • Beer
  • Bioarchaeological analysis
  • Biomolecular analysis
  • Black drink (Cassina)
  • Bogs
  • Bone fat extraction
  • Bottle gourd
  • Bread
  • Breweries
  • Brewing/Malting
  • Broad spectrum revolution
  • Butchery
  • Cacao/Chocolate
  • Cannibalism
  • Carvings/Carved representations of food
  • Catalhoyuk (Turkey)
  • Cattle
  • Cereals
  • Chicha
  • Chicken
  • Chili peppers
  • Clay cooking balls
  • Coca
  • Coffee
  • Columbian exchange
  • Commensality
  • Conchopata (Peru)
  • Condiments
  • Consumption
  • Cookbooks
  • Cooking vessels, ceramic
  • Cooking vessels, metal
  • Cooking vessels, other matherials
  • Cooperative hunting
  • Creole cuisines/Foodways
  • Creolization
  • Cultivation
  • Curry
  • Dental analysis
  • Dhra' (Jordan)
  • Diaspora foodways
  • Digestion and human evolution
  • Distillation
  • Distilled spirits
  • DNA analysis
  • Documentary analysis
  • Domestic sites
  • Ethnoarchaeology
  • Ethnographic sources
  • Experimental archaeology
  • Factories
  • Famine
  • Feasting
  • Feddersen Wierde (Germany)
  • Fermentation
  • Fire and the development of cooking
  • Fire and the development of cooking technology
  • Fire-based cooking features
  • Fish/Shellfish
  • Fishing
  • Flotation
  • Food and capitalism
  • Food and colonialism
  • Food and conflict
  • Food and dining as social display
  • Food and gender
  • Food and identity
  • Food and inequality
  • Food and politics
  • Food and power
  • Food and ritual
  • Food and status
  • Food appropriation and culinary imperialism
  • Food as a commodity
  • Food as sensory experience
  • Food preservation
  • Food production and the formation of complex societies
  • Food production and the origins of writing in Mesopotamia
  • Food sharing
  • Food storage
  • Food technology and ideas about food, spread of
  • Foodways
  • Foodways and gender roles
  • Foodways and religious practices
  • Foraging
  • Franchthi Cave (Greece)
  • Fruits
  • Fungi
  • Gao (Mali)
  • Gas chromatography/Gas chromatography-Mass spectrometry
  • Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (Israel)
  • Globalization
  • Gobekli Tepe (Turkey)
  • Gordion (Turkey)
  • Gran Dolina (Spain)
  • Greens/Herbs
  • Guila Naquitz (Mexico)
  • Gut analysis
  • Haithabu/Hedeby (Germany)
  • Hazor (Israel)
  • Herculaneum and Pompeii (Italy)
  • High performance liquid chromatography
  • Hilazon Tachtit (Israel)
  • Honey and nectar
  • Household archaeology
  • Hunter-gatherer subsistence
  • Iceman
  • Immigrant foodways
  • Industrialization of food and food production
  • Informal economic exchange
  • Infrared spectroscopy/Fourier transform intrared spectroscopy
  • Innovation and risk
  • Insecticides/Repellants
  • Insects
  • Irrigation/Hydraulic engineering
  • Jamestown, Virginia (United States)
  • Jerimalai Cave (East Timor)
  • Joya de Ceren (El Salvador)
  • Kabah (Mexico)
  • Volume 2: L-Z. Lactase, persistence and dairying
  • Lake villages (Europe)
  • Landscape and environmental reconstruction
  • Latrines and sewer systems
  • Legumes and pulses
  • Macroremains
  • Maize
  • Manioc/Cassava
  • Manures and other fertilizers, identification and analysis
  • Manuring and soil enrichment practices
  • Marine mammals
  • Markets/Exchange
  • Material culture analysis
  • Mead
  • Meat
  • Mesoamerican Archaic-period diet
  • Mesolithic diet
  • Middens and other trash deposits
  • Military sites
  • Milk and dairy products
  • Millets
  • Milling
  • Mortuary complexes
  • mtDNA analysis
  • Multi- and interdisciplinary approaches
  • Mummies
  • Nanchoc Valley (Peru)
  • Native American ethnobotany
  • Neanderthal diet
  • Neolithic package
  • Niah Caves (Malaysia)
  • Nixtamalization
  • Nuts
  • Oedenburg (France)
  • Offerings and grave goods
  • Ohalo II (Israel)
  • Oil-bearing seed plants
  • Old World globalization and food exchanges
  • Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
  • Olive oil
  • Oral and folk narratives
  • Ovens and stoves
  • Pacific Oceanic exchange
  • Paisley Caves, Oregon (United States)
  • Palace of Nestor (Greece)
  • Paleodemography
  • Paleodietary analysis
  • Paleofecal analysis
  • Paleoindian diet
  • Paleolithic diet
  • Paleonutrition
  • Paleopathology
  • Palynology
  • Parasitological analysis
  • Philistine foodways
  • Phytolith analysis
  • Pig
  • Plant domestication
  • Plant husbandry
  • Plant processing
  • Plants
  • Poplar forest, Virginia (United States)
  • Potato
  • Preferences, avoidances, prohibitions, taboos
  • Pre-Silk Road agricultural exchange (Central Asia)
  • Psychoactive plants
  • Pulque
  • Quids
  • Quseir al-Qadim (Egypt)
  • Radiocarbon dating
  • Recipes
  • Representational models of food and food production
  • Residue analysis, blood
  • Residue analysis, dairy products
  • Residue analysis, starch
  • Residue analysis, tartaric acid
  • Residue analysis, Theobromine
  • Rice
  • RNA analysis
  • Rock art
  • Rockshelters/Caves
  • Root crops/Tubers
  • Rye
  • Salt
  • San Genesio, Medieval tavern site (San Miniato, Pisa) (Italy)
  • Sardis, ritual egg deposit (Turkey)
  • Scanning electron microscopy
  • Secondary products revolution
  • Sedentism and domestication
  • Sheep/Goat
  • Shell middens
  • Shipwrecks
  • Slave diet, on slave ships
  • Slave diet, on Southern plantations
  • Slave diet, on West Indian plantations
  • Soil microtechniques
  • Sorghums
  • Spatial analysis and visualization techniques
  • Spent grain as animal feed
  • Spices
  • Squash/Gourds
  • Stable isotope analysis
  • Star Carr (England)
  • Starches, role of
  • Storage facilities
  • Stores/Markets
  • Subeixi cemeteries (China)
  • Subsistence models
  • Sucrose
  • Sustainability
  • Sweet potato
  • Taro
  • Taverns/Inns
  • Tea
  • Teeth, diet, and human evolution
  • Tehuacan Valley (Mexico)
  • Tel Rehov (Israel)
  • Tobacco
  • Tools/Utensils, decorated
  • Tools/Utensils, ground stone
  • Tools/Utensils, metal
  • Tools/Utensils, organic materials
  • Tools/Utensils, stone
  • Trace element analysis in human diet
  • Trade routes
  • Umami/Glutamates
  • Use-wear analysis, lithics
  • Use-wear analysis, metal
  • Use-wear or use-alteration analysis, pottery
  • Vegetables
  • Wall paintings/Murals
  • Water
  • Water suppy and storage
  • Weapons, bone/antler/ivory
  • Weapons, metal
  • Weapons. stone
  • Weeds
  • Wheat
  • Wild progenitors of domesticated plants
  • Wine
  • Wineries
  • Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa)
  • Work camps
  • Yam
  • Yeast
  • York (England)
  • Zooarchaeology.