Ancestral Appetites - Food in Prehistory (Hardcover, New)

This book explores the relationship between prehistoric people and their food - what they ate, why they ate it and how researchers have pieced together the story of past foodways from material traces. Contemporary human food traditions encompass a seemingly infinite variety, but all are essentially strategies for meeting basic nutritional needs developed over millions of years. Humans are designed by evolution to adjust our feeding behaviour and food technology to meet the demands of a wide range of environments through a combination of social and experiential learning. In this book, Kristen J. Gremillion demonstrates how these evolutionary processes have shaped the diversification of human diet over several million years of prehistory. She draws on evidence extracted from the material remains that provide the only direct evidence of how people procured, prepared, presented and consumed food in prehistoric times.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Kristen J. Gremillion
Dimensions:	234 x 158 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	196
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-89842-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Prehistoric archaeology Promotions
LSN:	0-521-89842-0
Barcode:	9780521898423

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