FoodStore: Food Storage in the Late Fifth, Fourth, and Third Millennia BC in the Northern Fertile Crescent

Storing food has always been a basic need for semi-nomadic and sedentary people, representing both a risk-management strategy and a source of social power. In archaeological contexts, the ways in which food is stored is associated with a combination of ecological, technological, and social factors. 

FoodStore is an ongoing project centred on the investigation of features for food storage in south-eastern Türkiye and the Kurdistan region of Iraq in the late fifth, fourth, and third millennium BC, through both traditional macro-archaeological methods and micro-archaeological techniques. The goal of the project is to identify how past technological knowledges interacted with different landscapes and climates, and under various social conditions, to create and preserve diverse types of storage features.

* See the event poster: NMC April 22-Valentina Tumolo.pdf