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New insights into early medieval Islamic cuisine: Organic residue analysis of pottery from rural and urban Sicily

PloS one, 2021-06, Vol.16 (6), p.e0252225-e0252225 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
New insights into early medieval Islamic cuisine: Organic residue analysis of pottery from rural and urban Sicily
Author: Lundy, Jasmine ; Drieu, Lea ; Meo, Antonino ; Sacco, Viva ; Arcifa, Lucia ; Pezzini, Elena ; Aniceti, Veronica ; Fiorentino, Girolamo ; Alexander, Michelle ; Orecchioni, Paola ; Mollinari, Alessandra ; Carver, Martin O. H ; Craig, Oliver E
Hardy, Karen
Subjects: 11th century ; 12th century ; Agricultural commodities ; Analytical chemistry ; Archaeology ; Archaeology and Prehistory ; Biology and Life Sciences ; Ceramic materials ; Ceramics ; Chemical Sciences ; Citrus fruits ; Consumption ; Cookery ; Cooking ; Data analysis ; Editing ; Evaluation ; Food ; Funding ; Historic artifacts ; History ; Humanities and Social Sciences ; Jewish life & ethics ; Medicine and Health Sciences ; Medieval period ; Museums ; Paleoecology ; People and Places ; Physical Sciences ; Pottery ; Religion ; Religious aspects ; Reviews ; Rural areas ; Traditions ; Visualization ; Wines
Is Part Of: PloS one, 2021-06, Vol.16 (6), p.e0252225-e0252225
Description: Sicily, during the 9.sup.th -12.sup.th century AD, thrived politically, economically, and culturally under Islamic political rule and the capital of Palermo stood as a cultural and political centre in the Mediterranean Islamic world. However, to what extent the lifeways of the people that experienced these regimes were impacted during this time is not well understood, particularly those from lesser studied rural contexts. This paper presents the first organic residue analysis of 134 cooking pots and other domestic containers dating to the 9.sup.th -12.sup.th century in order to gain new insights into the culinary practices during this significant period. Ceramics from three sites in the urban capital of Palermo and from the rural town of Casale San Pietro were analysed and compared. The multi-faceted organic residue analysis identified a range of commodities including animal products, vegetables, beeswax, pine and fruit products in the ceramics, with a complex mixing of resources observed in many cases, across all four sites and ceramic forms. Alongside the identification of commodities and how they were combined, new light has been shed on the patterning of resource use between these sites. The identification of dairy products in calcite wares from the rural site of Casale San Pietro and the absence of dairy in ceramics from the urban centre of Palermo presents interesting questions regarding the role of rural sites in food consumption and production in Islamic Sicily. This is the first time organic residue analysis of ceramics has been used to explore foodways in a medieval multi-faith society and offers new pathways to the understanding of pottery use and resources that were prepared, consumed and combined, reflecting cuisine in different socio-economic environments within the pluralistic population of medieval Sicily.
Publisher: San Francisco: Public Library of Science
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1932-6203
EISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252225
PMID: 34106970
Source: PLoS (Open access)
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