Pre-Columbian foodways : interdisciplinary approaches to food, culture, and markets in ancient Mesoamerica / John Edward Staller, Michael Carrasco, editors.

Volume originated from a session, "The Role of Sustenance in the Feasts, Festivals, Rituals and Every Day Life of Mesoamerica," held during the 40th annual Chacmool Conference, "Eat Drink and Be Merry : the Archaeology of Foodways," hosted by the Chacmool Archaeological Association and the University of Calgary, Dept. of Archaeology, Nov. 10-12, 2007, Calgary, Alta. Cf. p. 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pre-Columbian Foodways in Mesoamerica / John E. Staller, Michael D. Carrasco -- Part I. Agriculture and Social Complexity: The Roles of Feasting and Ritual Economies -- Ethnohistoric Sources on Foodways, Feasts, and Festivals in Mesoamerica / John E. Staller -- Development of Agriculture in Prehistoric Mesoamerica: The Linguistic Evidence / Cecil H. Brown -- The Pastoral Niche in Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica / Jeffrey R. Parsons -- The Drink Mescal: Its Origin and Ritual Uses Mari / Carmen Serra, Carlos Lazcano A -- Forming Mesoamerican Taste: Cacao Consumption in Formative Period Contexts / Rosemary A. Joyce, John S. Henderson -- Salt Production and Trade in Ancient Mesoamerica / Eduardo Williams -- The Dirt on Food: Ancient Feasts and Markets Among the Lowland Maya / Bruce H. Dahlin, Daniel Bair, Tim Beach, Matthew Moriarty, Richard Terry -- Part II. Ethnography, Ethnobotany, Language and Diet -- An Epigraphic Analysis of Classic-Period Maya Foodstuffs / Kerry Hull -- Sweet Cacao and Sour Atole: Mixed Drinks on Classic Maya Ceramic Vases / Dmitri Beliaev, Albert Davletshin, Alexandre Tokovinine -- Prehistoric Chronology of the Common Bean in the New World: The Linguistic Evidence / Cecil H. Brown -- Death and Chocolate: The Significance of Cacao Offerings in Ancient Maya Tombs and Caches at Copan, Honduras / Cameron L. McNeil -- Feasting with Foam: Ceremonial Drinks of Cacao, Maize, and Pataxte Cacao / Judith Strupp Green -- Corn, Colanders, and Cooking: Early Maize Processing in the Maya Lowlands and Its Implications / David Cheetham -- Photographies and Biographies: The Role of Food in Ritual and Identity as Seen Through Life Histories of Selected Maya Pots and People / Linda Howie, Christine D. White, Fred J. Longstaffe -- Dietary Diversity in the Upper Belize River Valley: A Zooarchaeological and Isotopic Perspective / Carolyn R. Freiwald -- Power Plants: Paleobotanical Evidence of Rural Feasting in Late Classic Belize / David J. Goldstein, Jon B. Hageman -- Food and Feasting in the Zona Maya of Quintana Roo / E.N. Anderson -- All Maize Is Not Equal: Maize Variety Choices and Mayan Foodways in Rural Yucatan, Mexico / John Tuxill, Luis Arias Reyes, Luis Latournerie Moreno, Vidal Cob Uicab, Devra I. Jarvis -- Maya Foodways: A Reflection of Gender and Ideology / Amber O'Connor -- Part III. Food as Metaphor: Mythology and Iconography -- The Axolotl as Food and Symbol in the Basin of Mexico, from 1200 BC to today / Carolyn E. Tate -- Topophilia: A Tool for the Demarcation of Cultural Microregions: The Case of the Huaxteca / Lorenzo Ochoa -- This World and Beyond: Food Practices and the Social Order in Mayan Religion / Brian Stross -- Maize Was Their Flesh: Ritual Feasting in the Maya Highlands / Allen J. Christenson -- From Field to Hearth: An Earthly Interpretation of Maya and Other Mesoamerican Creation Myths / Michael D. Carrasco -- The Flesh of God: Cosmology, Food, and the Origins of Political Power in Ancient Southeastern Mesoamerica / David Freidel and F. Kent Reilly III.

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