Food is the foundation upon which societies are built. It is a means of survival, a source of wealth and prosperity and can be used as a means of social display. In Iron Age Atlantic Scotland, a wide range of food resources were open to exploitation. Among these, barley is likel…
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Megaliths have figured prominently in discussions of sociopolitical complexity and ideological systems in prehistoric societies, leading to a very wide range of interpretations concerning their significance. What has limited these discussions is the paucity of ethnoarchaeologica…
This study is concerned with "eating" metaphors employed in ancient Jewish literature to describe a visionary encounter with God. "Feasting one's eyes" upon the divine presence or receiving nourishment from the splendor of the shekhinah is a motif that appears frequently both in…