scholarly journals Syro-Hittite iconography and food in practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Herzog
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Banquet Scenes ◽  
Food And Identity ◽  
Archaeology Of Food

Figure 1. Map of Syro-Hittite kingdoms (Niehr, Herbert. The Aramaeans in ancient Syria. Leiden: Brill, 2014.)Alongside the rise of the independent Syro-Hittite kingdoms in the 1st millennium BC, a distinctive category of banquet scenes also developed in the northern Syria/southern Anatolia region. Iron Age Sam’al—modern Zincirli Höyük—was one such kingdom. This talk will explore how these scenes relate to the archaeology of food and identity by addressing the following concepts:Stylistic elements and local/regional identityLimitations of iconographic interpretationFood-related practices and archaeological correlates from Zincirli 

Archaeology of Food and Identity

2003 ◽  
Vol 44 (8) ◽  
pp. 17-17
Author(s):  
Katheryn C Twiss
Keyword(s):  
Food And Identity ◽  
Archaeology Of Food

Food - Katheryn C. Twiss (ed.). The Archaeology of Food and Identity (Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper 34). 2007. xii+340 pages, 67 figures, 16 tables. Carbondale (IL): Southern Illinois University Carbondale; 978-0-88104-091-6 paperback $42. - Christopher Mee & Josette Renard (ed). Cooking up the Past: Food and Culinary Practices in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean. xii+380 pages, 103 illustrations, 20 tables. 2007. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-227-8 paperback £35. - H.E.M. Cool Eating and Drinking in Roman Britain. xvi+282 pages, 30 illustrations, 43 tables. 2006. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-52180276-5 hardback £55 & $99; 978-0-521-00327-8 - Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti, translated by Ruth Anne Lotero. Meals and recipes from Ancient Greece. vi+122 pages, illustrated. 2007 (first published in Italian in 2005 by l’Erma di Bretschneider, Rome). Los Angeles (CA): J. Paul Getty Museum; 978-089236-876-1 hardback £15.99. - David Peacock & David Williams (ed.). Food for the Gods: New Light on the Ancient Incense Trade. xiv+152 pages, 76 illustrations. 2007. Oxford: Oxbow; 978-1-84217-225-4 hardback £35. - Susan Stewart. Cosmetics & Perfumes in the Roman World. 160 pages, 43 illustrations. 2007. Stroud: Tempus; 978-0-7524-4098-9 paperback £16.99.

Antiquity ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 81 (313) ◽  
pp. 819-821
Author(s):  
Madeleine Hummler
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Roman Britain ◽  
Southern Illinois ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Past ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Food And Identity ◽  
Archaeology Of Food

Interim report on the structures at Howe, Stromness, Orkney

1984 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
S P Carter ◽  
D Haigh ◽  
N R J Neil ◽  
Beverley Smith
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Interim Report ◽  
Complex Series ◽  
Settlement Site ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Iron Working

Summary Excavations at Howe revealed a complex series of settlements which spanned the whole of the Iron Age period and were preceded by two phases of Neolithic activity. A probable stalled cairn was succeeded by a Maes Howe type chambered tomb which was later followed by enclosed settlements of which only scant remains survived. These settlements were replaced by a roundhouse with earth-house, built into the ruins of the chambered tomb. The roundhouse was surrounded by a contemporary defended settlement. Rebuilding led to the development of a broch structure and village. Partial collapse of tower brought about changes in the settlement, andalthougk some houses were maintained as domestic structures, others were rebuilt as iron-working sheds. The construction of smaller buildings and a later Iron Age or Pictish extended farmstead into rubble collapse accompanied a decline in the size of the settlement. The abandonment of the farmstead marked the end of Howe as a settlement site.

Archaeological Investigations at Mavis Grind, Shetland

1983 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Cracknell ◽  
Beverley Smith
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Field System ◽  
M 10 ◽  
Settlement Site

Summary The excavations revealed a stone house and showed that it was oval, 13 m × 10 m, with an interior about 7 m in diameter. In the first occupation phase the entrance was on the SE side. During the second phase this entrance was replaced with one to the NE and the interior was partitioned. The roof was supported on wooden posts. After the building was abandoned it was covered with peat-ash which was subsequently ploughed. There were numerous finds of steatite-tempered pottery and stone implements, which dated the site to late Bronze/early Iron Age. The second settlement, Site B, lay by the shore of the voe and consisted of two possible stone-built houses and a field system. Two trenches were dug across the structures and the results are reported in Appendix I. Although damaged in recent years it was in no further danger.

The Excavation of a Settlement of the Later Bronze Age and Iron Age at Myrehead, Falkirk District

1983 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
G J Barclay
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Farming System ◽  
Activity Period ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
Ring Groove ◽  
Domestic Activity ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
First Millennium Bc ◽  
Actual Settlement

SUMMARY Myrehead has revealed the eroded remnants of activity from the Beaker period (Period A) onwards, with actual settlement evinced only from about the early first millennium be. The three houses and the cooking pits of Period B may have been constructed and used sequentially. This open settlement was probably replaced during the mid first millennium bc, possibly without a break, by a palisaded enclosure (Period C), which may have contained a ring-groove house and a four-post structure. Continued domestic activity (Period D) was suggested by a single pit outside the enclosure, dated to the late first millennium bc/early first millennium ad. The limited evidence of the economy of the settlements suggests a mixed farming system.

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