KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Yannis HAMILAKIS
Time, Performance, and the Production of a Mnemonic Record: From Feasting to an Archaeology of Eating and Drinking

I. FEASTS FOR THE GODS: FEASTING PRACTICES AND RELIGIOUS ASPECTS

Jennifer WILSON
What Were the Women Doing While the Men Were Eating and Drinking?
The Evidence of the Frescoes

Anna SIMANDIRAKI
The Minoan Body as a Feast

Bernice JONES
Anthropomorphic Vessels at the Feast: Evidence for Dress or Ornament?

Brent DAVIS
Libation and the Minoan Feast

David COLLARD
Possible Alternatives to Alcohol: The Contextual Analysis of Poppy-shaped Jugs from Cyprus and the Aegean

Dora CONSTANTINIDIS
From Fields to Feasts: Interpreting Aegean Architecture and Iconography in Relation to Feast Preparations

Janice L. CROWLEY
In Honour of the Gods – But Which Gods? Identifying Deities in Aegean Glyptic

Helène WHITTAKER
The Role of Drinking in Religious Ritual in the Mycenaean Period

Elizabeth SHANK
Decorated Dining Halls

Gullög NORDQUIST
Feasting: Participation and Performance

II. FEASTS FOR THE HUMANS: COOKING, FOOD AND WINE

Sarah P. MORRIS
Wine and Water in the Bronze Age: Fermenting, Mixing and Serving Vessels

Thomas M. BROGAN and Andrew J. KOH
Feasting at Mochlos? New Evidence for Wine Production, Storage and Consumption from a Bronze Age Harbor Town on Crete?

Rachel FOX
Tastes, Smells and Spaces: Sensory Perceptions and Mycenaean Palatial Feasting

Bartłomiej LIS
Cooked Food in the Mycenaean Feast – Evidence from the Cooking Pots

Julie HRUBY
You Are How You Eat: Mycenaean Class and Cuisine

IIIa. FEASTS IN THE AEGEAN LANDSCAPE: THE EVIDENCE FROM CRETE

Philip P. BETANCOURT, David S. Reese, Louise L. Verstegen, and Susan C. Ferrence
Feasts for the Dead: Evidence from the Ossuary at Hagios Charalambos

Luca GIRELLA
Feasts in ‘transition’? An overview of feasting practices during MM III in Crete

Loeta TYREE, Athanasia KANTA and Harriet Lewis ROBINSON
Evidence for Ritual Eating and Drinking: A View from Skoteino Cave

Judith REID
Dinnertime at Kato Zakro

Jan DRIESSEN, Alexandre FARNOUX and Charlotte LANGOHR
Favissae. Feasting Pits in LM III

Quentin LETESSON and Jan DRIESSEN
From ‘Party’ to ‘Ritual’ to ‘Ruin’ in Minoan Crete: The Spatial Context of Feasting

IIIb. FEASTS IN THE AEGEAN LANDSCAPE: THE EVIDENCE FROM THE MAINLAND

Jennifer O’NEILL
Utility and Metaphor: The Design of The House of Tiles at Lerna

Kim S. SHELTON
Drinking, Toasting, Consumption and Libation: Late Helladic IIIA Pottery and a Cup for Every Occasion

Salvatore VITALE
Ritual Drinking and Eating at LH IIIA2 Early Mitrou, East Lokris. Evidence for Mycenaean Feasting Activities?

Gisela WALBERG and David S. REESE
Feasting at Midea

IV. IMAGES OF THE FEAST: ICONOGRAPHY

Ingo PINI
Are there any Representations of Feasting in the Aegean Bronze Age?

Fritz BLAKOLMER
Processions in Aegean Iconography II: Who are the Participants?

Susan C. FERRENCE
Is There Iconography of the Minoan Feast?

Marcia NUGENT
Picturing the Feast – Recipes as Art. Botanic Motifs of the Late Bronze Age Cycladic Islands

V. FEASTS ABROAD: COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE FROM THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

Jennifer M. WEBB and David FRANKEL
Fine Ware Ceramics, Consumption and Commensality: Mechanisms of Horizontal and Vertical Integration in Early Bronze Age Cyprus

Kathryn O. ERIKSSON
Feasting as Part of the Multiculturalism of Late Bronze Age Cyprus

Alison SOUTH
Feasting in Cyprus: a View from Kalavasos

Louise A. HITCHCOCK
Architectures of Feasting

Karen Polinger FOSTER
A Taste for the Exotic

Ann E. KILLEBREW and Justin LEV-TOV
Early Iron Age Feasting and Cuisine: an Indicator of Philistine-Aegean Connectivity?

Aren M. MAEIR
Aegean Feasting and other Indo-European Elements in the Philistine Household

Assaf YASUR-LANDAU
Hard to Handle: Aspects of Organization in Aegean and Near Eastern Feasts

VI. FEASTS IN THE TEXTS: THE WRITTEN RECORD

John G. YOUNGER
Food Rations and Portions in Cretan Hieroglyphic Documents

Ioannis FAPPAS
The Use of Perfumed Oils during Feasting Activities: A Comparison of Mycenaean and Near Eastern Written Sources

Stavroula NIKOLOUDIS
Bulls and Belonging: Another Look at PY Cn 3

Thomas G. PALAIMA
The Significance of Mycenaean Words Relating to Meals, Meal Rituals, and Food

Vassilis P. PETRAKIS
E-ke-ra₂-wo ≠ wa-na-ka: The Implications of a Probable Non-Identification for Pylian Feasting and Politics

Cynthia W. SHELMERDINE
Host and Guest at a Mycenaean Feast

Jörg WEILHARTNER
Some Observations on the Commodities in the Linear B Tablets Referring to Sacrificial Banquets

AFTERTHOUGHT

Thomas G. PALAIMA
A New Linear B Inscription from the Land Down Under: AUS HO(ME) Bo 2008