Doumas, Christos

Food for thought : dietary habits in the Bronze Age city at Akrotiri, Thera (3200-1600 BC) / Christos G. Doumas. - Athens : Society for the Promotion of Studies on Prehistoric Thera, 2014. - 65 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"In this book an attempt is made to reconstruct the diet of the prehistoric Therans, primarily through the remains of foodstuffs found in the ruins at Akrotiri, but also indirectly from the depictions of pf plants and animals in vase-painting and the wall-paintings. The ways in which the inhabitants of the prehistoric city prepared and consumed their food and drink are sought through the various related constructions cooking vessels and tableware." -- Publisher's description.

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Food habits--History--To 1500
Food--History
Civilization, Ancient


Akroterion (Greece)--Antiquities
Thera Island (Greece)--Antiquities

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