We are pleased to announce the publication of our new article just out in Environmental Archaeology:
“Agricultural Management and Culinary Culture in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Aegean: Archaeobotanical and Stable Isotope Insights from Region I, Xeropolis, Lefkandi”
Focusing on one of the largest non-palatial settlements in the central Aegean, the site at Xeropolis Lefkandi, our study combines plant remains with carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses to investigate the basis of its economy and the strategies developed within a period of changes in the socioeconomic and political equilibrium of the area after the collapse of the palatial societies.
Our results reveal changing cultivation regimes, shifting levels of manuring and a diverse, culturally specific cuisine that reflects both southern and northern Aegean connections. Together, these lines of evidence show how farming strategies, food practices and identity were closely intertwined in times of increasing socio-political stress.
Full paper as follows:
A. Livarda, G. Kotzamani, C. Diffey, D. Evely, D. Sabato, M. Lloyd & I. Lemos (2025): Agricultural Management and Culinary Culture in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Aegean: Archaeobotanical and Stable Isotope Insights from Region I, Xeropolis, Lefkandi, Environmental Archaeology, DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2025.258356
To access this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2025.2583561
This work was funded by HORIZON EUROPE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions [grant number H2020-MSCA-IF-2020-101024917]; and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [grant number PID2022-139907NB-I00].
