Ancient Egyptian herbal wines
The dry climate of Egypt has similarly contributed to excellent preservation of ancient organic materials, in addition to providing very detailed literary and botanical evidence for medicinal wines from one of the most long-standing ancient traditions.
To gather the fragments: The social significance of food and drink in early Christian ritual meals
The history of the eucharistic meals of early Christianity has been seen largely in terms of certain formal elements derived from one or other model of practice attributed to Jesus and the early Church.
Bronze Age pottery and settlements in southern England
What we need to do. Doctoral research involving artefact corpora appears to be unfashionable. However the compilation of such works for Food Vessels, accessory vessels and the Late Bronze Age styles is desperately needed; and the studies of Biconical Urns and MBA pottery (see above) need to be published.
Social significance of communal dining in Etruscan Italy from the seventh to the fourth century BC: an iconographical approach
Imagery relating to communal dining or banqueting in ancient Etruria is relatively abundant and provides a useful source of potential information about the workings of Etruscan society, not least because of the semantic value of banquet scenes.
Diet and Vegetation at Ancient Carthage: The Archaeobotanical Evidence
At present little reminds one of the glorious past of Carthage. Remains of monumental architecture are scarce; most traces of ancient Carthage still preserved are buried beneath the surface. This should be no great surprise if one considers that in ancient times the city was more than once destroyed and that for centuries the ruins were used for quarrying building material.
Bread Making and Social Interactions at the Amarna Workmen's Village, Egypt
The central role which food plays in all human societies means that food impinges on many aspects of culture. Since archaeology is concerned with ancient culture, ancient food provision seems a natural area to explore. To date, most work has concentrated on raw resources and subsistence, but archaeologists have recently begun to explore food and its relation to culture much more widely.
Pigs and Their Prohibition
Because no single discipline or explanation seems adequate to understandthis practice, the search draws data from biology, anthropology, ancient history, mythology, religion, and ecology. Some have dismissed religious explanations as ar- bitrary and tautological, but the information provided in this article shows that religious beliefs are important.
People were making cheese over 7,000 years ago, researchers find
Umami and the foods of classical antiquity
Fish sauce imparted to Roman dishes a moderately salty, slightly ?shy taste that combines synergistically with other foods to create the umami ?avor.
Wine, Slaves, and the Emperor at Villa Magna
The project began with a geophysical survey of the site which generated a surprisingly clear vision of the buildings scattered along two low ridges of the Monte Lepini.