Plant Food Processing Tools at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1803270926 ISBN 13 : 9781803270920

Editeur : Archaeopress Archaeology, 2021

Synopsis

'Plant Food Processing Tools at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe' reconstructs plant food processing at this key Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600-8000 BC) site, with an emphasis on cereals, legumes and herbs as food sources, on grinding and pounding tools for their processing, and on the vessels implied in the consumption of meals and beverages. Functional investigations on grinding and pounding tools and on stone containers through use-wear and residue analyses are at the core of the book. Their corpus amounts to more than 7000 objects, constituting thus the largest collection published so far from the Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia. The spectrum of tools and of processed plants is very broad, but porridges made of cereals, legumes and herbs, and beers predominate over bread-like food. The find contexts show that cooking took place around the well-known monumental buildings, while the large quantity of tools suggests feasting in addition to daily meals.

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À propos de l'auteur

Laura Dietrich is affiliated researcher at the German Archaeological Institute and lecturer at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. She is specialized in use-wear and residue analyses on stone tools, in food archaeology and generally the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Europe and Southwestern Asia. She has worked at Göbekli Tepe since 2007 and on stone finds since 2016.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1803270926
• ISBN 13: 9781803270920
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 246
• Éditeur: Dietrich Laura
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• Personne responsable: non disponible