FOOD AND COOKING IN THE UNETICE CULTURE
FOOD AND COOKING IN THE UNETICE CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: Food comprises an intrinsic part of our cultural profile. It encompasses everything that is important to people; it marks social differences and strengthens social bonds. Common to all people, yet it can signify very different things from table to table. In this paper I focus on food culture in Early Bronze Age Central Europe, with special reference to the classic phase of the Unetice Culture, covering the territories of modern Germany, western Poland and the Czech Republic approximately 1900-1700 B.C While the results of recently completed isotopic analyses of diet (l3C,l3N) will be published in a separate publication, this article covers culturally-based aspects of cooking, seasoning, lipid analyses on pottery, drinking habits and sweets consumption.

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