Ancient Economies of the Northern Aegean. Fifth to First Centuries BC
can include traces of such residues, but also provide direct evidence of how food was consciously stored up and preserved. The s ...
The growing number of country estates investigated in advance of development work provides a panorama of larger and smaller esta ...
We do not need to assume that the larger estates were operated by gang slave labour, although slave-operated facilities may have ...
coins, and offered much less extensive food storage facilities; and, on the other, spacious villa units in the south-east part o ...
about through the profitable combination of good soils and carefully selected vines with managerial expertise and, thereafter, c ...
Languedoc and Catalonia. Second, the concentration of large numbers of storage pits in and around Emporion reinforces the link b ...
containers. At Adjiyska Vodenitsa, near Vetren (ancient Pistiros), locally madepithoiwere used alongside underground pits. The c ...
came about in thefirst millenniumbchave only begun to attract the same level of scientific sampling and analysis during the last ...
boiled, but would have enhanced the blandness of any cereal dish with a richer taste. Olives were evidently processed elsewhere, ...
vintages. This is also true of Thrace, where grapes were domesticated early and where the abundance of wine-related iconography ...
differently configured. TheHomeric Hymn III to Apolloand theHomeric Hymn IV to Hermesboth refer to Pieria as the place where Her ...
irregular, but the challenge for sanctuaries in rural areas was not nearly as critical as it was for urbanized districts, partic ...
and how much they received. The larger the event, the less likely was the chance that all who were eligible would receive a port ...
certainly not a festival dinner. We should look afresh at the herds of animals handed over to Xenophon’s men as part-payment for ...
these. In this pit there was also a sheep’s skull, which could have been depositedfleshed; some mature sheep’s limb bones, parts ...
By contrast, another pit, located at the back of Building No.1, a public structure alongside the main east–west road of Pistiros ...
prior to disposal, is a phenomenon known more widely in continental Europe.^61 Marinefish and molluscs played a larger role in c ...
symbolic as well as realistic, although scholars have tended to focus on the possible significance of human portraits rather tha ...
This is hard to demonstrate, because more work needs to be done on faunal evidence to provide data comparable to what is now ava ...
8. Continuity and commemoration MONUMENTS, THE SACRED, AND SACRED LAND IN THE NORTH AEGEAN As Jeremy McInerney has underscored i ...
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