Phrygian Cuisine at Kerkenes: a synthesis of ceramic and botanical evidence for food storage and cooking

Summary

At the Iron Age site of Kerkenes in Central Turkey, researchers are using different analytical methods to study cooking and food preparation. Evidence for cooking pots and other ceramic containers used for preparing, storing, and cooking food are found together with a variety of botanical remains. A new project at the site initiated the complementary analysis of ceramic container production and use with plant preparation, storage, and consumption. Situating these data in context, taking advantage of a site-wide destruction preserving features related to cooking, tools related to food preparation, and faunal remains, this project is able to discover new and complementary information on cooking and food preparation. These complementary analyses will make it possible to learn more about the choices people made in the past and discover insights about the different social practices at this large urban center.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• Some Like It Hot: Analytic Diversity and Complementarity in the Exploration of Past Cooking and Cuisine

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Abstract Id(s): 12162