After the Harvest. Storage Practices and Food Processing in Bronze Age Mesopotamia

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Paperback, xii + 146 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:53 b/w, 14 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503583785. Summary The reliance on grain and grain products is a key feature of many past societies, and this is particularly true of the Ancient Near East. The necessity of storing and processing foodstuffs encompassed political and social boundaries: food shaped identities and it was not by chance that, for the Mesopotamian mindset, civilization started with the consumption of bread and beer. At any managerial level, storage practices and food processing reflect the economic organization of a society, its control mechanisms, and its interdependent social structures. This volume includes eight papers by scholars of the Ancient Near East, who draw on a wide range of sources and methodologies, from (bio-)archaeological evidence to cuneiform texts, in order to explore what actually happened after the harvest in the shared horizon of Bronze Age Mesopotamia. The different case-studies gathered together here examine the impact of continuity - and crucially, of change - in the technical, economic, and social solutions that were adopted by people in response to the common needs of everyday life. This volume represents a dialogue between different perspectives and disciplines that simultaneously opens up new paths of research, at the same time as seeking to narrow the gaps in our understanding of this subject. TABLE OF CONTENTS Noemi Borrelli & Giulia Scazzosi, After the Harvest: An Introduction Klaus Wagensonner, Food: Its Gathering, Storing, and Consumption According to the Early Textual Record Alexander Pruß, Grain Storage and Grain Distribution at Tell Beydar Armando Bramanti, Before the Harvest? Land-grain Accounts in Early Dynastic Umma Noemi Borrelli, Institutional Grain Storage and Control Network in the Ur III Province of ?irsu/Laga? Tate Paulette, Archaeological Perspectives on Beer in Mesopotamia: Brewing Ingredients Melania Zingarello, Beer-making and Drinking Between Life and Death: A Fresh Look at the 'Four-Part Sets' Arkadiusz So?tysiak, Bioarchaeology of Food Production in Ancient Mesopotamia Giulia Scazzosi, 'Eat the Bread, Enkidu': The Role of Bakeries in Late Third to Early Second Millennium BC Mesopotamia 0 g.…

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Title
After the Harvest. Storage Practices and Food Processing in Bronze Age Mesopotamia
Author
Noemi Borrelli, Giulia Scazzosi (eds)
Publisher
, Brepols, 2020
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Soft cover

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