Food and urbanization. Material and textual perspectives on alimentary practice in early Mesopotamia
Author : Maria Bianca D'Anna
Publisher : Gangemi Editore spa
ISBN 13 : 884924763X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (492 download)
Book Synopsis Food and urbanization. Material and textual perspectives on alimentary practice in early Mesopotamia by : Maria Bianca D'Anna
Download or read book Food and urbanization. Material and textual perspectives on alimentary practice in early Mesopotamia written by Maria Bianca D'Anna and published by Gangemi Editore spa. This book was released on 2017-03-16T00:00:00+01:00 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food has played a key role in the emergence of urbanization in Mesopotamia throughout the fourth millennium BCE. Although the food itself is only rarely preserved, we do have a great deal of evidence for the production, redistribution and administration of food and beverages in the Late Uruk period archaeological and textual record. The papers collected here derive from a workshop of the same name that took place in Berlin in March 2014 at the Freie Universität Berlin and was funded by Institut Européen d’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation in Tours. The workshop brought together specialists from different disciplines such as archaeology, philology and archaeozoology, all of which take the material remains of the Mesopotamian Late Uruk period as their object of investigation. Through the combination of different datasets on Uruk foodways, these papers provide a snapshot of current research on Late Uruk food procurement, processing, consumption and administration.