Niesiołowski-Spano, Łukasz(Taylor & Francis Group, 2015)
The aim of the paper is to review the value and usefulness of the ethnic-markers of ancient societies, based on the assumption that certain populations practice certain eating and drinking habits. In other words, the conviction that some food and drink habits may be used as reliable tools for determining the ethnicities of ancient societies will be questioned. This argument is applied to the case of the Philistines, a population of Aegean or Aegeo- Anatolian origin, who settled in Palestine in the early twelfth century BCE....
The present article examines the effect of Lombard occupation of the Apennine Peninsula in the 6th century on everyday life of the local society; traditionally the event thought to usher in the early Middle Ages in Italy....