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Food & Drink in Archaeology 2: University of Nottingham Postgraduate Conference 2008

edited by Naomi Sykes and Claire Newton

This is the second volume of a series from the Department of Archaeology at Nottingham University which organises a postgraduate conference on this particular theme in the early summer of each year. Save for the keynote essay by the archaeologist of Roman Britain, Hilary Cool, all the authors are postgraduate researchers.

While the importance of nutrition for survival has long been recognised, increasing emphasis is being put on the cultural significance of the production, distribution and consumption of foodstuffs throughout all archaeological periods. These papers reflect an interest in the sorts of foods consumed, the ways in which they were consumed, and the consequences of their concumption.

Contributions range widely over Europe and Asia and cover several forms of historical or archaeological investigation based on documentary and visual records as well as excavation and chemical analysis. In like manner, a number of different historical and prehistorical eras are under discussion.

Contents include: Fish knives, silver spoons and red dishes (Hilary Cool); Irish names in a London cemetery - is it possible to identify Irish Immigration in 19th Century Lukin Street? (Julia Beaumont); Re-enactment and Ritual Consumption: the Kykeon in ancient mystery cults (Kirsten Bedigan); The economic, social and environmental implications of faunal remains from the Bronze Age Copper Mines at Great Orme, North Wales (Sian Beecroft); The Dun Cow and the Durham Ox: From dairy to beef in 18th century northeast England (Louisa Gidney); 'A Moveable Feast': Negotiating Gender at the Middle Class Tea-Table in 18th and 19th Century England (Annie Gray); An Isotopic Approach to Diet in Medieval Spain (Michelle Mundee); The Ritualisation of Eating and Drinking: Politics, Religion and Food Consumption in Pre-Roman Veneto, Italy (Elisa Perego); Infant Feeding and Weaning Practices as Data for Fertility Estimates of a Roman Period Population Sample from Kellis 2, Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt (Jennifer Sharman); Stable Isotope Analysis of DISH (Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis) and Diet (Rosa Spencer); Agricultural crop choices and social change in the Yellow River Valley, North Central China during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (Alison Weisskopf). 126p, 36 b/w photos & charts (Prospect Books 2009)

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