Food, Culture and Identity in the Neolithic and Early Bronze AgeMichael Parker Pearson 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. |
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... dietary distinctions possible in skeletal material ( Stott et al . 1999 ) . Such temporality within individual dietary biographies may also be addressed by stable isotopic analysis , although the recent work has concentrated on cattle ...
... dietary practices ( Hillson 2000 ) . Many studies have demonstrated changes in dental morphology and pathology at the transition to agriculture in several world regions . From these studies some generalisations can be drawn concerning ...
... Dietary inferences through buccal microwear analysis of middle and upper Pleistocene human fossils . American Journal of Physical Anthropology 100 : 367-87 . Meadow , R.H. 1989. Osteological evidence for the process of animal ...