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Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations 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 - Helene WHITTAKER, The Role of Drinking in Religious Ritual in the Mycenaean Period - Elizabeth SHANK, Decorated Dining Halls - Gullog 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 - Bartlomiej 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 A 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 - Jorg 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