Ancient cookware from the Levant : an ethnoarchaeological perspective /

Main Author: London, Gloria
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sheffield, UK : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2016.
Series:Worlds of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean
Subjects:
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245 1 0 |a Ancient cookware from the Levant :  |b an ethnoarchaeological perspective /  |c Gloria London. 
260 |a Sheffield, UK :  |b Equinox Publishing Ltd,  |c 2016. 
300 |a xiv, 312 p. :  |b ill., maps ;  |c 28 cm. 
490 1 |a Worlds of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Part I. Traditional ceramics in the Levant and Cyprus -- The Levantine Corridor and Cyprus : geographical parameters -- Ancient data sources : excavations and ancient texts -- Modern data sources : government reports, early visitors, and ethnoarchaeology -- Ceramic ethnoarchaeology -- Clay deposits, traditional mining, and clay preparation in Cyprus -- Manufacturing technique for Cypriot red clays -- Traditional firing techniques for ceramics -- How to treat clay pots prior to use with food -- Making breads, roasting grains, and cooking other food -- Foods processed, preserved, distilled, or transported in ceramics -- How to clean clay pots -- Part II. Ancient manufacturing techniques for cookware -- Ancient clay containers to process, cook, and preserve food -- Ancient manufacturing techniques and clay bodes -- Part III. Cookware through the ages -- Neolithic and Chalcolithic cookware -- Early Bronze Age cookware -- Middle and late Bronze Age cookware -- Iron Age and Persian era cookware -- Classical era cookware -- Medieval era cookware -- Late Ottoman/Mandate and recent wheel-thrown ceramics -- Late Ottoman/Mandate and recent handmade ceramics -- Implications of ethnoarchaeological studies for ancient cookware -- Glossary. 
650 0 |a Pottery, Ancient  |z Middle East 
650 0 |a Pottery, Ancient  |z Cyprus 
650 0 |a Cookware  |x History  |y To 1500.  |z Middle East 
650 0 |a Cookware  |x History  |y To 1500.  |z Cyprus 
650 0 |a Cooking  |x History  |y To 1500.  |z Middle East 
650 0 |a Cooking  |x History  |y To 1500.  |z Cyprus 
650 0 |a Ethnoarchaeology  |z Middle East 
650 0 |a Ethnoarchaeology  |z Cyprus 
651 0 |a Middle East  |x Antiquities 
651 0 |a Cyprus  |x Antiquities 
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