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food in prehistory

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An edition of Ancestral appetites (2011)

Ancestral appetites

food in prehistory

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"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 behavior 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"--Provided by publisher.

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Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Pages
182

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Hunting and gathering societies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Food, Food habits, Prehistoric peoples, Food preferences, History, Diet, Ancient History
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Ancestral appetites: food in prehistory
2011, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Ancestors. Our ancient heritage ; Our unique heritage
Beginnings. The Australopithecines and their kin ; Man the hunter, woman the gatherer ; Bones, butchery, and the scavenging hypothesis ; A closer look at the fossil record ; History in the body : evolutionary anatomy and molecular markers ; Cooking
Foraging. The Upper Paleolithic revolution? ; The Late Pleistocene world ; New tools, new tactics : the food quest in the Late Pleistocene
Farmers. The questions ; The natural history of agriculture ; The human factor : decisions and revisions ; Better living through chemistry ; Agriculture, adaptation, strategy, and tradition
Hunger. Food supply in a changing environment ; Hunger in nature ; Hunger and human societies ; Fighting hunger : culture and creativity
Abundance. Abundance in nature ; Surplus, sharing, and human socities ; The uses of abundance ; Abundance, diet, and health : the effects of social inequality ; Beyond storage and sharing : surplus as symbol
Contacts. Acceptance and dispersal of novel foods ; The spread of agriculture in prehistoric Europe ; Eating, drinking, and Roman expansion ; Peaches, cowpeas, melons, and hogs : old world foods in Southeastern North America ; The global reach of foodways
Extinctions. Man versus mammoth ; Invasion of the island snatchers ; Firestarters ; Chewing the scenery
Final thoughts. Nostalgia for the Pleistocene ; Hunger on a crowded planet ; The conservation conundrum ; Food, prehistory, and human nature.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references(pages 161-175) and index.

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New York
Copyright Date
2011

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Dewey Decimal Class
394.1/209012
Library of Congress
GN799.F6 G74 2011, GN799.F6G74 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 182 pages :
Number of pages
182

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25562760M
ISBN 10
0521898420, 0521727073
ISBN 13
9780521898423, 9780521727075
LCCN
2010044632
OCLC/WorldCat
672300094

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OL16977928W

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