Diet, Cooking and Cosmology - Interpreting the Evidence from Bronze Age Plant Macro fossils

The aim of the article is to discuss how the composition of Bronze Age macrofossil samples reflects different aspects of daily life like diet and cooking. The article argues that the increasing weed content in the Late Bronze Age macrofossil samples should partly be regarded as a new resource that was used in the cooking process. The contemporaneous increase in hulled barley at the expense of naked barley and wheat, might reflect a diminished interest in baking leavened bread and a stronger preference for cooked cereal-based dishes. These changes in the domestic sphere should be regarded as intimately connected with changes in the Late Bronze Age cosmology, in particular with the development of the Urnfield culture.

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‘Gifts for the gods’: lake-dwellers' macabre remedies against floods in the Central European Bronze Age

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00101115 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 88 (340) ◽

pp. 456-469 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Francesco Menotti ◽

Benjamin Jennings ◽

Hartmut Gollnisch-Moos

Keyword(s):

Environmental Change ◽

Bronze Age ◽

Lake Level ◽

Daily Life ◽

Alpine Region ◽

Rich Source ◽

Late Bronze Age ◽

Central European

The lake-dwellings of the Circum-Alpine region have long been a rich source of detailed information about daily life in Bronze Age Europe, but their location made them vulnerable to changes in climate and lake level. At several Late Bronze Age examples, skulls of children were found at the edge of the lake settlement, close to the encircling palisade. Several of the children had suffered violent deaths, through blows to the head from axes or blunt instruments. They do not appear to have been human sacrifices, but the skulls may nonetheless have been offerings to the gods by communities faced with the threat of environmental change.

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Enslaved People in an Ancient Syrian City

Journal of Global Slavery ◽

10.1163/2405836x-00301005 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (1-2) ◽

pp. 68-91

Author(s):

Luigi Turri

Keyword(s):

Social Structure ◽

Bronze Age ◽

Daily Life ◽

Late Bronze Age ◽

Public And Private ◽

Modern City ◽

The Public ◽

Amount Of Information ◽

A Site

Abstract The cuneiform documents found at Tell Atchana, a site on the River Orontes not far from modern city of Antakya, are of pivotal importance for our knowledge of western Syrian society during the Middle and Late Bronze Age. These tablets from ancient Alalakh provide data relating to the city’s daily life and its social structure and administration. Compared to the large amount of information regarding free citizens, the material concerning slave laborers and menial workers—which is the topic of this article—is scanty and not always easy to interpret, for both the public and private sectors.

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The Farming Economy in South and Central Sweden during the Bronze Age - A Study Based on Carbonised Botanical Evidence

Current Swedish Archaeology ◽

10.37718/csa.1998.05 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 63-71

Author(s):

Stefan Gustafsson

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

Early Bronze Age ◽

Prehistoric Agriculture ◽

Naked Barley ◽

Important Crop ◽

The Bronze Age ◽

Hulled Barley

The article provides a survey of carbonised seed finds in south and central Sweden which can be attributed to the Swedish Bronze Age, 1800—500 B.C. This period must be considered one of the most dynamic with regard to prehistoric agriculture. The material has been collected at prehistoric dwelling sites and largely consists of household refuse. During the Early Bronze Age agriculture was based on speltoid wheat's and naked barley. Around 1000 B.C. the speltoid wheats and the naked barley decline strongly, while hulled barley takes over as the most important crop. This shift in the choice of crop indicates the introduction of agricultural fertilization and systems with permanent, manured fields.

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The Concept of Palestine: The Conception Of Palestine from the Late Bronze Age to the Modern Period

Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies ◽

10.3366/hlps.2016.0140 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 143-202 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nur Masalha

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

Old Testament ◽

Political Geography ◽

Classical Antiquity ◽

Late Bronze Age ◽

Collective Consciousness ◽

Ancient History ◽

Master Narratives ◽

The Bible ◽

School History

The Concept of Palestine is deeply rooted in the collective consciousness of the indigenous people of Palestine and the multicultural ancient past. The name Palestine is the most commonly used from the Late Bronze Age (from 1300 BCE) onwards. The name Palestine is evident in countless histories, inscriptions, maps and coins from antiquity, medieval and modern Palestine. From the Late Bronze Age onwards the names used for the region, such as Djahi, Retenu and Cana'an, all gave way to the name Palestine. Throughout Classical Antiquity the name Palestine remained the most common and during the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods the concept and political geography of Palestine acquired official administrative status. This article sets out to explain the historical origins of the concept of Palestine and the evolving political geography of the country. It will seek to demonstrate how the name ‘Palestine’ (rather than the term ‘Cana'an’) was most commonly and formally used in ancient history. It argues that the legend of the ‘Israelites’ conquest of Cana'an’ and other master narratives of the Bible evolved across many centuries; they are myth-narratives, not evidence-based accurate history. It further argues that academic and school history curricula should be based on historical facts/empirical evidence/archaeological discoveries – not on master narratives or Old Testament sacred-history and religio-ideological constructs.

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