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Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Diet: General

[ see also under “Physical Anthropology of Human Remains” for reconstructions of diet by way of stable isotaope analyses]


P. P. Betancourt and R. Hope Simpson, "The Agricultural System of Bronze Age Pseira," Cretan Studies 3(1992) 47-54.

A. Burford, Land and Labor in the Greek World (Baltimore 1993).

T. L. Bray (ed.), The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires (New York 2003).

K. S. Christakis, "Pithoi and Food Storage in Neopalatial Crete: A Domestic Perspective," World Archaeology 31(1999) 1-20.

A. Dalby, Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece (London 1996).

P. De Fidio, “Dieta e gestione delle risorse alimentari in età micenea,” in O. Longo and P. Scarpi (eds.), Homo edens. Regimi, miti e pratiche dell’alimentazione nella civiltà del Mediterraneo (Milano 1989) 193-203.

H. Forbes, "The Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Ancient Greek Agriculture," in B. Wells (ed.),  Agriculture in Ancient Greece (Stockholm 1992) 87-101.

L. Foxhall, "Bronze to Iron: Agricultural Systems and Political Structures in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece," BSA 90(1995) 239-250.

T. W. Gallant, Risk and Survival in Ancient Greece: Reconstructing the Rural Domestic Economy (Cambridge 1991).

P. Garnsey, Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World. Responses to Risk and Crisis (Cambridge 1988).

H. J. Greenfield and K. D. Fowler, The Secondary Products Revolution in Macedonia: The Zooarchaeological Remains from Megalo Nisi Galanis, a Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age Site in Greek Macedonia [BAR International 1414] (Oxford 2005).

P. Halstead, “Farming and Feasting in the Neolithic of Greece: The Ecological Context of Fighting with Food,” Documenta Praehistorica 31(2004) 151-161.

P. Halstead, “Sheep in the Garden: The Integration of Crop and Livestock Husbandry in Early Farming Regimes of Greece and Southern Europe,” in D. Serjeantson and D. Field (eds.), Animals in the Neolithic of Britain and Europe (Oxford 2006) 42-55.

Y. Hamilakis, "Consumption Patterns, Factional Competition and Political Developments in Bronze Age Crete," BICS 42(1997-98) 233-234.

Y. Hamilakis, "Eating the Dead: Mortuary Feasting and the Politics of Memory in Aegean Bronze Age Societies," in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Sheffield 1998) 115-132.

Y. Hamilakis, "The Anthropology of Food and Drink Consumption and the Aegean Archaeology," in S. Vaughan and W. Coulson (eds.), Paleodiet in the Aegean (Oxford 2000) 59-67.

V. D. Hanson, The Other Greeks (New York 1994).

S. Isager and J. E. Skydsgaard, Ancient Greek Agriculture: An Introduction (London/New York 1992).

E. Kotjabopoulou, Y. Hamilakis, P. Halstead, C. Gamble, and P. Elefanti (eds.), Zooarchaeology in Greece: Recent Advances [BSA Studies 9] (London 2003).

C. Lichter (ed.), How Did Farming Reach Europe? Anatolian-European Relations from the Second Half of the 7th through the First Half of the 6th Millennium Cal BC [Proceedings of the International Workshop Istanbul, 20-22 May 2004] [Byzas 2] (Ankara 2005).

C. Mee and J. Renard (eds.), Cooking Up the Past: Food and Culinary Practices in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford 2007).

F. Megaloudi, Plants and Diet in Greece from Neolithic to Classic Periods: The Archaeobotanical Remains [BAR-IS 1516] (Oxford 2006).

S. E. Peterson, Retrieval of Materials with Water Separation Machines [INSTAP Archaeological Excavation Manual 1] (Philadelphia 2009).

F. R. Riley, The Role of the Traditional Mediterranean Diet in the Development of Minoan Crete: Archaeological, Nutritional and Biochemical Evidence [BAR-IS 810] (Oxford 1999).

R. Sallares, The Ecology of the Ancient Greek World (Ithaca 1991).

A. Sarpaki, "The Study of Palaeodiet in the Aegean: Food for Thought," in S. Vaughan and W. Coulson (eds.), Paleodiet in the Aegean (Oxford 2000) 115-121.

Y. Tzedakis and H. Martlew (eds.), Minoans and Mycenaeans: Flavours of Their Time (Athens 1999).

S. Vaughan and W. Coulson (eds.), Paleodiet in the Aegean (Oxford 2000).

K. F. Vickery, Food in Early Greece (Chicago 1936).

P. Warren, “Cretan Food through Five Millennia,” Briciaka: A Tribute to W. C. Brice [Cretan Studies 9] (Amsterdam 2003) 271-284.

B. Wells (ed.), Agriculture in Ancient Greece (Stockholm 1992).

C. R. Whittaker (ed.), Pastoral Economies in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge 1988).