Commensality and Shared Space in the Context of Early State and Urban Development in Mesopotamia and Southwest Iran (Topoi C-III)

The project poses three main questions: (1) whether and how the processes associated with the emergence of early state and urban societies in Mesopotamia and southwestern Iran had an impact on commensal practices spatially and socially; (2) how commensality contributed to the production and transmission of collective identities; and (3) how special feasts related to quotidian commensality.