Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:418

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX418

Authors:
Sardà Seuma, Samuel

Abstract:
Ritual consumption practices in the lower Ebro bassin (s. VII-VI BC). Commensality, ideology and social change.The aim of this work is to study the relational practices that explain the social functioning of the lower Ebro basin communities during the first Iron Age (650-550 BC). Our starting point is that, in small-scale societies, commensality rituals are one of the contexts where the ideological strategies are usually materialized in a more emphasized form, because feasting articulates important socio-economic aspects such as managing food resources, the generation and storage of surpluses, the articulation of systems of exchange and the consumption and/or display of the prestige goods.In order to advance in this line of research, we made a detailed study of the material assemblages (ceramic vessels, metallic elements and liturgical instruments) and performed an in depth analysis of those contexts (consumption spaces, storage spaces and certain graves) which have provided evidences associated with the ritual uses of food and drink.