Partying in Prehistory : Social Drinking Behaviors in the Bronze Age Aegean, ca. 2600-1400 BCE

• All of us are familiar with different social occasions within our own cultures during which drinks of various kinds, whether alcoholic or not, are consumed. But none of us has experienced what it may have been like to drink together between a hundred and a hundred and fifty generations ago in a pre-industrial, prehistoric social setting. So how do archaeologists go about reconstructing the drinking behaviors of such long-past societies, and how believable can their reconstructions be?

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora -- Antikvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities -- Classical Archaeology and Ancient History (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Aegean

Bronze Age

drinking

vessels

pottery

Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

Antikens kultur och samhällsliv

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

ovr (subject category)