Böcker av Karen Mutton

Australian researcher Karen Mutton brings us her latest research on the origins of various popular foods, discussing the mysterious origins of food from around the world in chapters dedicated to the various cultures. Mutton examines Neolithic bronze and iron age agriculture in China and discusses the wonders of fermentation, presenting the world's oldest brewery, found in Egypt. She discusses ancient irrigation in Mesopotamia, Persia and Peru, and reveals her findings on Roman food technologies. Mutton examines food being used as medicine in China, Greece and Rome, and discusses bread as the staff of life. Mutton shares the oldest recipes in the world from Mesopotamia, and tips from ancient cookbooks from Rome and Arabia. The ancient spice trade comes to life, as do the ancient agricultural gods and goddesses. Chapters include: The Neolithic Revolution; Natufian Culture; Vinca Culture; Crops, Animals and Food Production; Fermentation; Pottery; Mesopotamia; Sumerians & Akkadians; Babylonians; Assyrians; Neo-Babylonians; Persian Empire; Hittites; Phoenicians; Israel/Palestine; Arab Islamic Empire; Egypt; West/Southern Africa; Ethiopia; Central & Subsaharan Africa; Ancient Britons & The Celts; Scandinavia; Ancient Greece; Crete; Mycenaeans; Classical Greeks; Pottery; Greek Agricultural Mythology; Hellenistic; Empires; The Etruscans; Republican Rome; Indus Valley; Vedic India; Gupta India; Sri Lanka; Indonesia; Spice Island Trade; Thailand; Vietnam; Cambodia; Chinese Crops & Cuisine; Korea; Japan; Papua New Guinea; Lapita Culture; Hawaii; Australia; Olmecs & Mayans; The Aztecs; South America- Andean Highlands; Coastal Regions Of Peru; Amazonia; North America; more.

Subterranean Realms is a unique book that surveys underground and rock cut structures created in the past. It is the third book in Mutton's trilogy on mysterious realms, the others being Sunken Realms and Water Realms. We know who built some of these astonishing and mysterious structures, but others were built by unknown civilizations in prehistory for reasons that are debated among researchers. Some subterranean structures may have been built for initiation ceremonies or perhaps for acoustic reasons, or both. Mutton discusses such interesting sites as: Derinkuyu, an underground city in Cappadocia, Turkey that housed 20,000 people; Roman catacombs of Domitilla; Palermo Capuchin catacombs; Alexandria catacombs; Paris catacombs; Maltese hypogeum; Rock-cut structures of Petra; Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae; Elephanta Caves, India; Lalibela, Ethiopia; Tarquinia Etruscan necropolis; Hallstatt salt mine; Beijing air raid shelters; Japanese high command Okinawa tunnels; more. There are tons of illustrations in this fascinating book!

"Surveys water management and technologies in ancient societies. From the flushing toilets of ancient Crete to the qanats of Persia, aqueducts of Rome, cascading tank systems of Sri Lanka and the great baths of the Indus Valley to the eel traps of southern Australia, ancients on all continents were managing water in unique ways ... We need to appreciate the ingenious methods of our ancestors in order to preserve our precious drinking water for future generations"--Publisher marketing.