The Taste of Belonging: Food Practices and Ethnic Identity in the Northern Levant during Iron Age I

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction: Ethnic identity as an object of study

Ethnic identity: one of many alternative social aspects of the past

Terminology: ethnic identity and ethnic group

Introduction to this study

Chapter 1: Research Context

Area of study

Period of study

Political organisation in the LB and EIA in northern Levant

Chapter 2: Theoretical framework and methodological approach

Critical review of the history of research on ethnic identities

Critical review of the study of ethnic identity in the Levant during the LBA and EIA

Theoretical approach of the present book

Ethnic identity through practical action

Methodological outreach

Chapter 3: Food-related practices in LBA-IA I northern

Pottery vessels and practical function

Cooking

Consumption

Mixing and serving

Pouring and serving

Transport

Storage

Drawing and pouring

Straining

Chapter 4: Data and reconstruction of practices

History of research and selection of case studies

Data synchronisation for comparative analysis

Chapter 5: Comparative analysis and discussion

Spatial palimpsests 0-1

Spatial palimpsest 2

Spatial palimpsest 3

Chapter 6: Final Discussion and Conclusions

References

About the Author

Dimitris Papageorgiou holds a PhD at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece. He has been a member of numerous archaeological projects in Mainland Greece, and from 2022 onwards, he is field supervisor at the NKUA’s excavation project at Paleapaphos Marchello in Cyprus. He has published papers in conference proceedings and journals, focusing on ethnic identity and socio-political organization during Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean, investigated through foodways, burial practices, and landscape analysis. He recently initiated a postdoctoral research project (2026-2028) at the NKUA, focusing on revisiting the shaft graves phenomenon in 12th-11th century BCE Cyprus through the analysis of the funerary landscape of Palaepaphos area.