title: Introduction: Social dimensions of food
creator: Stockhammer, Philipp W.
creator: Athanassov, Bogdan
creator: Ivanova, Maria
subject: ddc-930
subject: Alte Geschichte, Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Archäologie
subject: History of the ancient world to ca. 499 [T930]
subject: Prehistoric Archaeology [FVFG]
description: 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 introduction  sets out the frame for the subsequent discussions in this volume and summarizes the articles in which leading specialists in archaeobotany, economic zooarchaeology and palaeoanthropology discuss practices of food production and consumption in their social dimensions from the Mesolithic to the Early Iron Age in the Balkans.
contributor: Ivanova, Maria
contributor: Athanassov, Bogdan
contributor: Petrova, Vanya
contributor: Takor, Desislava
contributor: Stockhammer, Philipp W.
date: 2018
type: Book Section
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdokhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/4342/1/Stockhammer_et_al_Introduction_2018.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/propylaeumdok.00004342
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-propylaeumdok-43423
identifier:   Stockhammer, Philipp W. ; Athanassov, Bogdan ; Ivanova, Maria  (2018) Introduction: Social dimensions of food.   In: Ivanova, Maria ; Athanassov, Bogdan ; Petrova, Vanya ; Takor, Desislava ; Stockhammer, Philipp W. (Hrsgg.):  Social dimensions of food in the prehistoric Balkans.   Oxford, Philadelphia 2018, VII-XVII        
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/4342/
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language: eng