| Contents |
Ancient Foodways: Integrative Approaches to Understanding Subsistence and Society / C. Margaret Scarry, Dale L. Hutchinson, and Benjamin S. Arbuckle -- Feasting and Politics -- Feeding the Ancestors? Ritual Economy and the Origins of Animal Management in Neolithic Southwest Asia / Benjamin S. Arbuckle -- Food, Inequality, and Conquest in Warring States China / Elizabeth Berger, Liang Chen, Jing Shao, Zhanwei Sun -- Commensal Politics and Identity Performance at Azoria an Archaic City on Crete / C. Margaret Scarry, Donald C. Haggis, Margaret S. Mook, Rodney D. Fitzsimons, W. Flint Dibble, and Christina Tsoraki -- Ritual, Feasting, and Community-Building on the Copacabana Peninsula, 1000 BC-AD 200 / Sara L. Juengst, Dale L. Hutchinson, Sergio Chávez, Stanislava Chávez, Theresa Schober, Lynette Norr, and Abigail Bythell -- Sacrifice, Ritual, and Ancestors -- Food for the Dead and the Living: Contextualizing Biological Remains from Late Classic Maya Structures at K'axob, Belize / Maia Dedrick, Patricia A. McAnany, and Shannon Vance -- From Subsistence to Sacrifice: Dogs for Dinner and Ritual in Classic Period Zapotec Communities / Heather A. Lapham, Gary M. Feinman, and Linda M. Nicholas -- A Mississippian Example of Harvest Renewal Ceremonialism / Erin Stevens Nelson, Ashley Peles, and Mallory A. Melton -- Edible Metaphors and the Mississippian Phenomenon: A Case Study from the Black Warrior River Valley, Alabama, AD 1070-1250 / Rachel V. Briggs -- Diet, Landscape, and Health -- Late Archaic and Woodland Foodways and Landscapes in Tuckaleechee Cove, East Tennessee / Kandace D. Hollenbach -- Conflicted Landscapes: An Integrative Bioarchaeological and Archaeobotanical Study of the Forbush Creek Site, North Carolina / Steph M. Berger and Anna F. Graham -- Dietary Pathologies and Isotope Diversity in Imperial Rome (First to Fourth Centuries AD) / Kristina Killgrove and Andrea N. Acosta -- Integrative Methods -- Employing Local Food Resources for Dietary Reconstruction via Stable Isotope Analysis / Sophia C. Dent and Dale L. Hutchinson -- The Effects of Foodways Practices on Nutritional Availability / Sophia C. Dent, Dale L. Hutchinson, and Marissa W. Bruce -- Connecting the Present to the Past: How Collaborative Archaeology Can Inform Us About Ancient Foodways / Gabrielle C. Purcell. |
| Abstract |
"How archaeology can shed light on past foodways and social worlds Through various case studies, Ancient Foodways illustrates how archaeologists can use bioarchaeology, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, architecture, and other evidence to understand how food acquisition, preparation, and consumption intersect with economics, politics, and ritual. Spanning four continents and several millennia of human history, this volume is a comprehensive and contemporary survey of how archaeological data can be used to interpret past foodways and reconstruct past social worlds.This volume is organized around four major themes: feasting and politics; sacrifice, ritual, and ancestors; diet, landscape, and health; and integrative methods. Contributors weave together multiple threads of evidence relating to plants, animals, craft production, and human health and reconnect the material remnants with behaviors, practices, and meanings. The case studies show the varied and creative ways that multiple sources of evidence can be used to shed light on past foodways.Ancient Foodways demonstrates how environmental and cultural factors shaped past subsistence strategies and cooking practices and the role food played in shaping cultural identity and exchange networks, while also examining how food production methods can lead to environmental destruction and the detrimental role of dietary constraints on human health"-- Provided by publisher. |
