Consuming passions and patterns of consumption

Abstract

Introduction: Patterning Data and Consuming Theory (N Milner and P Miracle) Cooking in Zooarchaeology: Is this Issue Still Raw? (S Monton Subias) Food, Status and Social Hierarchy (A Grant) The Distribution of Meat in a Hierarchical Society: the Irish Evidence (F McCormick) A Passion for Pork: Meat Consumption at the British Late Neolithic Site of Durrington Walls (U Albarella and D Serjeantson) Bone Fracture and Within-bone Nutrients: an Experimentally Based Method for Investigating Levels of Marrow Extraction (A K Outram) Mesolithic Meals from Mesolithic Middens (P Miracle) Oysters, Cockles and Kitchenmiddens: Changing Practices at the Mesolithic/Neolithic Transition (N Milner) Prudent Producers and Concerned Consumers: Ethnographic and Historical Observations on Staple Storage and Urban Consumer Behaviour (H Forbes) Archaeological Correlates of Ideological Activity: Food Taboos and Spirit-animals in an Amazonian Hunter-gatherer Society (G G Politis and N J Saunders) Conclusion: Eating for Calories or for Company? Concluding Remarks on Consuming Passions (M Jones).