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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Brothwell, Don R. Food in antiquity. New York : Praeger, [1969] (OCoLC)580656079 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Don R Brothwell; Patricia Brothwell |
| OCLC Number: | 13207 |
| Description: | 248 p. : ill., maps. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The population explosion -- Fire and food -- Sources of data -- Chemical analysis -- Man eats man -- The mammals -- Dairy produce -- Birds -- Reptiles and amphibians -- Fish -- Mollusks -- Insects -- Honey -- Other sources of sugar -- Fungi -- Cereal crops -- Pulses -- roots and tubers --green vegetables -- Salad plants -- Gourds, melons, squashes -- Berry and tree fruits -- Citrus fruits -- Dates, figs, grapes -- Nuts -- Olives and cooking oils -- Herbs, spices and condiments -- Drinks -- Diet and disease -- Famine -- Plant and animal diseases -- Vitamin deficiency -- Other dietary disorders -- Skeletal evidence -- Infant feeding -- Food poisoning and adulteration -- Bibliography -- The plates -- Notes on the plates -- Index. |
| Series Title: | Ancient peoples and places series, v. 66. |
| Responsibility: | [by] Don and Patricia Brothwell. |
Table of Contents:
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The population explosion -- Fire and food -- Sources of data -- Chemical analysis -- Man eats man -- The mammals -- Dairy produce -- Birds -- Reptiles and amphibians -- Fish -- Mollusks -- Insects -- Honey -- Other sources of sugar -- Fungi -- Cereal crops -- Pulses -- roots and tubers --green vegetables -- Salad plants -- Gourds, melons, squashes -- Berry and tree fruits -- Citrus fruits -- Dates, figs, grapes -- Nuts -- Olives and cooking oils -- Herbs, spices and condiments -- Drinks -- Diet and disease -- Famine -- Plant and animal diseases -- Vitamin deficiency -- Other dietary disorders -- Skeletal evidence -- Infant feeding -- Food poisoning and adulteration -- Bibliography -- The plates -- Notes on the plates -- Index.
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