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Ancient Cookware from the Levant: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective (Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean)
Gloria London
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Description for Ancient Cookware from the Levant: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective (Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean)
Hardcover. Ancient Cookware from the Levant begins with a description of five data sources: excavations, ancient and medieval texts, 20th century government reports, early accounts of potters, and ethnoarchaeological studies. The final section focuses on the shape, style, and manufacture of cookware for the past 12,000 years. Series: Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 maps and 68 figures. BIC Classification: 1FB; HDDC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 275 x 210. Weight in Grams: 213.
Ancient clay cooking pots in the southern Levant are unappealing, rough pots that are not easily connected to meals known from ancient writings or iconographic representations. To narrow the gap between excavated sherds and ancient meals, the approach adopted in this study starts by learning how food traditionally was processed, preserved, cooked, stored, and transported in clay containers. This research is based on the cookware and culinary practices in traditional societies in Cyprus and the Levant, where people still make pots by hand.Clay pots were not only to cook or hold foods. Their absorbent and permeable walls stored memories of ... Read more
Ancient clay cooking pots in the southern Levant are unappealing, rough pots that are not easily connected to meals known from ancient writings or iconographic representations. To narrow the gap between excavated sherds and ancient meals, the approach adopted in this study starts by learning how food traditionally was processed, preserved, cooked, stored, and transported in clay containers. This research is based on the cookware and culinary practices in traditional societies in Cyprus and the Levant, where people still make pots by hand.Clay pots were not only to cook or hold foods. Their absorbent and permeable walls stored memories of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Equinox Publishing
Condition
New
Series
Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781791998
SKU
V9781781791998
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Ref
99-2
About Gloria London
Gloria London received her Ph.D from the University of Arizona in 1985. She is the author of Traditional Pottery of Cyrpus (1990, Philipp von Zabern) and Ancient Ammonites and Modern Arabs (1997, ACOR).
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