Food & drink in archaeology 3; proceedings. by University of Nottingham Postgraduate Conference (3rd: 2009: Nottingham, UK) Ed. by Dave Collard et al - 2012

Prospect Books, 2012. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. The themes of the gathering which resulted in these proceedings were identifying feasting and consumption events, the link between food and the dead, the archaeology of drinking, cultural change, and environmental archaeology. Half of the 24 presentations are published, along with four shorter papers developed from posters. The topics include psychoactive consumption in Cypriot Bronze Age mortuary ritual, living and eating in coastal Brazil during prehistory, food diversity in Mesolithic Scotland, feasting and the state in Uruk Mesopotamia, and the fauna of the Neolithic lakeside settlement of Dispilio in Greek Macedonia. There is no index. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. (2012 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)