July 4, 2024

Approaches to the Archaeology of Food

Key Points

Archaeologists explore the complex challenges related to food and its cultural significance.
The seminars focused on how food impacts social structures and environmental interactions in archaeology.
Analysis involved discussions on integrating food studies into broader archaeological frameworks and methodologies, pushing disciplinary boundaries and innovation for better insights into past societies and their habits around food consumption and production, soundly reflecting timeframes from ancient to modern contexts.

Abstract

The author, with Mark Nesbitt, was organiser of a pioneering series of seminars on Archaeology and Food held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, early in 1996. We invited her to convert her opening address into an essay for PPC, to give our readers an idea of how archaeologists, on the eve of the next millennium, view the challenges and opportunities which confront them in dealing with all the manifold aspects of food.

Bookmark

Approaches to the Archaeology of Food

Key Points

Abstract

Cite This Study

Also Consider

Also Consider