Cooking with plants in ancient Europe and beyond Interdisciplinary approaches to the archaeology of plant foods

• Other Authors: Valamoti, Soultana Maria (Editor), Dimoula, Anastasia (Editor), Ntinou, Maria (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2022
• Subjects: Prehistoric archaeology; ancient cuisine; archaeobotany; petrographic analysis; usewear analysis; food remains; cooking facilities; prehistory; edible plants; modern landraces; experimental archaeology; ethnoarchaeology
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Plants have constituted the basis of human subsistence. This volume focuses on plant food ingredients that were consumed by the members of past societies and on the ways these ingredients were transformed into food. The thirty chapters of this book unfold the story of culinary transformation of cere...