Ceramics, cuisine and culture : the archaeology and science of kitchen pottery in the ancient Mediterranean world / / edited by Michela Spataro and Alexandra Villing

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460567603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Oxbow Books, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-78297-950-6; 1-78297-948-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 937
• Soggetti: Pottery, Ancient - Mediterranean Region; Kitchen utensils - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500; Cookware - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500; Cooking - Social aspects - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500; Material culture - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500; Social change - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500; Social archaeology - Mediterranean Region; Ethnoarchaeology - Mediterranean Region; Electronic books.; Mediterranean Region Antiquities; Mediterranean Region Social life and customs
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; List of contributors; 1 Investigating ceramics, cuisine and culture - past, present and future; I How to make a perfect cooking pot: technical choices between tradition and innovation; 2 Materials choices in utilitarian pottery: kitchen wares in the Berbati valley, Greece; 3 Home-made recipes: tradition and innovation in Bronze Age cooking pots from Akrotiri, Thera; 4 Heating efficiency of archaeological cooking vessels: computer models and simulations of heat transfer; 5 A ; contextual ethnography of cooking vessel production at Pòrtol, Mallorca (Balearic islands); 6 Aegina: an important centre of production of cooking pottery from the prehistoric to the historic era7 True grit: production and exchange of cooking wares in the 9th-century BC Aegean; 8 Cooking wares between the Hellenistic and Roman world: artefact variability, technological choiceand practice; II Lifting the lid on ancient cuisine: understanding cooking as socio-economic practice; 9 From cooking pots to cuisine. Limitations and perspectives of a ceramic-based approach; 10 Cooking up new perspectives for Late Minoan IB domestic activities: an experimental approachto understanding the possibilities and probabilities of using ancient cooking pots11 Reading the residues: the use of chromatographic and mass spectrometric techniques forreconstructing the role of kitchen and other domestic vessels in Roman antiquity; 12 Cooking pots in ancient and Late Antique cookbooks; 13 Unchanging tastes: first steps towards the correlation of the evidence for food preparationand consumption in ancient Laconia; 14 Fuel, cuisine and food preparation in Etruria and Latium: cooking stands as evidence for change15 Vivaria in doliis: a cultural and social marker of Romanised society?; III New pots, new recipes? Changing tastes, culinary identities and cross-cultural encounters; 16 The Athenian kitchen from the Early Iron Age to the Hellenistic period; 17 Mediterranean-type cooking ware in indigenous contexts during the Iron Age in southern Gaul(6th-3rd centuries BC); 18 Forms of adoption, adaptation and resistance in the cooking ware repertoire of Lucania, South Italy(8th-3rd centuries BC); 19 Pots and bones: cuisine in Roman Tuscany - the example of Il Monte20 Culinary clash in northwestern Iberia at the height of the Roman Empire:the Castro do Vieito case study; 21 Coarse kitchen and household pottery as an indicator for Egyptian presence in the southern Levant:a diachronic perspective; 22 Kitchen pottery from Iron Age Cyprus: diachronic and social perspectives; Postscript: Looking beyond antiquity; 23 Aegean cooking pots in the modern era (1700-1950); Index