The team cooked a whole pig and a chopped-up goat for more than 24 hours in the oven, which was sealed with stones and clay. Credit: Photo courtesy of Andrew McCarthy
Posted on 09/02/2015 11:31:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Before there was pottery in Cyprus, there was barbecue.
And in the spirit of the Stone Age, archaeologists on the Mediterranean island recreated a prehistoric pit feast this summer — feeding 200 people with pig and goat, slow-roasted underground — to test the cooking methods of Neolithic chefs.
A 9,000-year-old barbecue pit was recently discovered at Prastio Mesorotsos, a site in the Diarizos Valley outside of Paphos, which has been almost continuously occupied from the Neolithic era to the present. It took three years of excavations before archaeologists from the University of Edinburgh got to the bottom of the stone-lined, ash-covered pit, and only last summer could they say with some certainty that they were looking at an ancient oven. But the pit was so big — about 8 feet (2.5 meters) across and 3 feet (1 meter) deep — that Andrew McCarthy, director of the expedition, wasn't sure if cooking in it would actually work.
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The team cooked a whole pig and a chopped-up goat for more than 24 hours in the oven, which was sealed with stones and clay. Credit: Photo courtesy of Andrew McCarthy
a different site, I opted not to post this as a separate topic, kinda dull.
Threatened Cypriot archaeological site to be investigated by University of Leicester archaeologists
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=155988&CultureCode=en
nice picture:
Ancient Akrotiri project, Cyprus
https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/research/ancient-akrotiri/ancient-akrotiri-project-cyprus
The tough part was not slipping and falling into the giant container with the side of cole slaw.
Yes, dining back than was a community thing. Huge pots and serving containers.
This cannot possibly be true.
We have been informed repeatedly that BBQ was invented by black slaves in the American South, so obviously animal flesh was never consumed before that.
;’)
At least they understand the difference between grilling and barbequeing. ....Seems most advertisers and Yankees don’t know there’s a difference. ...So many ads show people grilling hot dogs or burgers in the back yard and refer to it as BBQing. ...So wrong.
Wars have consequences... Go eat your peas.
Jk
kalua pig?
Don’t you have the BBQ ping list?
Nah! Native Americans invented it in the Carribean Islands.
They barbecued all sorts of things, fish, reptiles, large American primates.
http://www.amazing-trinidad-vacations.com/cannibal-stories.html
I had neighbors in the LA area years ago who roasted pig in the ground just like this. Very delicious.
They did have a big backyard. LOL
Nothin' like whole-cooked hog.
As long as they didn’t have access to the sweet potato (pigbel), I’m sure the practice was somewhat long-lived and widespread.
Also, even where sweet potato was available, it was worth the risk.
Mmmmm...
There are more important differences/distinctions to know.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Long+Pig
(hence the best-known of the kosher food laws)
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