Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture

Michela Spataro is a scientist in the Department: Conservation and Scientific Research at the British Museum. She is particularly interested in the provenance of ceramic raw materials (clays and mineral inclusions) which can indicate where a pot was manufactured, and therefore shed light on patterns of pottery production and trade in the past. Alexandra Villing is curator of Greek pottery and terracotta figurines at the British Museum. Her special interests are Greek pottery and its uses and decoration; the relations between Greece and Egypt and the Near East; religion and mythology; iconography; and daily life.

Preface
List of contributors

1 Investigating ceramics, cuisine and culture– past, present and future
Alexandra Villing and Michela Spataro

Part I. How to make a perfect cooking pot: technical choices between tradition and innovation

2 Materials choices in utilitarian pottery: kitchen wares in the Berbati valley, Greece
Ian Whitbread

3 Home-made recipes: tradition and innovation in Bronze Age cooking pots from Akrotiri, Thera
Noémi S. Müller, Vassilis Kilikoglou and Peter M. Day

4 Heating efficiency of archaeological cooking vessels: computer models and simulations of heat transfer
Anno Hein, Noémi S. Müller and Vassilis Kilikoglou

5 A contextual ethnography of cooking vessel production at Pòrtol, Mallorca (Balearic islands)
Peter M. Day, Miguel A. Cau Ontiveros, Catalina Mas-Florit and Noémi S. Müller

6 Aegina: an important centre of production of cooking pottery from the prehistoric to the historic era
Walter Gauss, Gudrun Klebinder-Gauss, Evangelia Kiriatzi, Areti Pentedeka and Myrto Georgakopoulou

7 True grit: production and exchange of cooking wares in the 9th-century BC Aegean
James Whitley and Marie-Claude Boileau

8 Cooking wares between the Hellenistic and Roman world: artifact variability, technological choice and practice
Kristina Winther-Jacobsen

Part 2. Lifting the lid on ancient cuisine: understanding cooking as socio-economic practice

9 From cooking pots to cuisine. Limitations and perspectives of a ceramic-based approach
Bartłomiej Lis

10 Cooking up new perspectives for Late Minoan IB domestic activities: an experimental approach to understanding the possibilities and the probabilities of using ancient cooking pots
Jerolyn E. Morrison, Chrysa Sofianou, Thomas M. Brogan, Jad Alyounis and Dimitra Mylona

11 Reading the Residues: The Use of Chromatographic and Mass Spectromic Techniques for Reconstructing the Role of Kitchen and other Domestic Vessels in Roman Antiquity
Lucy J. E. Cramp and Richard P. Evershed

12 Cooking pots in ancient and Late Antique cookbooks
Andrew James Donnelly

13 Unchanging tastes: first steps towards the correlation of the evidence for food preparation and consumption in ancient Laconia
Elizabeth Langridge-Noti

14 Fuel, cuisine and food preparation in Etruria and Latium: cooking stands as evidence for change
Laura M. Banducci

15 Vivaria in doliis: a cultural and social marker of Romanised society?
Laure G. Meulemans

Part 3. New pots, new recipes? Changing tastes, culinary identities and cross-cultural encounters

16 The Athenian kitchen from the Early Iron Age to the Hellenistic period
Susan I. Rotroff

17 Mediterranean-type cooking ware in indigenous contexts during the Iron Age in southern Gaul (6th–3rd centuries BC)
Anne-Marie Curé

18 Forms of adoption, adaptation and resistance in the cooking ware repertoire of Lucania, South Italy (8th–3rd centuries BC)
Alessandro Quercia

19 Pots and bones: cuisine in Roman Tuscany– the example of Il Monte
Günther Schörner

20 Culinary clash in northwestern Iberia at the height of the Roman Empire: the Castro do Vieito case study
António JoséMarques da Silva

21 Coarse kitchen and household pottery as an indicator for Egyptian presence in the southern Levant: a diachronic perspective
Alexander Fantalkin

22 Kitchen pottery from Iron Age Cyprus: diachronic and social perspectives
Sabine Fourrier

Postscript: Looking beyond antiquity

23 Aegean cooking pots in the modern era (1700–1950)
Yorgos Kyriakopoulos

Index