TY - GEN T1 - Social dimensions of food in the Prehistoric Balkans A2 - Ivanova, Mariya A2 - Athanassov, Bogdan A2 - Petrova, Vanya A2 - Takorova, Desislava LA - English PP - Havertown PB - Oxbow Books YR - 2018 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1057692368 AB - Ever since the definition of the Neolithic Revolution by Vere Gordon Childe, archaeologists have been aware of the crucial importance of food for the understanding of prehistoric developments. Numerous studies have classified and described cooking ware, hearths and ovens, have studied food residues and more recently also stable isotopes in skeletal material. However, we have not yet succeeded in integrating traditional, functional perspectives on nutrition and semiotic approaches (e.g. dietary practices as an identity marker) with current research in the fields of Food Studies and Material Culture Studies. This volume brings together leading specialists in archaeobotany, economic zooarchaeology and palaeoanthropology to discuss practices of food production and consumption in their social dimensions from the Mesolithic to the Early Iron Age in the Balkans, a region with intermediary position between and the Aegean Sea on one side and Central Europe and the Eurasian steppe regions on the other side. The prehistoric inhabitants of the Balkans were repeatedly confronted with foreign knowledge and practices of food production and consumption which they integrated and thereby transformed into their life. In a series of transdisciplinary studies, the contributors shed new light on the various social dimensions of food in a synchronous as well as diachronic perspective. OP - 367 CN - GN799.F6 SN - 1789250811 SN - 9781789250817 SN - 9781789250831 SN - 1789250838 SN - 9781789250800 KW - Prehistoric peoples : Food : Balkan Peninsula. KW - Antiquities, Prehistoric : Balkan Peninsula. KW - Social archaeology : Balkan Peninsula. KW - Ethnoarchaeology : Balkan Peninsula. KW - Balkan Peninsula : Antiquities. KW - Sociétés préhistoriques : Alimentation : Balkans. KW - Archéologie sociale : Balkans. KW - Ethnoarchéologie : Balkans. KW - Balkans : Antiquités. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Archaeology. KW - HISTORY : Europe : General. KW - Antiquities KW - Antiquities, Prehistoric KW - Ethnoarchaeology KW - Prehistoric peoples : Food KW - Social archaeology KW - Balkan Peninsula ER -