Garden-hunting and food sharing during the Mississippian Period in the American South / Tanya M. Peres. Provisioning Bronze Age cities with wild animals : evidence from Acemhöyük, Turkey / Benjamin S. Arbuckle -- Distinguishing palatial from autonomous subsistence provisioning with zooarchaeological and isotopic analyses at Petsas House, Mycenae / Jacqueline S. Meier, Gypsy C. Price, and Kim S. Shelton -- The fat of the land : meat and dairy products in medieval Ireland / Fiona Beglane -- Feeding the great settlement : preliminary notes on the Shang animal economy / Roderick Campbell -- Aksumite foodways and economic strategies in the north Ethiopian highland / Helina S. Woldekiros -- Faunal remains and subsistence at Monte Albán, Oaxaca / Patricia Mart̕nez-Lira, Marcus Winter, Terry O'Connor, and Joaqu̕n Arroyo-Cabrales -- For love of the game : ancient Maya deer hunting as sport, symbolism, and sustenance / Sarah Newman -- Garden-hunting and food sharing during the Mississippian Period in the American South / Tanya M. Peres.
Summary:
"Offers new insight into the mechanisms involved in food provisioning for complex societies. Combining zooarchaeological and historical data from global case studies to analyze patterns in centralization and bureaucratic control, asymmetrical access and inequalities, and production-distribution-consumption dynamics of urban food provisioning and animal management"-- Provided by publisher.
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