Ancient Foodways: Integrative Approaches to Understanding Subsistence and Society

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1. Ancient Foodways: Integrative Approaches to Understanding Subsistence and Society
I. Feasting and Politics
	2. Feeding the Ancestors? Ritual Economy and the Origins of Animal Management in Neolithic Southwest Asia
	3. Food, Inequality, and Conquest in Warring States China
	4. Commensal Politics and Identity Performance at Azoria, an Archaic City on Crete
	5. Ritual, Feasting, and Community Building on the Copacabana Peninsula, 1000 BC–AD 200
II. Sacrifice, Ritual, and Ancestors
	6. Food for the Dead and the Living: Contextualizing Biological Remains from Late Classic Maya Structures at K’axob, Belize
	7. From Subsistence to Sacrifice: Dogs for Dinner and Ritual in Classic Period Zapotec Communities
	8. A Mississippian Example of Harvest Renewal Ceremonialism
	9. Edible Metaphors and the Mississippian Phenomenon: A Case Study from the Black Warrior River Valley, Alabama, AD 1070–1250
III. Diet, Landscape, and Health
	10. Late Archaic and Woodland Foodways and Landscapes in Tuckaleechee Cove, East Tennessee
	11. Conflicted Landscapes: An Integrative Bioarchaeological and Archaeobotanical Study of the Forbush Creek Site, North Carolina
	12. Dietary Pathologies and Isotope Diversity in Imperial Rome (First to Fourth Centuries AD)
IV. Integrative Methods
	13. Employing Local Food Resources for Dietary Reconstruction via Stable Isotope Analysis
	14. The Effects of Foodways Practices on Nutritional Availability
	15. Connecting the Present to the Past: How Collaborative Archaeology Can Inform Us about Ancient Foodways
List of Contributors
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