Ancient Foodways

List of Figures

List of Tables

Chapter 1. Ancient Foodways: Integrative Approaches to Understanding Subsistence and Society
C. Margaret Scarry, Dale L. Hutchinson, and Benjamin S. Arbuckle

Part 1. Feasting and Politics

Chapter 2. Feeding the Ancestors? Ritual Economy and the Origins of Animal Management in Neolithic Southwest Asia
Benjamin S. Arbuckle

Chapter 3. Food, Inequality, and Conquest in Warring States China
Elizabeth Berger, Liang Chen, Jing Shao, and Zhanwei Sun

Chapter 4. Commensal Politics and Identity Performance at Azoria, an Archaic City on Crete
C. Margaret Scarry, Donald C. Haggis, Margaret S. Mook, Rodney D. Fitzsimons, W. Flint Dibble, and Christina Tsoraki

Chapter 5. Ritual, Feasting, and Community Building on the Copacabana Peninsula, 1000 BC–AD 200
Sara L. Juengst, Dale L. Hutchinson, Sergio J. Chávez, Stanislava R. Chávez, Theresa Schober, Lynette Norr, and Abigail Bythell

Part 2. Sacrifice, Ritual, and Ancestors

Chapter 6. Food for the Dead and the Living: Contextualizing Biological Remains from Late Classic Maya Structures at K’axob, Belize
Maia Dedrick, Patricia A. McAnany, and Shannon Vance

Chapter 7. From Subsistence to Sacrifice: Dogs for Dinner and Ritual in Classic Period Zapotec Communities
Heather A. Lapham, Gary M. Feinman, and Linda M. Nicholas

Chapter 8. A Mississippian Example of Harvest Renewal Ceremonialism
Erin Stevens Nelson, Ashley Peles, and Mallory A. Melton

Chapter 9. Edible Metaphors and the Mississippian Phenomenon: A Case Study from the Black Warrior River Valley, Alabama, AD 1070–1250
Rachel V. Briggs

Part 3. Diet, Landscape, and Health

Chapter 10. Late Archaic and Woodland Foodways and Landscapes in Tuckaleechee Cove, East Tennessee
Kandace D. Hollenbach

Chapter 11. Conflicted Landscapes: An Integrative Bioarchaeological and Archaeobotanical Study of the Forbush Creek Site, North Carolina
Steph M. Berger and Anna F. Graham

Chapter 12. Dietary Pathologies and Isotope Diversity in Imperial Rome (First to Fourth Centuries AD)
Kristina Killgrove and Andrea N. Acosta

Part 4. Integrative Methods

Chapter 13. Employing Local Food Resources for Dietary Reconstruction via Stable Isotope Analysis
Sophia C. Dent and Dale L. Hutchinson

Chapter 14. The Effects of Foodways Practices on Nutritional Availability
Sophia C. Dent, Dale L. Hutchinson, and Marissa W. Bruce

Chapter 15. Connecting the Present to the Past: How Collaborative Archaeology Can Inform Us about Ancient Foodways
Gabrielle C. Purcell

List of Contributors

Index