Eating and Drinking Along Ancient Roads and Rivers presents a diverse collection of research articles exploring food production, consumption, and cultural significance from the Roman to early Medieval period. Through archaeological, archaeometric, and historical approaches, the contributions examine how diet shaped identity, trade, and social structures across different regions.
Topics covered include:
Material culture of food consumption, such as pottery, amphorae, and bronze vessels
Gastronomic practices, including Roman dining traditions and food preparation
Scientific analyses, such as stable isotope studies and dietary reconstructions
Food-related customs and beliefs, including funerary practices and religious influences
Social and economic aspects, such as trade networks, mobility, and food distribution
The articles provide insights into ancient dietary habits, offering a broad perspective on how food influenced daily life, health, and cultural interactions along roads and rivers.
Introduction
List of contributors
Food for the Living and for the Dead: Pottery of Roman Period Dolenjska
Kaja Stemberger Flegar and Ana Kovai
A Gastronomic Guide through Viminacium: How to Eat like a Roman Angelina
Raikovi Savi
A Cake Mould from Istria Alka Starac
Pane Vinv Radic Pavperis Cena Verena Perko and Kaja Stemberger Flegar
Early Imperial Amphorae from the Koevarjev vrt Site in Vrhnika (Nauportus)
Tina Berden
From the Field to the Table: Food Production Evidence from Late Antique Pits
from Ilok Palace of the Dukes of Ilok (Eastern Croatia) Kristina Jelini
Vukovi, Asja Tonc, Antonela Barbir and Marko Dizdar
Bronze Vessels and Changing Dining Patterns in Late Antique Britain Jason
Lundock
Food To Go Anita Rapan Papea
Multi-Tissue Interpretations of Health and Paleodiet in Avar Period
arengrad, Croatia J. Marla Toyne, Mario Cari, Andrea Rimpf, Jonathan
Barkmeier and Mario Novak
An Overview of Stable Isotope Analyses of Antique and Early Medieval Skeletal
Remains from Croatia eljka Bedi
Artificial Cranial Deformation and Dietary Habits of a Child from the Great
Migration Period (Serbia) Ksenija Djuki, Veda Mikainovi, Milutin Mii
and Viktorija Uzelac
Fish on the Bishops Table. The Analysis of Data Regarding the Procurement
and Consumption of Fish by Oswald Túz, Bishop of Zagreb Sebastijan Stingl
Roman Food and the Popularisation of Science Ivana Oani Rogulji
Ivana Oani Rogulji works as an archaeologist (Senior Research Associate) at the Institue of Archaeology, Zagreb, specialising in the classical period, with a particular focus on instrumentum domesticum, the history of food, remote sensing and communications. She works on The Database of Antique Archaeological Sites of the Republic of Croatia. She is the Principal Investigator of the project Synergy of Diversity: Archeology of Landscape and Technological Traditions in Continental and Adriatic Croatia (SirAkt).
eljka Bedi works as a Research Associate in the Centre for Applied Bioanthropology at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Zagreb. Her main areas of research cover bioarchaeology, paleopathology, trauma analysis, paleodontology and contagious diseases in archaeological populations and she is a member of several scientific organisations relating to these fields. Her research output includes, among others, scientific papers, book chapters and a school textbook.
Angelina Raikovi Savi is a Senior Research Associate at the Institue of Archaeology, Belgrade, principally focused on the project Viminacium, Roman city and Legionary Fort. Her interests relate primarily to Roman pottery and the use of scientific techniques for material analysis.
