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Food Culture and Identity in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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Food Culture and Identity in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Series: British Archaeological Reports International Series
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In the last twenty years historians and social scientists have seen
a veritable explosion of research into food and its consumption and
social context. And yet archaeology has been slow to catch on. This
is all the more surprising since the 'bread and butter' of
archaeology are the residues of food preparation and consumption -
animal bones, pottery and other containers, cooking places and
other technologies of preparation, plant remains (micro and macro),
landscapes and settlements, grave goods, etc., etc. This volume of
papers arises out of a conference held in Sheffield in 1999,
organised jointly by The Prehistoric Society and the Sheffield
University Archaeology Society, on 'Food, Identity and Culture in
the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age'. The aim was to bring together
the different archaeological interests - from archaeological
science and humanities perspectives - in food as cultural
artefact/ecofact, to examine the potential of the new and
developing scientific techniques for reconstructing prehistoric
food habits, and to foster an integrated approach to the
archaeology of food regardless of different researchers'
specialisms.The 12 papers in this volume include: (1) Food, culture
and identity: an introduction and overview; (2) Explaining the
dietary isotope evidence for the rapid adoption of the Neolithic in
Britain; (3) In the kinship of cows: the social centrality of
cattle in the earlier Neolithic of southern Britain; (4) Animals
into ancestors: domestication, food and identity in Late Neolithic
Orkney; (5) Early Neolithic diets: evidence from pathology and
dental wear; (6) The use of dental microwear to infer diet and
subsistence patterns in past human populations; (7) You are where
you ate: isotopic analysis in the reconstruction of prehistoric
residency; (8) Diet and culture in southern Britain: the evidence
from Yarnton; (9) Dairying, dairy products and milk residues:
potential studies in European prehistory; (10) Neolithic and Early
Bronze Age 'food' from northern Greece: the archaeobotanical
evidence; (11) Changing paradigms: food as a metaphor for cultural
identity among prehistoric fisher-gatherer-hunter communities of
northern Europe; (12) Mead, chiefs and feasts in later prehistoric
Europe.
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